Turn a Character You Made in ChatGPT into Manga

Collect the notes from your chat

First, gather the scattered details into one text. Asking ChatGPT to "write this character's profile with Name, Age, Appearance and Personality fields" gives you something easy to import.

Use a label and a colon per field ("Name: Mina", "Age: 17"). Appearance (hair, eyes, clothes) matters most for the reference sheets later.

From notes to manga

1. 1Paste and preview (free, no sign-up)

   On bun-cho.work/en/import, open "Paste a Story Bible", paste the notes with the headings Synopsis, Characters and Worldbuilding, and press Convert. The preview shows characters and world notes separately so you can confirm they were read correctly.

   

2. 2Import them as character notes in the Studio

   Save to the Studio, or in a work's editor open the character panel and choose "Import character notes". Fields such as name, age and personality are read in a free preview, and the original text is kept as a note.

3. 3Check against your manuscript

   If you also have chapters written with ChatGPT, fix age, color and name slips first with the importer's check results. In the Studio, "Find contradictions between sheets and manuscript" lists mismatches with links to the sections (it uses AI, so you see an estimate first).

   

4. 4Create and lock reference sheets

   In the character panel of the manga Create tab, make reference sheets (face, full body, 3/4) and lock the one you like. Locked characters keep the same face, hair and clothes in every panel.

5. 5Make a four-panel strip or a page

   Open the chapter with the scene and turn it into a four-panel strip, or choose page format in the manga screen. You get three structure options for a strip; confirm the estimate before drawing and redraw only the panels you want.

   

Prefer to stay in the chat?

If you would rather not leave ChatGPT or Claude, connect the BunCho connector and make strips and pages inside the conversation. For a character you will draw again and again, importing into the Studio as above works better.

See also: Turn a ChatGPT or Claude chat into manga (connector)

Before you start

ChatGPT is a service of OpenAI. BunCho is not affiliated with OpenAI; this guide only describes how to finish characters made with it.

• Import only characters you created or have permission to use
• Don't base characters on real people or copy characters from other works
• Check the AI rules of the site where you will publish