Turn Your Illustrations Into Manga
Your Characters Have Stories
Helping illustrators learn the skills behind making manga. And giving anyone with a story the tools to start creating their own.
Turn Your Illustrations Into Manga
Your Characters Have Stories
Helping illustrators learn the skills behind making manga. And giving anyone with a story the tools to start creating their own.
What Is Source? Manga Academy?
More Than Learning How to Draw Manga
Source? Manga Academy is an online manga-learning platform built to help creatorsturn ideas, characters, and illustrations into stories.
Whether you already draw, are creating your first character, or simply love manga and want to make your own, SMA gives you a place to take that next step.
Learn to think beyond the illustration. Start telling the story.
What Is Source? Manga Academy?
More Than Learning How to Draw Manga
Source? Manga Academy is an online manga-learning platform built to help creators turn ideas, characters, and illustrations into stories.
Whether you already draw, are creating your first character, or simply love manga and want to make your own, SMA gives you a place to take that next step.
Learn to think beyond the illustration. Start telling the story.
A New Generation of Creators Is Already Here
Great Characters Are Being Created Everywhere.
Every day, artists around the world are creating original characters, illustrations, and fan art. But a character does not have to stay inside a single image.
It can have a story.
It can have a world.
It can become a manga.
A New Generation of Creators Is Already Here
Great Characters Are Being Created Everywhere.
Every day, artists around the world are creating original characters, illustrations, and fan art. But a character does not have to stay inside a single image.
It can have a story.
It can have a world.
It can become a manga.
Creating Manga Is a Different Challenge
Drawing a Character Is One Thing. Telling Their Story Is Another.
A great illustration can capture one amazing moment.
Manga has to connect those moments.
It requires storytelling, pacing, storyboarding, panel composition, visual narrative, and an understanding of how a story moves from page to page.
For many artists, this is the hardest step:
“I can draw my character… but how do I turn them into a manga?”
That’s Where Source? Manga Academy Comes In
You Create the Characters. We Help You Tell Their Stories.
Source? Manga Academy gives creators a clearer way to understand how manga works.
Not just how manga looks, but how characters, panels, dialogue, pacing, and storytelling come together to create something readers want to follow.
That’s Where Source? Manga Academy Comes In
You Create the Characters. We Help You Tell Their Stories.
Source? Manga Academy gives creators a clearer way to understand how manga works.
Not just how manga looks, but how characters, panels, dialogue, pacing, and storytelling come together to create something readers want to follow.
From Illustrations to Stories.
From Stories to Global IP.
A character can become a manga.
A manga can grow into a world.
A world can become something much bigger.
Every Big Story Starts Somewhere.
SMA helps creators around the world develop their original ideas into stories and IP with the potential to reach global audiences.
Manga is our starting point.
Global IP is the bigger goal.
From Illustrations to Stories.
From Stories to Global IP.
A character can become a manga.
A manga can grow into a world.
A world can become something much bigger.
Every Big Story Starts Somewhere.
SMA helps creators around the world develop their original ideas into stories and IP with the potential to reach global audiences.
Manga is our starting point.
Global IP is the bigger goal.
Built in Japan. Open to the World
New Stories Can Come From Anywhere.
Manga may have grown from Japan, but its influence is now global.
SMA brings a Japanese manga-making expertise and perspective to creators around the world, encouraging them to create stories inspired by their own ideas, characters, cultures, and imagination.
We are not looking for everyone to create the same kind of manga.
We want to see what only you can create.
Built in Japan. Open to the World
New Stories Can Come From Anywhere.
Manga may have grown from Japan, but its influence is now global.
SMA brings a Japanese manga-making expertise and perspective to creators around the world, encouraging them to create stories inspired by their own ideas, characters, cultures, and imagination.
We are not looking for everyone to create the same kind of manga.
We want to see what only you can create.
Your Character & Ideas Could Be the Beginning of Something Bigger
Already an illustrator?
Start giving your characters stories.
Never made manga before?
Start with your first one.
Love manga and want to create?
You can create your manga too.
Start Your Journey With Source? Manga Academy
