Type a prompt or upload a reference image, then pick the Anime visual style. MakeAIVideo renders every scene in coherent anime style with narration, captions, and music built into the same pipeline, then exports a watermark-free 1080p MP4.
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A real render from the same pipeline that ships the Anime preset.
Anime style, held across every scene
Anime is one of 15 visual styles, and you pick it before the render is planned, so every AI-generated scene is drawn in the same aesthetic from the first shot to the last. Describe the anime scene in a line or add reference images: the anime look is part of how each scene is generated, not painted on afterwards.
Visual style
Aspect ratio
9:16
TikTok / Reels
1:1
Square
16:9
YouTube
Captions
Word-by-word, auto-styled
Background music
Calm
1080p MP4, no watermark
DownloadHow it works
Anime sits alongside Cinematic, Claymation, and 12 other visual styles in the preset picker. Selecting it up front tells MakeAIVideo to render every scene in coherent anime style rather than mixing looks between beats. Switch presets later if you want a different aesthetic; the setting travels with the whole render, not one scene.
Describe your anime story in one line and MakeAIVideo drafts the beats, casts the shots and renders each one in anime style. Add reference images (a character sheet, a keyframe) to guide the look. To animate a single anime still instead, image to video turns it into a 5 or 10 second clip that keeps the source aesthetic.
Every beat of the anime story becomes an anime scene, with a natural AI narrator reading the script and word-by-word captions timed to the audio. Add background music if you want it and it ducks under the voice. If you don't want narration, turn it off; the anime visuals still render clean without it.
A watermark-free 1080p anime MP4 lands in your library, ready to post to YouTube, TikTok, Reels, or a client folder. Open the editor to re-roll a single scene, restyle the captions, or swap the voice if a beat lands off; the anime preset is preserved across regenerations.
On the create screen
Describe the anime scene, pick the Anime style and your aspect ratio, and choose AI video as the footage, so every scene is generated in the style rather than matched to filmed stock clips. Hit generate and the finished anime MP4 lands in your library. Want your own words read out? Paste them into script to video. For a narrated video in a non-anime look, start from text to video.
Footage
Real footage
$Real filmed clips matched to each line of your script
AI video
$$$Every scene generated from scratch, fully original
Voiceover
Narrate this video
An AI voice reads the script out loud
Background music
Pick music
No music
Generate with AI
Describe a track, ready in ~10 seconds
Estimated cost
~45 credits Example
All included
The Anime style, text and reference-image input, voice, captions, optional music and a 1080p export come with every render, at 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1. Animating a single anime still instead? Use image to video.
If a scene lands off, regenerate just that scene in the editor, usually in a few minutes. The Anime style carries over, and edits save automatically.
Scene 2
Edits save automatically
Narration
ExampleThey built thousand-ton ceilings without a single steel beam, and most of them are still standing.
Regenerate this scene
New voice and visuals, usually 1-3 minutes.
1080p MP4
Export videoSave a character from a description or up to five reference photos, on any plan, and use it across every scene of a series.
Describe your character
ExampleA warm, confident presenter in her late twenties, soft studio light, cream knit sweater, looking straight at the camera.
Reference images
Optional, locks the face to look like these
Pick your portrait
Pick a voice
Warm Narrator
Calm, storytelling, perfect for explainer videos
Name & save
Name
Maya
11 caption styles, timed to the voice and burned into the export. Click any word in the transcript to fix a typo.
Clean, minimal, burned in
Edit transcript
Click any word to fix typos without re-rolling voice.
Scene #3
ExampleLight hitting your eyes left the sun eight minutes ago.
Scene #4
You are looking at the past, every single time.
Caption style
Edits save automatically
Export videoThe script, voice and captions come out in the language you pick, or in the language you write your anime idea in.
Your prompt
ExampleUn video de 30 segundos sobre por qué el pan sube en el horno.
Script, voiceover and captions follow it
Generate videoDownload the MP4 with SRT or VTT caption files, or send a share link. No watermark on any plan.
Download
MP4 video
The finished video, ready to post
SRT captions
Subtitle file for TikTok, YouTube, CapCut
VTT captions
Subtitle file for web video players
Share link
ExampleAnyone with this link can download the MP4, no account needed.
