Original image / composition reference:
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/128516181
Related original post / scene reference:
https://art-blue-liberalism.blogspot.com/2025/03/yuyu-yuyuko-saigyouji-blocking-youmu.html
Prompt
Redraw this illustration while preserving the overall composition, character placement, interaction, scene layout, dramatic intent, and camera framing as closely as possible.
Use the second reference image as an expression and scene-context reference, especially for the left character’s frustrated, slightly exasperated, mildly incredulous mood.
Use the third reference image as a skin tone and skin-rendering reference, especially for the soft luminous complexion, smooth texture, gentle blush, and delicate anime-style skin shading.
Use the additional reference image of the pink-haired ghostly noblewoman as a reference for the right character’s facial design, warm illumination, skin rendering, and treatment of the surrounding ghostly wisps only, while preserving the original scene, pose, costume identity, character placement, and overall composition.
Use the small cropped reference of the left character’s original expression and torso area as an additional guide for her intended mood and general pose energy, but prioritize anatomical coherence and correct body orientation over accidental distortions in the problematic version.
Overall Art Direction
Redraw this illustration as a polished early-to-mid-1990s Japanese fantasy RPG key illustration, reflecting the elegant visual language of Japanese fantasy strategy games, anime illustration books, and romantic shōjo-fantasy artwork from approximately 1991–1995.
The final image should combine the dramatic clarity, heroic presence, and refined fantasy atmosphere of early-1990s Japanese RPG promotional art with the graceful silhouettes, romantic colour harmony, jewel-like eyes, decorative costume design, and gentle fantasy elegance associated with period shōjo-oriented anime illustration.
Use delicate but confident linework, softly modelled cel shading, warm luminous skin tones, flowing hair with carefully separated locks, richly described fabrics, refined accessories, and a detailed atmospheric background.
Preserve the overall composition, dramatic storytelling, relative character placement, colour scheme, costume identities, signature accessories, and background concept while significantly refining the anatomy, facial expressions, line quality, costume construction, lighting, shading, and overall rendering quality.
Set the scene in a mystical Japanese ghostly mansion garden, featuring stone stairways, traditional architecture, drifting cherry blossoms, soft mist, and a dreamy supernatural atmosphere.
Characters
Left Character
A young swordswoman with short silver hair, a large black bow, and a dark green dress.
She is holding and drawing her swords while reacting with visible frustration and determination.
Her facial expression and body language should convey a slightly exasperated, incredulous, mildly fed-up “this is so unreasonable” feeling, entirely through expression and gesture, without using any written dialogue, captions, or speech bubbles.
She should appear ready to begin the fight, but her emotional tone should be more lightly annoyed, slightly bewildered, and mildly put-upon than physically straining.
Avoid an expression that feels excessively tense, ferocious, grim, or forcefully aggressive.
Instead, aim for a feeling of annoyed disbelief, mild exasperation, and reluctant readiness.
Her eyes should remain readable and expressive while fitting the early-1990s fantasy anime illustration aesthetic, rather than appearing excessively modern, overly moe-like, or sharply shōnen-oriented.
Critical Torso and Anatomy Correction for the Left Character
The main anatomical issue is not only the pelvis, but the fact that the ribcage / torso and pelvis appear to describe different body orientations.
In the corrected version, the left character should read as a back three-quarter view, with her body turned away from the viewer and her head and upper torso twisting back toward the right.
This means that the side of the body facing the viewer should read primarily as her back / back-ribcage / rear torso side, not as the front chest.
The current ambiguity where the torso can be read as front chest and breast volume must be removed.
Do not depict the visible torso as a front-facing bust or frontal chest plane.
Do not shape the blouse, vest, or shading in a way that suggests a clearly frontal breast contour.
Instead, make the torso read as:
- a back-dominant ribcage
- a rear three-quarter upper torso
- a shoulder-blade / back-side connection
- a side-back view of the waist and ribcage
The white blouse neckline and green garment should be rendered so they read as clothing wrapping around a turned back and side torso, rather than a frontal chest.
The shoulder and underarm connection should also read consistently as a back-turned pose, not as a frontal chest attached to a backward pelvis.
The main goal is to create a continuous anatomical flow from:
upper back / ribcage → waist / abdomen transition → pelvis / hips
rather than a contradictory reading of:
front chest → sudden directional change → rear pelvis
Pelvis, Waist, and Lower-Body Alignment
The waist, pelvis, hips, skirt, and upper legs must follow the same overall body orientation as the corrected torso.
