Manga Panel Layout is the visual grammar of Japanese comics — the page-as-cinema logic of Tezuka, Toriyama, and Oda. It is stripped-down ink on paper: pure black, paper white, and screentone gray, punctuated by shōnen red when a page absolutely demands color.

Its power is compositional. Panels are framed in thick black borders that shatter for climactic beats, speed lines radiate from a focal point, and onomatopoeia are drawn rather than typeset. The discipline of monochrome forces every element — line weight, gutter, halftone density — to carry narrative weight.