Yonkoma Generator
4 panels. 起承転結. The hardest format.

Yonkoma (四コマ) is the Japanese 4-panel comic format. It's used for newspaper strips, manga magazine fillers, and web comic dailies. Yonkoma typically follows Kishōtenketsu story structure — setup, development, twist, conclusion — across its four panels.

Kishōtenketsu (起承転結) is a Japanese narrative structure: Ki (introduction), Shō (development), Ten (twist), Ketsu (conclusion). It's the natural fit for yonkoma — one beat per panel, four panels per strip. The generator's script writer breaks your story into these four roles explicitly so you can see and edit each beat before rendering.

Yes — yonkoma is essentially the Japanese form of the newspaper strip. The same 4-panel structure, the same constraint, the same comedy-or-vignette intent. Western newspaper strips don't follow Kishōtenketsu strictly, but the 4-panel rhythm is the same. The generator works for either tradition.

Classical yonkoma is vertical — four panels stacked top to bottom, reading down a single newspaper column. Modern yonkoma webcomics often use horizontal layout for desktop reading. The panels are rendered independently as PNGs; you arrange them vertically, horizontally, or in a 2×2 grid via the comic-page-layout tool.

Faster than any other format the generator supports — 60–90 seconds typically. The script breakdown is fast (4 panels, low complexity), each panel renders in 20–30 seconds, and there's not much editing needed because the format is so tightly constrained. A daily-yonkoma workflow is practical: write the strip on the train, render on arrival.

Yes. Upload or generate a character reference once, save it to your library, and the same characters appear in every strip you make afterwards. Useful for daily yonkoma series where the cast is the appeal — readers come back because they know the characters.