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Unohana Retsu Bankai Cosplay Portrait

Create a cinematic, photorealistic BLEACH cosplay character poster using a face reference, with drifting sakura petals, a glowing katana, and vintage Japanese editorial styling.

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Format
Markdown Parameterized
Inputs
FaceReferenceImage (image) · Required character (text) · Optional · Default: Unohana Retsu franchise (text) · Optional · Default: BLEACH
Outputs
CosplayCharacterPoster (image)

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

## Image prompt
Create a hyperrealistic cinematic cosplay portrait of an adult East Asian woman portraying ${character:Unohana Retsu} from ${franchise:BLEACH}. Use the supplied face image as a strong identity reference.

Show her as an elegant, quietly intimidating Soul Reaper during a Bankai awakening. She turns three-quarters away from the camera and looks back over her shoulder, raising a katana diagonally beside her face. One hand firmly grips the dark wrapped handle above the circular metal guard. The luminous blade forms a dramatic diagonal across the composition.

### Setting and poster design
Use an aged, smoky beige-gray backdrop resembling weathered Japanese paper, fading into charcoal shadows near the lower corners. Sakura petals drift through the foreground and background at varied focal distances. Wispy translucent pink-red spiritual energy coils around the katana like smoky reiatsu. Place elegant Japanese calligraphy and editorial poster typography on the left, reading “UNOHANA RETSU,” “BLEACH,” and “BANKAI.” Keep asymmetrical negative space on camera-left for the typography.

### Appearance and costume
Give her extremely long, naturally textured jet-black hair with a center part, smooth crown volume, cheek-framing front sections, loose temple strands, and a thick braid descending behind her. Preserve individual strands, flyaways, natural roots, and subtle highlights.

Dress her in a traditional white Soul Reaper captain haori over a black shihakushō-style kimono. Wide flowing ivory sleeves fill the lower-right foreground; black inner cuffs and collar provide contrast. Include a black geometric captain-style insignia on the back and sleeve. Show authentic woven fabric, folds, stitching, creases, wrinkles, and subtle ivory tonal variation.

The katana has a dark burgundy-black diamond-pattern handle wrap, aged bronze or steel fittings, a circular pierced tsuba, and a polished blade. Give the blade a restrained translucent pink-crimson Bankai glow with subtle blood-red vein-like markings and smoky spiritual particles. Reflect the glow naturally on the sleeves, fingers, and lower face.

### Makeup and expression
Use refined natural Japanese/Korean cinematic makeup: satin foundation that preserves pores and microtexture; delicate peach-rose blush across cheeks and nose; subtle warm beige contour; softly defined straight black brows with individual hairs; muted taupe-brown eyelids; very thin black-brown eyeliner; separated lashes; faint peach under-eye warmth; subtle inner-corner illumination; and muted apricot-coral nude satin lips with softly blurred edges. Avoid plastic smoothing and excessive beauty filters.

### Composition and atmosphere
Vertical 2:3 cinematic character-poster composition, tight waist-up portrait, approximately eye-level. Position the subject center-right, with her face near the upper-middle third. Turn her body away about 45 degrees and rotate her head back toward the viewer. Use the katana as the dominant diagonal leading line. Keep the eyes, face, hands, and sword guard sharply focused; use blurred petals, the glowing blade, and flowing sleeve as foreground interest. Build layered depth with the paper-textured background, calligraphy, and typography.

Mood: ethereal, serene, ominous, melancholic, deadly, sacred, and dramatic. Add faint volumetric haze, suspended dust, subtle atmospheric grain, and barely visible mist. Use ancient-paper beige, charcoal black, ivory, muted burgundy, and dusty sakura-pink.

### Photographic treatment and lighting
Photorealistic professional DSLR portrait with a Kodak film-stock aesthetic, soft organic grain, subdued saturation, vintage Japanese editorial texture, slightly faded blacks, creamy highlights, and analog color response. Preserve pores, tiny blemishes, flyaway hairs, natural fabric folds, microscopic dust, imperfect sword reflections, and realistic depth-of-field transitions.

Use strong directional side light from camera-left at approximately 45 degrees, softened by north-facing window light. Add gentle highlights to the forehead, nose bridge, cheek, and sword guard; let the opposite side fall into deep cinematic shadow while retaining shadow detail. Add restrained rim light to separate black hair from the background.

Use f/1.8 shallow depth of field. A 50mm lens is preferred for natural facial proportions while retaining atmosphere and typography; a 14–24mm lens may be used for wider environmental storytelling and exaggerated sword perspective. Camera reference: Nikon D850, ZEISS Distagon T 35mm, 1/200s, ISO 100, 8K detail. Include mild edge chromatic aberration, subtle optical softness, realistic highlight roll-off, and physically accurate fabric and sword geometry.

### Negative constraints
Avoid anime or cartoon rendering, plastic skin, excessive smoothing, oversaturated neon, fake CGI-looking sword, distorted face, crossed eyes, duplicate features, malformed hands, extra or missing fingers, fused fingers, broken wrists, duplicate sword, bent blade, warped tsuba, floating weapon, incorrect grip, duplicated petals, illegible typography, random symbols, malformed braid, artificial hair, flat lighting, HDR halos, excessive bloom, oversharpening, waxy fabric, low resolution, and watermarks.

--ar 2:3 --iw 2 --stylize 150 --v 6 --q 2

Parameters

Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.

${character: Unohana Retsu} character Default: Unohana Retsu
${franchise: BLEACH} franchise Default: BLEACH

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