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# AI Anime & Illustration Styles

"Anime style" is not one look, it is dozens. This guide holds one character across 16 anime and manga sub-styles, so the difference you see is the style, not the subject. Ghibli's soft watercolour worlds, shonen's high-energy lines, seinen's mature realism, webtoon's clean digital colour, noir manga's ink and screentone. Copy a prompt, swap in your character, and you have the look. Model-agnostic across Midjourney, GPT Image, Flux and Nano Banana.

Works in: Midjourney, GPT Image, Flux, Nano Banana, Stable Diffusion.

## How to use this skill

When the user asks for an image prompt in this style, compose one using the formulas and vocabulary below. Fill each slot with a concrete choice, then return the finished prompt. Prefer naming a real camera/lens, a light, and a colour or film treatment, which is what makes the output read as a real photograph rather than an AI render.

## Formulas

**The anime formula**
```
[character + action], in the [anime sub-style] style, [two signature traits], [studio or era, optional]
```
The signature traits stop the model averaging. For shoujo: 'sparkling eyes, soft pastels'. For seinen: 'realistic proportions, muted tones'. For manga: 'black and white, screentone shading'.

## Worked prompt examples

_Naming the studio_
```
A young woman with windswept hair, anime character, upper body, in the Studio Ghibli style, soft painterly watercolour backgrounds, gentle warm colours, hand-drawn
```

_Modern cel-shaded_
```
A young woman with windswept hair, anime character, upper body, in a modern cel-shaded anime style, clean flat shading, crisp lineart, vibrant
```

_Noir manga_
```
A young woman with windswept hair, anime character, upper body, as black-and-white manga, bold ink, screentone shading, dramatic
```

_Webtoon / manhwa_
```
A young woman with windswept hair, anime character, upper body, in a Korean webtoon manhwa style, clean digital colouring, soft gradients
```

## Vocabulary

### 16 anime styles, one character

**Classic anime**
- **Studio Ghibli**: Soft painterly backgrounds, gentle colours, hand-drawn warmth.
- **Shonen**: Bold dynamic lines, high energy, saturated colour. Action anime.
- **Seinen**: Realistic proportions, mature muted tones, detailed.
- **Shoujo**: Delicate, sparkling eyes, soft pastels, floral accents.
- **1990s retro**: Grainy film look, muted palette, VHS nostalgia.
- **Slice-of-life**: Warm pastel colours, cozy, gentle light. Everyday calm.

**Manga & ink**
- **Noir manga**: Black and white, bold ink, screentone shading, dramatic.
- **Sumi-e ink**: Minimal black brush ink, expressive strokes, negative space.
- **Dark fantasy**: Dramatic shadows, intricate detail, ominous mood. Berserk-like.
- **Chibi**: Super-deformed, big head, tiny body, very cute.

**Modern digital**
- **Cel-shaded**: Clean flat shading, crisp lineart, vibrant. Modern default.
- **Modern digital**: Glossy rendering, detailed lighting, painterly polish.
- **Watercolour**: Soft washes, delicate edges, gentle illustration.
- **Webtoon**: Clean digital colour, soft gradients. Korean manhwa.
- **Vaporwave anime**: Pink-and-teal 80s city-pop palette, retro glow.
- **Mecha / sci-fi**: Hard mechanical detail, dynamic angles, sci-fi mood.


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From **God of Skills**: a curated, hand-tested directory of AI skills, prompts, templates and image style guides.
Source: https://godofskills.com/playbooks/ai-anime-styles?ref=claude-skill