Beyond anime
Anime is one of 15 visual styles in the same picker, so the anime generator makes cartoon-style animated videos too. Choose AI video as the footage so every scene is drawn in the style, and one style runs from the first scene to the last. For videos in any look, the AI video generator starts from the same create screen.
Clean line work and expressive faces. The pick for story channels, fan fiction, character-led shorts and openers.
Bold outlines and flat colour, the closest style to a Western cartoon. Suits light explainers and family-friendly stories.
A handmade, stop-motion feel for product stories, recipes and anything that should feel warm rather than slick.
Soft painted scenes for calm narration: history, poetry, bedtime stories and mood pieces.
A drawn, unfinished look for how-to and education channels, where the idea matters more than polish.
A family-film 3D look, without building a single model or rig.
Before you render
Anime or cartoon, the style is set once for the whole render. Four questions settle it before you spend credits.
If viewers come back for a character, build the series around one: save it once and pick a style that suits a recurring cast, which is where Anime and the 3D look do well. If they watch for the message (a lesson, an explainer, a story told in voiceover), the script carries the video and a quieter style such as Watercolor or Pencil Sketch keeps attention on the words.
Pick the ratio before you generate: 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 16:9 for YouTube, 1:1 for feeds. Close-ups and bold outlines hold up on a phone screen; busy wide scenes need the 16:9 frame.
Switching style or model halfway through a series is the quickest way to lose a recognisable look. Pick one style, save the character, and keep the same AI scene model (MiniMax Hailuo by default, or Kling 2.6) for every episode.
MakeAIVideo makes finished narrated animated videos: script, voice, AI scenes, captions and music in one render. If you need rigged characters with hand-set mouth shapes, frame-by-frame control or a timeline you animate yourself, a traditional animation app is the better fit for that job.
Connect your AI agent
Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or any MCP client can draft the story for your next anime short without spending render credits, then post the finished video to your accounts when you are happy with it.
MCP, API and CLI are included on every plan.
Finished anime videos, straight from a one-line idea or a reference image.
Build a faceless YouTube or Shorts channel around an anime aesthetic without commissioning frame-by-frame animation. One line per episode, coherent anime style across every scene, watermark-free 1080p export ready for the upload queue.
Turn a written scene, a fanfic chapter, or an original character concept into an anime-style short. Paste the text into script to video; it narrates your words exactly and renders each beat in anime style.
Ship a 30 to 90 second anime-style short for TikTok, Reels, or the Shorts shelf. Vertical 9:16, word-by-word captions, background music ducked under narration; the whole thing renders in one pass.
Take a written pitch, a rough storyboard, or a set of key visuals into an anime-style animatic. Use the reel to sell an original series, a pitch deck, or a client brief without hiring a full animation team for the pilot.
Upload a single character sheet or keyframe and animate it into a 5 or 10 second anime clip. The motion keeps the source aesthetic, so the anime look you drew or generated upstream stays intact.
Generate a 5 to 15 second anime-style opener or bumper for a stream, podcast, or long-form video. Describe the opener in one line and get an anime clip back, ready to cut in front of your existing footage in any editor.
Best practices
The Anime preset changes how the whole render is planned, not just how each frame is filtered. Selecting it after generation means paying for a fresh render; setting it up front is free.
Anime is a family of styles, not one look. Adding words like 'shonen action', 'shojo pastel', '90s cel-shaded', or 'moody seinen' guides the model without needing a new preset. The more specific your reference, the tighter the render.
Consistency across scenes depends on the model getting the same details each time. 'A tall boy with silver hair, blue jacket, red scarf' repeated in each beat helps far more than one generic mention at the top of your description.
A saved character locks a description in one place and applies it across every scene automatically, so you don't restate it per beat. Available on every plan; useful for series-style projects.
9:16 vertical for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok; 16:9 for the main YouTube page and TVs; 1:1 for Instagram feed. Anime framing (close-ups, low angles, action panels) reads very differently across ratios, so pick the crop first.
If a single beat lands off, open the editor and regenerate just that scene. The Anime preset is preserved on the re-roll so the style stays coherent across the sequence.
Image to VideoAnimate a still into anime motion.
Prompt to videoA narrated video in any style, from one line of text.
AI video generatorEvery way MakeAIVideo makes a video, anime or not.
Script to VideoYour own words, read out over anime scenes.
Faceless YouTube ChannelRun an anime story channel without a face.
