Unite the world with stories
Unlock the emotional impact of stories through meaningful insights
Creators first
Every decision starts with the creator. Their success is our success.
Trust is everything
Your work is sacred. We earn trust through transparency and action.
Having fun with the process
Creation should be joyful. We build tools that make the journey as rewarding as the destination.
Data-driven evidence
Instinct guides, but evidence decides. We ground every insight in real data.
Dream big
Audacious goals push the boundaries of what's possible for creators everywhere.
Sean Hora
CEO & Co-founder
Serial entrepreneur with a previous exit in 2022, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021, Waseda University graduate, and Japanese-English bilingual. Favorite manga: "Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo" and "Asari-chan".
Joe Williams
CTO & Co-founder
7+ years in infrastructure and backend engineering. Built systems serving 250M+ users at Indeed and analytics platforms at Rakuten Pay. OSS contributor. Favorite manga: Death Note and Akira.
Services
What we build
AI tools for manga: editor-grade feedback on drafts, help writing and storyboarding, video from finished pages, and the contests and publishers creators need to know about.
m2w.ai
AI manga review
Upload a storyboard or finished pages and get the five M2W scores plus concrete fixes in as little as 5 minutes — any stage, any language.
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In the app
AI Story Builder
Develop your premise, world, characters, arcs, and dialogue with an AI co-writer — then export your story bible in any of six languages.
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Subscriber feature
Custom Editor
Build the editor you want to be read by — set its focus, taste, and tone, then talk through your pages with an editor that remembers your series.
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In the app
Video Studio
Turn a chapter into a narrated vertical short for TikTok, X, YouTube or Instagram — a script written from your pages, voices, music and sound, and an AI director to change any shot on request.
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m2w.ai/contests
Manga contests
Every ongoing manga and drawing contest — organizer, jury, prize, and deadline at a glance. Updated weekly.
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m2w.ai/publishers
Publisher directory
Manga and webtoon publishers and magazines accepting submissions — genres, formats, deadlines, and how to apply. Updated daily.
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Build the future of manga with us
M2W is a small team in Tokyo building editor-grade AI feedback and talent-discovery tools for manga creators. We care about craft, about creators, and about shipping.
Tools creators actually trust
Every manga starts as a rough draft. We help creators get from storyboard to finished pages faster, with feedback that reads like a great editor's.
Editor-grade feedback
Structured, visually grounded reviews of storyboards and drafts: pacing, panel flow, dialogue density and readability.
Vision and language models
Detection models tuned on manga to find panels, bubbles and characters, paired with models that reason about visual storytelling.
Talent discovery
Helping exceptional creators get noticed early, wherever they are in the world, by the publishers looking for them.
Small team, high standards
Own it end to end
Everyone takes problems from idea to production. Fewer handoffs, more impact.
Ship to real creators
We put work in creators' hands early and let their feedback decide what comes next.
Craft over volume
We would rather build one thing creators love than ten they tolerate.
Tokyo-rooted, global by default
We work across Japanese and English, close to the manga industry and to creators everywhere.
Exceptional people, not job titles
We don't post fixed openings. If you are great at one of these, or something we haven't thought of yet, we want to hear from you.
Tell us what you'd build
No forms, no cover-letter templates. Send us a short email with:
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A little about you
Who you are and what you're great at, in a few lines.
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Work you're proud of
Links to code, papers, a portfolio, manga, anything that shows your craft.
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What you'd build here
The problem at M2W you would most want to take on.