Free Manga Script Template for Google Docs (Screenplay Format)
This free template is for any writer or artist, professional or amateur, who wants to open a document and start writing immediately in a well-formatted screenplay document.
The document is correctly set to screenplay margins (1.5" left, 1" right/top/bottom) in Courier Prime 12pt.
This free manga script template also comes with a ready-to-go Mangaplay/Fountain++ script for the most commonly used page layouts.
What is the Mangaplay Format? It's Fountain++
The Mangaplay format is a plain-text markup built on top of Fountain, a widely used screenplay writing format. Fountain already works well for the creative phase, so rather than reinvent it, Mangaplay expands on it with pages and panels.
Fountain is typically dropped when nearing production for tools like Celtx, but for manga and comic scripting it's a natural fit. You write in a single text file using [TAGS] to describe how you want each panel to look, and it can be rendered as a screenplay, manga, or comic layout in seconds.
That means you can open a text file and write a manga script the same way a screenwriter writes a film. No special software. No proprietary file format. Just a plain-text document that any editor can open, including Google Docs.
What does MangaPlay Studio do with your script?
I built Mangaplay Studio because I needed it myself while writing SALARYMAN. I struggle seeing images when I close my eyes, to combat this I like going between a Storyboard and Screenplay to better get a feel for the pacing.
Mangaplay Studio is the first web app where you can drop your script into it and the tool will render it as pages with dialogue, action lines, sound effects and even let you download it as a Screenplay thanks to the hard work of the folks who made Fountain.
There are two ways to use it, either as the Web App or on the Chrome Extension that works directly inside of Google Docs. Open up an empty document, press the Mangaplay Button and you are good to go. Start writing the next big hit, you don't even have to credit me ;)
Both the Web App and Chrome Extension run entirely in your browser, no scripts or AI in sight. Your art stays in your browser.
Who made Mangaplay?
Me, Pistol Taeja, put some respekt on my name!
I am an independent creator, I want to make art and show it to you like a proud child to a parent.
There's a whole ass About Page here. Please be nice to me! Read my manga perhaps too?