{
 "slug": "anime-style",
 "name": "Anime",
 "category": "style",
 "group": "Illustration",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Cel-shaded Japanese animation: expressive, youthful, energetic.",
 "use_when": "Youth brands, gaming, explainer characters.",
 "phrase": "anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas",
 "pitfalls": [],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "vector-flat-style"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec, own words"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/style/anime-style",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/style/anime-style.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "nano-banana-2": "Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "seedance-2.5": "Global look: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas\nScene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Global look: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas\nScene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}