TIDEBREAKERS / Ep1-12

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Prompt

[Model: GPT-5.4 Image] Full-color manga page, portrait 2:3, 4 panels, read left to right, top to bottom. REFERENCES ATTACHED: Image 1 = KOA character sheet. Image 2 = MANU character sheet. Match each character's face, hairstyle, height difference, body proportions, skin tone and tattoos exactly to their sheet. Ignore the sheets' background, layout and labels. STYLE: adult cinematic semi-realistic manga style, sharp ink linework, hard shadows, realistic anatomy, moonlight on wet skin, dripping water. No chibi. BALL RULE: the ball is a regulation size-5 SOCCER BALL: a perfectly round sphere with the classic white and black pentagon-panel pattern, wet and scuffed. It must NOT be a rugby ball or an American football. No oval, egg-shaped or pointed ball anywhere on the page. CHARACTERS: KOA (soaked, white tank top, red board shorts). MANU (dark grey sleeveless shirt). Panel 1: Koa crawling up onto a dark reef rock, coughing, hugging the round black-and-white soccer ball against his chest with one arm. Panel 2: Manu on the shore, eyes wide, speechless. Panel 3: Koa standing up, water streaming off him, holding the round soccer ball out in front of him with both hands, its pentagon pattern clearly visible. Balloon: "I don't know football." Panel 4: Close-up of Koa's fierce, defiant grin under the moon, the round soccer ball at the edge of the frame. Balloon: "But I know how to not give up." White speech balloons with black English text, spelled exactly.

Model

GPT-5.4 Image 2

Cost

$0.21