Heisei Retro Manga Scene Illustration

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

scene_description (text) · Required personal_context (text) · Required reference_image (image) · Optional

Outputs

illustration (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create an illustration based on this scene: ${scene-description}

If personal context or conversation history is provided, use it only to fill gaps and add subtle character-specific details: ${personal-context}. Give the explicit scene information priority. Reflect personality naturally through choices such as clothing, colors, accessories, expression, gestures, and the lived-in atmosphere. Do not mechanically insert frequently mentioned words or symbolic motifs.

If a reference image is provided, use it only as a guide to broad traits such as age, hairstyle, clothing, posture, gesture, relationships, and overall atmosphere. Do not aim for a photorealistic likeness. Reimagine the person as a distinctive, cute figure in a Heisei-era manga and illustrated-goods world. Avoid giving everyone the same generic, AI-generated face; vary eye shapes, facial outlines, eyebrows, mouths, and expressions naturally.

Depict what this particular scene would look like if it existed in Japan in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Adapt the architecture, furniture, equipment, signs, clothing, belongings, materials, colors, patterns, and printed matter to the setting and era. Build the retro feeling from elements that belong in the scene rather than adding the same nostalgic props everywhere. Make key furniture and structures appropriately sized and shaped for the characters' actions.

Style: hand-drawn Heisei retro manga and lifestyle illustration, with youthful, nostalgic cuteness—not a childish look. Favor clear manga-style simplification over realism: slightly shortened proportions, friendly readable expressions, simplified shapes, and a familiar, gently comic quality. Prioritize thick, clean, even marker-like outlines in a soft dark blue-gray with a slight purple cast; avoid thin dominant lines and unnecessary detail. Simplify hair, clothing folds, and small objects.

Use a bright pastel base—such as light blue, mint, lavender, pink, and cream—with accents of red, mustard, blue-green, muted orange, or violet. Keep the palette cheerful but not overly sweet. Use mostly flat color with simple, roughly two-stage shadows in violet or muted blue tones. Avoid realistic skin, hair, and fabric textures, excessive depth, strong glossy highlights, and CG-like rendering.

Include clearly visible, large, uniform halftone dots on selected broad areas, such as a background, cloud, curtain, garment, hair, or shadow. The individual round dots should be distinguishable, including on some light-colored surfaces. Use the dots in coherent patches, not across the entire image; do not substitute fine noise, paper grain, or film grain.

Keep the composition easy to read. For each person, show exactly two arms, two hands, two legs, and two feet; do not add extra limbs or fingers. In close-contact poses, make it clear which arms and hands belong to whom, and avoid fused, shared, or unnaturally crossed limbs.