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The Anime style is on every plan. AI video scenes use more credits than real footage, so pick the monthly allowance that matches how often you post, and add a pack that never expires if a month runs over.
The cheapest way in, with every video mode included.
$9/month
or $90 a year, 2 months free
450credits a month
About 4 stock-footage videos
or about 1 AI cinematic video
30 seconds each, every month
For one creator posting every week.
$19/month
or $190 a year, 2 months free
1,000credits a month
About 10 stock-footage videos
or about 2 AI cinematic videos
30 seconds each, every month
Long-form, your branding and a team of three.
$29/month
or $290 a year, 2 months free
1,600credits a month
About 16 stock-footage videos
or about 3 AI cinematic videos
30 seconds each, every month
For teams and channels running at volume.
$49/month
or $490 a year, 2 months free
2,800credits a month
About 29 stock-footage videos
or about 6 AI cinematic videos
30 seconds each, every month
7-day free trial for new customers: $0 today, card required, 500 trial credits, and trial videos are capped at 10 seconds of script. Video counts are estimates for 30-second videos, rounded down. Plan credits refresh every billing month and do not roll over.
Every plan includes
Busy month? Top-up packs from $9: a one-time purchase, and the credits never expire. Compare plans and packs
Getting the anime look, keeping characters consistent, and what a series costs to run.
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Open the visual style picker before generating and pick the Anime preset. It sits alongside Cinematic, Claymation, and 12 other looks. Once selected, the whole render is planned in anime style: every scene, not just the first one.
Yes. Name it when you describe the scene: 'shonen action', 'shojo pastel', '90s cel-shaded', 'moody seinen', or a scene reference from a series you have in mind. The model interprets these cues on top of the Anime preset, so the style is coherent but leaning in the direction you asked for.
Two ways. First, a repeated description: repeat a tight character description ('tall boy with silver hair, blue jacket, red scarf') in each scene so the model has the same details to work from. Second, a saved character, available on every plan, locks the description once and applies it to every scene automatically.
Yes. Upload a character sheet, a keyframe, or an anime-style still on the image to video screen; MakeAIVideo animates it while preserving the source aesthetic so the anime look you drew or generated upstream carries through the motion.
16:9 widescreen for YouTube and TVs, 9:16 vertical for TikTok, Reels, and the Shorts shelf, and 1:1 square for Instagram feed. Pick the ratio before generating so the anime framing (close-ups, low angles, action shots) is composed for the crop you'll actually post in.
No. Every anime render you export is a watermark-free 1080p MP4, yours to post or license anywhere. Watermark removal is not gated behind a higher tier.
For an ongoing anime series, start from a monthly plan sized to your output: Plus gives 1,600 credits a month and Pro 2,800. If a month runs over, the Stack pack at $39 adds 2,000 credits and Bulk at $79 adds 4,500 at the lowest cost per credit. Pack credits never expire, so buying bigger is not a commitment to a cadence. See MakeAIVideo plans and pricing.
Yes. A natural AI narrator reads the script and word-by-word captions are timed to the voice; background music is opt-in and ducks under the narration when you add it. Turn narration off if you want silent anime motion; the visuals still render clean.
Yes. Anime videos you render are yours to monetise on YouTube, TikTok, Reels, and to use in client work. See the full terms.
Nothing is charged automatically and nothing is lost. Your account and finished anime videos stay exactly as they are. Your plan's allowance refreshes on your next billing date, or buy a top-up pack whenever you want to generate sooner.
Yes. Anime is one of 15 visual styles in the same picker. For a cartoon look, pick Comic Book, Claymation, Watercolor, Pencil Sketch or the 3D animated style, choose AI video as the footage, and every scene renders in that style. One style applies to the whole render; switch it and render again to compare.
For narrated animated videos, yes. Describe an idea or paste a script, pick an animation style such as Anime, and MakeAIVideo writes or reads the script, voices it, generates every scene in that style and adds captions and any music you pick. It is not a rigging tool: there are no hand-set mouth shapes or frame-by-frame keyframes.
AI scenes use MiniMax Hailuo by default, and Kling 2.6 is the alternative you can select. Pick one and keep it for a whole anime series, together with one saved character, so the look stays consistent from episode to episode.
Plans from $9 a month, with a credit allowance that refreshes every billing month.
