¶ Anime Styles

See how 56 Danbooru style tags change the same anime girl on a city street: 12 art styles, from 1990s (style) and art nouveau to low poly and ukiyo-e, 19 general aesthetics, such as cyberpunk, steampunk and vaporwave, and 25 traditional media, such as watercolor (medium) and graphite (medium). Every picture is made with the same prompt, seed and settings on WAI-illustrious v17. Only one tag changes.

Each group starts with a picture without a tag, for comparison; the tags follow from A to Z. Copy a tag to use it in your own prompt, or choose Try to open MonAI with that picture's full prompt and settings. Select a picture to see it full size.

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• How the pictures were made
• Where the tags come from

¶ How the pictures were made

Each prompt puts one tag into the same base prompt:

1girl, [tag], short hair, dark hair, light blue shirt, upper body, city street

A city street gives a style something to change besides the girl: the buildings, signs, light and colours. It ends with the quality tags of the WAI Anime v17 style in MonAI:

masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality

Every picture uses that style's negative prompt:

bad quality, worst quality, worst detail, sketch

• Model: WAI-illustrious v17
• Size: 768 × 960
• Steps: 25
• Guidance scale (CFG): 7
• Sampler: Euler a
• Seed: 8352

Each tag was rendered once. Some styles change the picture a lot: art nouveau adds a decorative frame, low poly turns her into polygons and cyberpunk, synthwave and vaporwave fill the street with neon. Others change it only a little, such as cubism, impressionism, nihonga, sumi-e, abstract, frutiger aero and tenshi kaiwai; WAI-illustrious v17 keeps its own anime look. Most traditional media tags change the picture only a little: watercolor (medium) and watercolor pencil (medium) show the clearest change, and graphite (medium) mutes the colours. Some are taken literally: brush (medium), chalk (medium), calligraphy brush (medium) and nib pen (medium) put that tool in her hand. With another prompt, seed or model, a style can look different.

¶ Where the tags come from

The tags come from the art styles, general aesthetics and traditional media groups of TagExplorer, which follow Danbooru's visual aesthetic tag group. cave paintings and gurokawa are left off, as on TagExplorer. Tags for styles of named artists aren't on this page.

The decade and traditional media tags contain parentheses. Their copy text puts a backslash before each one, as in 1990s \(style\); keep the backslashes, or the parentheses are read as weighting.

For more on anime prompts, see Anime Face Tags, Anime Hair Tags, Anime Full-Body Pose Tags, Anime Prompting and the Illustrious Prompt Guide.