After Effects script panel that builds comic page layouts (koma-wari) as real comps, places your footage into the panels in reading order, and can re-cut a finished page. Windows only.
About AiBow Manga Koma
AiBow Manga Koma, at Aibow Manga Koma, is an After Effects script panel by AiBow Tools, sold through aescripts + aeplugins. It builds comic page layouts, called koma-wari in Japanese manga, as real After Effects comps.
You pick a style, the page size and the reading direction, and the panel shows six layouts. New batch gives six more, Mutate makes six variations of one you like, and a seed brings any batch back. With footage selected in the Project panel, Create page comp builds the page, with paper, one masked precomp per panel filled in reading order, a shape layer with every frame line, and a control null for line width and paper color.
A finished page can be re-cut. Pick a layout with the same panel count and click Apply layout to selected page. The masks and frame lines change, the footage is refitted to the new panels, and the panel reveal and camera tour follow. Footage you moved or scaled yourself is left as it is.
The four styles run from calm to action. Calm / Dialogue keeps panels straight and regular, Standard tilts them a little, Action adds strong slants, bleeds off the page edge and split panels, and Splash / Title makes big panels. Sliders for row slant, column slant, bleed, split panels and big panels adjust any style. Reading order can be right to left or left to right, and the reading-order numbers are guide layers that never render.
For motion comics, Add panel reveal animates every panel in turn, and Create camera tour makes a 16:9 comp that starts on the whole page, moves to each panel in reading order, holds and returns, with keyframes you can retime. Page formats are B5 and A5 manga pages, Social 4:5, Square, 9:16 and 16:9.
Manga Koma is a ScriptUI panel for After Effects 2026 and above, and the page marks it Windows only, on Windows 10 or 11. Its online license check needs the After Effects preference that allows scripts to write files and access the network. Version 1.0 was released on November 12, 2026.
Pricing: AiBow Manga Koma is listed at $24.99 on aescripts, with a special price of $18.99 until November 14, 2026. The free trial is limited to pages of up to 6 panels and a camera tour of the first 3 panels. Checked November 12, 2026 at https://aescripts.com/aibow-manga-koma/.
Pricing model: Paid
Features
- Six page layouts per click in four styles, Calm, Standard, Action and Splash
- Every panel is a masked precomp, filled with your footage in reading order
- Apply a new layout to a finished page and the footage is refitted to the new panels
- Add panel reveal animates the panels in reading order
- Create camera tour makes a 16:9 comp that visits each panel and returns to the page
- Right to left or left to right reading order, with guide-layer numbers that never render
- B5 and A5 manga pages, Social 4:5, Square, 9:16 and 16:9 formats
- Layouts can be saved as SVG
FAQs
Common questions about AiBow Manga Koma
