KAGE-SAN IS NOT HERE / EP1. p0

The recipe

Prompt

Use GPT-5.4 Image 2. Make one picture: a single vertical 2:3 manga title page. STYLE: Full-color manga title 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. Keep every character exactly consistent with the attached character reference sheets. [ACTION MODE] American-comic-leaning rendering: dynamic foreshortening, speed lines, heavy shadows, halftone dots, impact frames. [ROMANCE MODE] Shoujo-leaning rendering: soft bloom lighting, sparkles, floating petals and flower screentones, gentle pink highlights, delicate eye shine, blushing cheeks. TITLE PAGE (single full-page illustration, no panels, no speech balloons), portrait 2:3. Composition: the page is split vertically down the middle by a diagonal ink-brush stroke. LEFT HALF (DAY): bright Tokyo office with glass windows. KAGE-SAN in FORM A (office disguise), slouching, glasses, carrying a tall stack of paperwork, bored expression. RIGHT HALF (NIGHT): the same pose mirrored, but KAGE-SAN in FORM B (shinobi mode) crouched on an office-tower ledge, crimson scarf streaming in the wind, kunai-like binder-clip shuriken between his fingers, a huge full moon and the Marunouchi skyline behind him. Bottom left corner: HIKARI looking up toward the night side, hand on her chest, soft sparkles around her. Top right corner, hidden in shadow: only AYAME's violet eyes and a few drifting purple iris petals. Title logo across the top in bold brush-stroke English lettering: "KAGE-SAN IS NOT HERE". Subtitle in smaller clean lettering at the bottom: "EPISODE 1: THE MAN WHO WENT HOME AT FIVE". Avoid: multiple images or variations, image grids, Japanese or garbled text, misspelled words, extra fingers or limbs, inconsistent character designs, watermarks, signatures, photorealism, gore.

Model

GPT-5.4 Image 2

Cost

$0.22