The pelvis should follow the torso’s direction more closely, so the lower body no longer appears to face front or left independently.
A slight twist is natural and desirable, but the pelvis should rotate approximately 15–25 degrees more toward the torso’s direction than in the problematic version.
Do not let the lower body rotate toward the viewer in a way that contradicts the upper body.
The pelvis should sit naturally beneath the ribcage, with a believable twist through the waist rather than an impossible or broken rotation.
Add a little more visual clarity and slight length through the waist and abdomen-to-pelvis transition, so the twist from torso to pelvis can be read naturally.
The hip line and thigh direction should read consistently in perspective, so the lower body feels structurally connected to the torso.
The visible thigh root / upper leg connection should be placed slightly more inward and slightly higher, so the hip joint reads more naturally and does not appear too far outward or too far back.
The pelvic center should read slightly more toward the image-right side than in the distorted version, helping the lower body align more convincingly with the torso.
The left-side skirt bulge should be reduced slightly, so that the skirt does not imply a separately oriented or over-rotated pelvis.
The skirt must wrap around the pelvis and upper thighs correctly, with folds and volume following the actual orientation of the hips instead of implying a separate front-facing pose.
The legs should emerge naturally from the hips, with consistent perspective, believable foreshortening, and clear anatomical continuity from torso to pelvis to thighs to knees.
Specific Back / Hip Interpretation
The visible lower-body mass in the problematic area should read as the rear and side of the hips / buttocks beneath the dress, not the crotch.
The overall body should read as if the viewer is seeing:
- the back and side of the torso
- the back-side waist connection
- the rear three-quarter pelvis
- the side hip and buttock mass
- the dress wrapping around the back of the hips
Do not shape the body or clothing in a way that suggests that the upper torso is frontal while the pelvis is rear-facing.
Do not create a Möbius-like torso twist or a front-chest / back-pelvis contradiction.
The final result should preserve the original action pose and silhouette while making the left character’s upper-torso orientation, back reading, waist transition, pelvic rotation, buttock placement, thigh-root placement, skirt structure, and leg orientation anatomically coherent and visually natural.
Right Character
A cheerful ghostly noblewoman floating playfully in front of the swordswoman and blocking her path.
She is smiling calmly and mischievously, wearing an elegant mint-green dress, a soft blue hat decorated with a spiral ornament, and holding a decorative folding fan.
Her facial rendering should lean slightly toward a graceful romantic shōjo-fantasy sensibility.
Do not render her eyes in an excessively sharp, severe, or strongly shōnen-manga style.
Keep the eyes elegant, luminous, softly shaped, and emotionally readable, with delicate facial features, graceful eyelashes, softly layered irises, and restrained highlights.
Avoid making the eyes excessively oversized or too modern in appearance.
Her expression should feel graceful, serene, mysterious, gently playful, and aristocratic.
Critical Hand and Arm Correction for the Right Character
The raised arm on the viewer’s left side of the right character is her right arm, and the attached hand must clearly be her right hand, not a left hand.
Correct the anatomy so that the hand laterality matches the arm correctly.
Do not attach a mirrored left hand to the right forearm.
The wrist, palm orientation, thumb placement, and finger direction must all read clearly as a right hand connected naturally to the raised right arm.
Keep the elegant raised-arm gesture and open-handed pose, but ensure the hand anatomy is correct, graceful, and feminine.
The hand should have:
- a correct right-hand structure
- natural wrist alignment
- proper thumb placement for a right hand
- clean finger spacing
- no fused, duplicated, or ambiguous fingers
- no impossible wrist twist
- no left-hand mirroring
The sleeve opening, cuff, wrist, and hand should connect cleanly and convincingly.
Preserve the overall gesture and silhouette of the raised arm, but make the hand read unmistakably as a right hand attached to the right arm.
Composition and Visual Direction
Preserve the original pose concept, limb positions, relative character placement, and interaction between the two figures as closely as possible.
Maintain the same general portrait composition and vertical camera framing while improving the anatomy and proportions, facial expressions, clean and refined line art, fabric folds and costume ornamentation, sword and accessory details, atmospheric perspective, cinematic lighting, and overall polish.
For the left character specifically, preserve the expressive action and overall silhouette, but correct both the torso orientation and the lower-body twist so the upper back, ribcage, waist, pelvis, hips, buttocks, skirt mass, and legs align naturally within one believable body rotation.
