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Tender Mai and Claude Anime Portrait

Tender Mai and Claude Anime Portrait is a reusable Character Design example from Mai@十字キーの弊害, including the full prompt, source link, and output media.

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Case Notes

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Case Insights

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Best Fit Scenarios

  • Use this as a character design benchmark when you need a fast style baseline before rewriting your own prompt.
  • It is especially helpful if your target overlaps with Portrait, Cinematic, Illustration and you want to judge the image result before tuning wording.
  • Keep it as a control sample when you compare nearby prompt variants one variable at a time.

Visual Signals To Notice

  • The clearest style signals here are Portrait, Cinematic, Illustration, so those should usually stay in your first rewrite.
  • Look at silhouette, costume language, mood styling, and whether the character reads clearly at a glance.
  • This case keeps one primary output, so the first image should be treated as the main visual reference.

How The Prompt Is Structured

  • The prompt reads as a long, highly specified prompt, which is useful when you want to judge how much specificity this direction needs.
  • Its keyword cluster is centered on Portrait, Cinematic, Illustration, so you can usually keep that cluster while swapping subject, camera, layout, or copy details.
  • A practical rewrite path is: keep the outcome, keep the strongest style cues, then replace only the subject and environment blocks.

Good Follow-up Questions

  • What changes first if you keep Portrait, Cinematic, Illustration but switch the subject matter?
  • Which part of the result comes from section-level structure (Character Design) versus tag-level style cues?
  • Which related cases in the same section give you a cleaner or more extreme variation of the same direction?

Full Prompt

Create a soft, luminous vertical anime-style romantic close-up portrait of two characters facing each other intimately against a bright white backlit background. The taller character, {argument name="male character name" default="Claude"}, is on the right, shown from forehead to chest, with pale skin, ash-blond swept-back layered hair, a visible ear, long neck, and a dark open jacket over a light V-neck shirt; his head leans down toward the shorter character. The shorter character, {argument name="female character name" default="Mai"}, is on the lower left in profile, with pale skin, short slightly messy black bob hair, a visible ear, and a black hooded top, looking upward toward him while holding or touching his clothing with clasped hands near the lower right. Use delicate semi-realistic anime rendering, fine hair strands, soft rim light, gentle pastel skin tones, shallow depth of field, tender emotional atmosphere, and a clean high-key white background. Add large semi-opaque rectangular censor blocks over the characters’ faces: one tall dusty rose-gray rectangle covering most of the woman’s face and central area, and one larger pale taupe rectangle covering the man’s face and upper center-right, overlapping the first block in an offset L-shaped arrangement. Overlay a faint oversized circular watermark emblem across the whole image. Include exactly 3 visible text elements: a white copyright line near the lower left reading “©ImaginaryGate”, a partially visible white credit line across the lower middle-right reading “ctMRA | Mai”, and an elegant white cursive caption at the bottom right reading “{argument name="caption text" default="Mai & Claude"}”. The composition should feel like a tender farewell or emotional reunion, with soft cinematic lighting and polished digital illustration quality.

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