KAGE-SAN IS NOT HERE / EP1. p3

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. [ACTION MODE] American-comic-leaning rendering: dynamic foreshortening, speed lines, heavy shadows, halftone dots, impact frames, bold sound effects in English (WHOOSH, CLANG, THUD). PAGE 3 of 16. Portrait 2:3. 5 panels, left-to-right reading order. Panel 1 (panoramic strip): the office at night, mostly dark, city lights through the windows. A wall clock reads 9:00 PM. CAPTION: "9:00 PM." Panel 2: HIKARI alone at her laptop, tired but smiling, then frowning at the screen. HIKARI: "Huh? Where's the AURORA folder?" Panel 3: close-up of the laptop screen showing an empty folder and a red warning: "0 FILES". Panel 4: HIKARI rushing into a glass project room; a metal prototype case lies open and EMPTY, the room lit by a flickering ceiling light. HIKARI: "No... NO!" Panel 5 (dramatic low angle): HIKARI's horrified face lit from below, a long unnatural shadow stretching across the wall behind her. HIKARI: "The deck AND the prototype... they're GONE!" 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