Ensure that the left character reads as a coherent back three-quarter pose with a backward glance, rather than a contradictory mixture of frontal chest and rear-facing pelvis.
For the right character specifically, preserve the playful raised-arm gesture, but correct the raised hand so it is anatomically a right hand attached properly to the right arm.
Surround the characters with glowing white butterflies, luminous drifting ghostly wisps, falling cherry blossom petals, and soft supernatural light.
The environment should feel like an elegant and mysterious Japanese mansion garden in spring, with stone stairs receding into the distance, blooming cherry trees, traditional architecture, and layers of soft mist.
Use a romantic and luminous colour palette centred around pink, lavender, violet, mint-green, and cool blue ambient light.
Add subtle luminous highlights cast by the butterflies and supernatural wisps.
The final illustration should feel dreamy, vibrant, elegant, slightly mysterious, and supernatural, with polished anime-style rendering, soft shading, and the premium appearance of a 1990s Japanese fantasy RPG promotional illustration or luxury anime illustration-book plate.
Supernatural Companion Direction
Several small pale ghostly wisps should surround the right character and reinforce her supernatural presence.
The ghostly wisps should remain light, soft, pale, semi-translucent, cleanly shaped, and spiritually atmospheric.
They should appear as simple floating supernatural spirit forms, rather than fully developed creatures.
They must not contain or imply human faces, eyes, mouths, noses, eyebrows, teeth, facial markings, expressive grooves, carved-looking facial structures, heavily defined anatomy, monster-like characteristics, mascot-like features, or any recognisable human or animal face.
Do not transform the wisps into people, animals, mascots, monsters, skulls, humanoid ghosts, elaborate creature-like spirits, or supernatural beings with clearly readable faces.
Keep them as soft, pale, floating wisps with clean silhouettes and a gentle supernatural presence.
Do not remove them, but also do not allow them to overwhelm or compete visually with the two main figures.
They should support the atmosphere and the right character’s supernatural identity without distracting from the central interaction.
Skin Tone, Texture, and Warm Illumination
Skin Colour and Texture
Render the skin closer to the skin-rendering reference, while keeping the original characters, costumes, poses, and scene content unchanged.
The skin should have a soft luminous ivory complexion with warm peach undertones and restrained natural pink blush.
Use a smooth anime-style finish with gentle translucent depth, creamy tonal modelling, soft warm gradients, subtle variations in skin colour, delicate highlights, and a clean silky appearance.
Add gentle rosy warmth to naturally flushed areas such as the cheeks, knees, elbows, and fingertips.
The complexion should appear healthy, luminous, softly radiant, refined, and polished, while remaining clearly illustrated rather than photorealistic.
The skin must not appear metallic, plastic-like, waxy, oily, overly glossy, chrome-like, or harshly reflective.
Warm Illumination
Use strong but elegant warm illumination that remains believable within the existing environment.
Create bright warm highlights, soft golden rim lighting around the hair and silhouettes, warm reflected illumination, subtle amber bounce light, creamy illuminated areas, warm peach-coloured shadows, and gentle tonal transitions between light and shadow.
The brightest illuminated areas may become highly luminous, but facial features, anatomy, linework, costume detail, and colour information must remain clearly readable.
Maintain a pronounced yet elegant contrast between luminous highlights and soft warm shadows.
Reflected Colour and Dimensionality
Allow subtle pale rose, peach, amber, lavender, and blue-green reflected colours within the shaded areas to create dimensionality, translucent depth, and atmospheric integration.
Use restrained soft bloom and gentle light diffusion around the strongest illuminated edges, particularly around the hair, silhouettes, flowing sleeves, and selected bright contours.
The characters should appear luminous against darker or cooler surrounding areas while remaining fully integrated into the existing scene.
The lighting should enhance the atmosphere and dimensionality without overwhelming the original environment.
Preserve the Original Environment
Preserve the original background, environment, figure placement, scene layout, visual storytelling, background concept, and overall composition.
Keep all lighting believable within the existing scene.
Do not introduce a new window, unrelated architectural light source, photographic bokeh, shallow depth of field, unrelated background lighting, or a replacement background merely to create the desired illumination.
Instead, adapt the warm illumination, golden rim light, reflected colour, and highlight-to-shadow contrast to the light sources and supernatural elements already present in the original illustration.
The final rendering should feel warm, luminous, dimensional, elegant, softly radiant, atmospheric, and highly polished, with the refined colour modelling of a premium early-to-mid-1990s Japanese fantasy RPG illustration.
