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toona
✓ verifiedFreemium

Beta AI toolbox for anime and manga creators covering image-to-video, colorizing, upscaling, and inbetween-frame generation.

36K visits/mo

Anime-focused AI art platform with many house models and a hologem credit system; free tier plus paid plans.

29K visits/mo
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AI Anime Generator
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free AI anime generator turning text and photos into anime characters, scenes and short videos, no signup.

116K visits/mo
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Neural Canvas
✓ verifiedPaid

Playful pay-per-comic web app that turns a chosen cast and story idea into a full-color AI comic PDF delivered by email.

6.3K visits/mo12K saves
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Ghibli Art AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

GPT-4o image generator for Ghibli and many other styles, with text-to-image, editing and paid plans from $6/mo.

24K visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (100 hologems, 50 daily bonus)
Pro: $10/mo (5,000 hologems/mo)
Ultimate: $25/mo (20,000 hologems/mo)

No public pricing

First-timer: $1.99 (8-page comic, one-time)
Single shot: $2.99 (16-page comic)
Director's cut: $5.99 (24-page comic)
Pro: $6/mo (300 credits, billed annually)
Ultra: $12/mo (1500 credits, billed annually)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Image-to-video generation
  • Manga colorization
  • Anime image and video upscaling to 4K
  • Frame interpolation up to 240fps
  • Inbetween frame generation
  • Background cut and fill
  • Motion painter for adding animation to stills
  • Many anime and semi-realistic image models
  • Tag-based prompt helper
  • Hologem credit system with a daily bonus
  • Style LoRAs and image variations
  • Community gallery and sharing
  • Image-to-image with adjustable parameters
  • Text-to-anime generation
  • Photo-to-anime conversion
  • Multiple anime styles
  • Character and scene design
  • Anime image-to-video
  • AI comic-book generation
  • Choice of characters and settings
  • Multiple art styles
  • PDF delivery by email
  • Pay-per-comic pricing
  • Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
  • Multiple art styles beyond Ghibli
  • Stylized text integration into artwork
  • Image editing, merging and background swaps
  • Action-figure, chibi-emoji and comic-strip generators
  • Watermark-free, private generations on paid plans
Use cases
  • Manga artists colorizing black-and-white pages
  • Animators generating inbetween frames
  • Creators upscaling old anime footage
  • Fans making viral character remix videos
  • Generating anime character art
  • Creating character sheets and variations
  • Exploring styles via the community gallery
  • Casual AI illustration
  • Creating anime characters
  • Turning selfies into anime
  • Building anime scenes
  • Anime social content
  • Create a custom AI comic quickly
  • Make personalized comic gifts
  • Experiment with different comic art styles
  • Creating Ghibli-style fan art
  • Designing comics, storyboards and coloring pages
  • Making avatars, stickers and social visuals
  • Product mockups and thumbnails
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