How We Built an AI Manga Studio with Google Gemini in a Week

We created this piece of content for the purposes of entering the Gemini Live Agent Challenge. #GeminiLiveAgentChallenge Enpitsu (鉛筆) — AI Manga Studio Created for the Gemini Live Agent Challenge · #GeminiLiveAgentChallenge The Idea Manga is one of the world's most expressive storytelling formats — but creating it requires years of artistic training. We wanted to build something that lets anyone with a story idea produce a real, illustrated manga with consistent characters and cinematic black-and-white panels. The result is Enpitsu (鉛筆 — Japanese for pencil ): a full AI manga studio powered by Google Gemini. You type a story idea, pick a genre, and Enpitsu generates a complete manga — script, character art, and illustrated panels — exported as a PDF. The Pipeline: Four Steps From Prompt to Manga Step 1 — Story Script The first step uses Gemini 2.5 Flash with structured JSON output. We pass the genre and story prompt and get back a full manga script: title, Japanese title, synopsis, cha