Format
Use a portrait composition with a width-to-height aspect ratio of 1:1.414, matching the international A-series paper proportion.
The composition should be suitable for high-quality A3 or A4 printing.
Preserve the vertical storytelling and ensure that both main figures, their signature accessories, the supernatural companions, and the architectural environment remain clearly readable within the frame.
Text Restriction
Do not include any dialogue, speech bubbles, captions, character names, series titles, franchise names, logos, signatures, watermarks, dates, labels, or any other written or identifying text anywhere in the generated image.
The left character’s frustrated reaction must be communicated only through facial expression, posture, and body language.
Style Keywords
early-1990s Japanese fantasy RPG key visual, romantic shōjo fantasy, polished anime illustration, Japanese ghostly mansion garden, supernatural atmosphere, cherry blossoms, glowing butterflies, pale spirit wisps, ethereal lighting, pink and purple illumination, elegant costume details, refined cel shading, cinematic composition, dreamy spring night, vintage anime illustration book aesthetic, soft luminous skin, warm ivory complexion, peach undertones, delicate blush, silky anime skin rendering, graceful shōjo-fantasy facial design, elegant jewel-like eyes, warm golden rim light, refined reflected colour, premium fantasy promotional artwork, coherent body twist, back three-quarter torso view, anatomically correct pelvis alignment, natural waist-to-hip connection, visible torso-to-pelvis transition, corrected thigh-root placement, rear three-quarter pelvis view, correct buttock placement, mildly exasperated expression, correct right-hand anatomy, correct hand laterality, right hand attached to right arm
Negative Prompt
Anatomy and Pose
frontal chest attached to rear-facing pelvis, chest facing camera while pelvis faces away, back-pelvis / front-chest contradiction, Möbius-like torso twist, impossible torso rotation, twisted lower body facing front independently, disconnected pelvis, broken waist-to-hip connection, abrupt ribcage-to-pelvis directional change, mismatched upper and lower body orientation, unnatural pelvic rotation, incorrectly front-facing hips, disconnected legs, broken leg attachment, inconsistent thigh perspective, distorted skirt perspective, anatomically implausible lower body, warped hips, broken body alignment, twisted anatomy, deformed limbs, crotch-like shaping in the lower-body area, front-facing groin emphasis, incorrect pelvic read, ambiguous hip orientation, thigh root placed too far outward, pelvis not following torso direction, visible breast-like contour on the side that should read as back
Right Hand and Arm
left hand attached to right arm, wrong hand laterality, mirrored hand anatomy, incorrect right-hand structure, impossible wrist rotation, twisted wrist, backwards thumb placement, ambiguous hand orientation, fused fingers, extra fingers, missing fingers, malformed hand, broken hand anatomy, disconnected hand, hand emerging incorrectly from sleeve, mismatched arm-hand connection
Expression and Mood
overly angry expression, fierce rage, gritted-teeth aggression, excessive shouting, intense straining, overly dramatic battle scream, severe hostility, exaggerated muscular effort, emotionally too intense, expression too combative, expression too ferocious
Skin and Colour
gray skin, pale blue skin, cold skin tone, overly orange skin, excessive tan, flat skin shading, dull colours, muddy colours, plastic-looking skin, waxy skin, metallic skin, chrome-like reflections, oily skin, harsh mirror-like reflections, rough skin texture, noisy skin, excessive pores, photorealistic skin texture
Lighting and Shading
harsh shadows, featureless black shadows, excessive contrast, featureless blown-out highlights, loss of facial detail in highlights, unnatural saturation, flat lighting, cold fluorescent lighting, hard frontal flash, lifeless lighting, excessive HDR
Rendering Style
photorealistic rendering, 3D-rendered surfaces, rough painterly brushwork, thick uniform outlines, oversized modern moe eyes, excessively sharp shōnen-style eyes, chibi proportions
Camera and Background Effects
photographic lens effects, shallow depth of field, large circular bokeh, unrelated window-light setup, heavily blurred background, replacement of the original background
Ghostly Wisps
visible human-like facial features on the ghostly wisps, eyes on the ghostly wisps, mouths on the ghostly wisps, noses on the ghostly wisps, eyebrows on the ghostly wisps, teeth on the ghostly wisps, face-like hollows, facial grooves, facial indentations, expression-like markings, monster-like spirit designs, mascot-like ghost designs, animal-like ghost designs, humanoid ghosts, skull-like spirits
