KAGE-SAN IS NOT HERE / EP1. p1

The recipe

Prompt

Use GPT-5.4 Image 2. Make one picture: a single vertical 2:3 manga page. STYLE: Full-color manga page. A stylish fusion of shoujo manga and American comic book art, with strong ninja aesthetics. Characters: tall, slender, elegant proportions; large expressive glossy eyes with detailed highlights; fine flowing hair with sharp highlights. Inking: bold confident outlines, heavy spot blacks, dramatic chiaroscuro and rim lighting, Ben-Day halftone dot shading. Ninja motifs: long crimson scarves, crescent-moon clan crest, shuriken, smoke bursts, ink-wash brushstroke effects. Palette: midnight navy, ink black, steel grey, crimson accent. Layout: cinematic panel composition, clean white gutters, Western LEFT-TO-RIGHT reading order. Lettering: clean English comic lettering in white speech balloons, all-caps comic font, short lines, perfectly spelled. Keep every character exactly consistent with the attached character reference sheets. [COMEDY MODE] Exaggerated reaction faces, simplified deformed expressions for gags, sweat drops, bold English sound effects, lighter palette. PAGE 1 of 16. Portrait 2:3. 5 panels, left-to-right reading order. Panel 1 (panoramic strip, top third): morning establishing shot of a glass skyscraper in Marunouchi, Tokyo, sign on the building: "SHINONOME TRADING CO." Commuters streaming in. CAPTION: "Every company has one." Panel 2: busy open-plan office, employees on phones and laptops, energetic. CAPTION: "Someone quiet. Someone invisible." Panel 3: small cluttered corner with a sign "GENERAL AFFAIRS". KAGE-SAN (office disguise) on his knees, calmly pulling a jammed sheet out of a copier. Panel 4: two young male coworkers whispering behind a partition, puzzled faces. COWORKER 1: "Who's that guy?" COWORKER 2: "Kageyama. General Affairs. Nobody knows what he does." Panel 5: close-up of KAGE-SAN's sleepy face behind round glasses, one tiny sweat drop. CAPTION: "Someone who goes home at five. Sharp." Avoid: multiple images or variations, image grids, Japanese or garbled text, misspelled words, right-to-left panel order, extra fingers or limbs, inconsistent character designs, watermarks, signatures, photorealism, gore.

Model

GPT-5.4 Image 2

Cost

$0.20