Ok, hier mal ne Deutsche Review zum Programm:

Ich hab mir vor einiger Zeit die Demo von ComiPO geholt gehabt und fand das Konzept und die Idee dahinter klasse. Da meine eigenen Zeichnungen eher an 5te Klasse als an 27 Jahre erinnern, war es für mich ein kleines nettes Spielzeug.

Als das Programm nun im Sale war, hab ich zugeschlagen. Für den vollen Preis hätte ich es mir NIE geholt!
Warum?

Ok fangen wir mit dem positiven Dingen an:
- man kann 3D Charaktere platzieren und sie in verschiedene Posen setzen, Gesichtsausdruck verändern oder Gegenstände aufsetzen bzw. in die Hände drücken.
-- Soweit sogut - aber die Möglichkeiten sind begrenzt. Standartauswahlen sind sehr sehr limitiert - aber man kann durch .obj oder .mqo Dateien erweitern. Die Möglichkeit .pmd (also Datein von MikuMikuDance) zu convertieren und zu importieren sind eine kleine Hilfe um etwas mehr Vielfalt reinzubringen.

- Panels, Spezaileffekte und 3D Objekte
-- Alles vorhanden und dank importfunktion kann man eigene Dinge leicht und schnell mit einbringen

- Export
-- Sowohl einzelne Bilder als auch ganze Comics können als PNG / PDF / JPEG oder Tweet an Twitter exportiert werden.

- DLCs
-- Da die Möglichkeiten der eigenen Charakterentwicklung sehr begrenzt sind, liegt es nahe sich die DLCs zu kaufen. Leider sind diese nicht gerade billig und alles in allem ist man gleich mal 150 Euro los wenn man sich die ganzen Pakete kauft. Dazu ist zu bedenken, dass man in der Steam Version auch nur die Steam DLCs kaufen kann.

- Aktualisierung
-- Die Steam Version hängt der orginal JPN Version um einige Updates hinterher. Angekündigt wurde aber, dass das Team sich bemüht dies bald möglichst auf einen Gleichstand zu bringen!


Nun zu den schlechten Dingen:

- sehr limitiert
- keine export möglichkeit der Charaktermodele
- keine Modifikationen wie Brustgröße oder Körpergröße (Kinder usw.)
- keine Hautfarben
- Modifikationen an Haaren und dergleichen geschieht nur über zusätzliche Programme
- Freies Posen nicht möglich - Posen sind fest vorgegeben

Alles in allem macht ComiPO wirklich Spaß! Sollte es wieder mal in Sale sein und man hat wirklich Spaß an kleinen Comics (und regt sich nicht über die vielen Hater auf) - sollte man definitiv zuschlagen!

8/10 Punkten!

jetst wo es geht und keine abstürze mehr hatt ist es echt super und sehr sehr empfeldend .

sehr schade aber das man sehr wenig kleidung hatt!
und wen man am strand eine aufname macht das man nur in schuhlklamotten rumleuft -.-

ich fände es toll wen man auch kostenlosse dlc bekäme und mehr friesuren ! da das viel ausmacht.

* kauft es euch wen es runtergesetzt ist !
* tut mir leid wegen dem deutsch ich lärne noch da ich nicht von hier binn !

It's a fine program with many limitations, but may not be useful for everyone, here's an extended review for the potential costumer and hopefully feedback for the devs.

ComiPo by it's own grounds is very limited, you can't edit the character's height, proportions, width, etc. so you'll never see old people looking old, nor a younger character looking younger from the rest, so you've got all cookie cutter models, you can't even adjust parameters such as eye size and such (I wanted to adjust the chin and cheek width so badly but I can't).

There's not many customization options, there's some very limited set of accsesories and hair styles, so the combinations end up very limited, you can't customize the colors of items or clothing either (altough there's some very nice filters for the final images), so far it seems like there's no in-game option to change the character's skin colours.

The DLCs barely add anything to the mix, I bought a bundle, I think it contained 2 or 3 DLCs and when I used the program it felt as if I didn't had any DLCs, as they are pretty missleading telling you they offer a two digit amount of clothing each, but in the end it's just 1-2 clothes palette swapped, if they allowed you to recolor the clothing it would be very helpful and add many possibilities, but as it is, the DLC is good to have but not a must buy.

Now, with all this said, you may be wondering why I recommend this program.

To me it's helpful, I like to draw to relax, I use CSP, but the dummies included (on CSP) are extremely hard to pose (altough more versatile), but it consumes A LOT of time to get the desired pose and angle to me at least, so I prefer to use this, make a vanilla character, pose it as I need, convert to png and use as reference on CSP, on the downside, even when there are a lot of poses here, camera angles and such (which btw is very fast compared to CSP's), they arn't very flexible, you can rotate the head and such, but (may be a newb mistake here, so I apologize if I'm mistaken, I'll make sure to edit if I find out later on) it seems like you can't rotate hands or other body parts.

With that said, I think the devs can have a very nice and versatile program if they work on it, specially the customization options, Steam workshop for this would be awesome to allow people to upload their models and such.

To the costumer: if you want a quirky program to have a giggle and such, this may be for you, if you need some quick reference dummies like me, this works as well, but if you're looking for something serious to do comics and such, you may not find what you're looking in here (mainly the customization, it's so limited, otherwise the filters are awesome).

To the devs: I think the hardest part is done (the core software), just add more customization options (body proportions and clothing), more interactions betwen models, more hair, and accesories and such and you'll have a solid program backed by a clean and intuitive interface, just stop with the DLCs please as they barely add anything, they're quite expensive and may be overwhelming to the new users, unless you plan to add more to the current DLCs so they're more worthy of buying and owning, as it is, it's just not worth it.

Also some glitches need to be fixed, it's kind of silly that firefox and ComiPo can't co-exist without comipo crashing.

I hope this review helps potential costumers with their purchase and the devs on improving the experience so we can get a better product.

Cheers!

---2021 updated reivew---

Because of the overwhelmingly negative reviews that criticize this app for unfair reason, I'm gonna recap some of the pros & cons here:

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MANGA MAKER COMIPO
-MMC is specifically designed to help creating 4-koma gag comic, including its DLC contents. Thus, you get access to a large amount of character models with fixed clothes setting and a limited amount of preset poses to mess around with. This app is definitely not aimed toward making complicated manga, so complex model interaction are out of the question (However, you can independently pose characters for editing later in Photoshop if you want).
-For the above reason, scenery and background are limited to 2D image, there's not much of 3D scenery included, though you're free to import custom ones. Background artists can, however, profit greatly from using the characters and props in a transparent page and then draw backgrounds later.
-The main app comes with limited models, thus you need the DLCs to make the most of this. Wait for a sale to grab them all if you can.
-If you strictly use MMC's assets (except the preset copyrighted characters), you can monetize the manga you created, which is great for small and indie mangaka wanting to quickly illustrate their ideas.
-Updates are slow and mostly fall behind Japanese version, but the current version is good enough with most of the important feature, such as skin color changing, available to Steam users.

RANT CORNER
MMC is a good app, but sadly it's owned by a company who doesn't know how to do business, and thus treated as a side project and doesn't receive some very URGENT updates it badly need, to function as a manga maker app. Devs, if you're reading this, PLEASE consider correcting these issues that have been going on for years, or at the very least, sell/outsource this app to someone else who cares:
-Model-dependent poses: It's bad enough that we have limited poses, but even more frustrating when certain poses are only available to certain model characters. Why can't a character "swim" if they don't wear swimsuit, why can't a character "warm up" if they don't wear Sport Uniform, is beyond me.
-Hard-rig hand model: Some are fine, but some badly need to separate the "item" from the "hand", like holding smartphone, holding guitar. We end up having no "hand-free" model of them, which severely limit creativity.
-Just Sell Us a Custom Pose DLC Already: At this point, I've completely given up on the updates for poses, and most people with negative reviews agree. All of this would've been easily resolved if there's a "Custom pose" DLC (even at $19.99 is fine), but somehow the devs don't want our money, they simply let MMC be bombarded with negative reviews when they could easily fix it.

Das Geld ist es wert.
Ein muss für jeden der Manga Und Anime mag :)

Okay here's the rub, this is NOT a Manga making program on its own. This is a tool to be used with other programs. Allow me to explain. This program is the equivalent of those wooden sketch mannequins some people can use to plan out the human form. You use this program to plan out your Manga panels. Your not going to take a picture of the mannequin and call it done. This is my little quick start guide on how to use this program and get what you want:

1) DON'T BUY THIS AT FULL PRICE! I got the Starter Pack for less than $20 some years back and it has everything you need for most any comic.
2) Follow the directions and set up your page lay out.
3) Make 'custom' actors that are the right sex and have the closest clothing your characters is going to wear. I often leave off hair unless I can sort of make a style similar to what I want the characters to have since its not hard to add it in later (see below)
4) Arrange in your speech bubbles and other do-dads, till your frame is mostly planned out but don't bother with text. Don't bother with backgrounds or any item your not using for spacial reference either.
5) Save the page once your happy with it and make sure to do it as an image file.
6) Load image file using Photoshop, GIMP, or your editor of choice and set the image as a middle layer.
7) Since the background is white use the magic wand tool to delete it and then start cutting out anything want to be on a different level.
8) Add your touches and make your comic. I like to trace over most of it and do my own color job but you can easily do quick two tone shading and make some easy comics. I also add my own hair and will redo the chins on some to give the face some deviation. Since you can set your actors to specific repeatable angles and poses its easy to make a library of parts over time and eventually have a more or less drag and drop system.

Sehr Geil Mann kan wirklich mit grosser sorgfalt, richtig geile szenen machen es macht auch richtig funn. von mir aus dürften es noch mehr posen sein, oder mehr gesichts ausdrücke die hald spezieller sind aber sonst 9/10 einfach top.!!!!

sehr sehr geiles ding alda :D

Let me start by saying this:
ALL THE REVIEWS ARE CORRECT, the software itself is VERY limited and if you're looking to make a professional-looking manga/comic then it's going to be a bad purchase for you!

When I was gifted this, I knew exactly what I wanted it for: References!
I'm not trying to make a manga with this, but it helps in drawing poses and details like hands (since you can change the angles of the 3D models, it is an ok software for that).

So, to make this short:
- Is it good enough to make a decent-looking manga? Not really, unless it's just as a quick joke for your blog/website.
- Is it good enough to HELP me draw an actual manga? It's not the best, but it's a nice tool to have! But there are other 3D modeling/posing softwares that have a lot more options.
- Is it worth the price? If it's 75% off or a gift, sure!

I recommend this software but only considering what I just wrote on this review.
But please, if you're considering buying it, read the most reviews as possible and maybe even watch some tutorials on youtube so you can see the software in action!
Make an informed purchase!

Der Maker ist für den Umfang den er hat meiner Meinung nach total überteuert. Im Sale kann man aber beruhigt zuschlagen, denn das Teil ist echt witzig! Superleicht zu bedienen, man braucht keine Anleitung stumpfes durchklicken und mitdenken reicht. :D