chibi-kawaii-comic

name	chibi-kawaii-comic
version	2.0.0
category	comic-styles
description	Sticker-flat chibi kawaii comics — locked 2-head proportions, a five-swatch pastel palette, emoji-grammar faces, and thick rounded outlines for silly-sweet gag strips.

Chibi Kawaii Comic

Style Lock (do not deviate)

• Chibi kawaii style with the 2-head proportion locked: head height equals body height for every character in every panel, no exceptions
• Pastel palette discipline: 4–5 named swatches per project (default: blossom pink, cream, mint, powder blue, soft lilac) plus paper white — nothing outside the set
• Thick rounded outlines at one uniform heavy weight, drawn in soft charcoal or warm cocoa (never harsh pure black), every shape closed and sticker-like
• Emoji-grammar expressions: faces snap between a fixed symbolic set — dot eyes, squint arcs, sparkle-O eyes, wavy mouth — drawn symbols, never rendered emotion
• Sticker-flat shading: flat fills with at most one soft pastel shadow tone per swatch; no gradients, no rendered light
• Backgrounds in the same rounded grammar: flat pastel fields or simple dot/stripe patterns; props toy-round
• Oversized emotion props sanctioned (giant sweat drop, heart, anger cross, sparkle burst) — one per panel maximum, fixed designs

Negative Locks

• No realistic anatomy or proportion drift — heads never shrink toward 3-head bodies
• No rendered shading, gradients, airbrush, or dramatic lighting
• No saturated neon or dark moody palettes; pastels only
• No fine detail linework (lace, hatching, texture); shapes stay sticker-simple
• No horror, gore, or genuinely mean beats — distress is always cute-coded
• No screentone or print-texture artifacts

When to Use

• Gag strips, mascot humor, pet logic, snack-sized daily-life jokes, silly-sweet friendship beats
• Reference images cueing roundness, softness, toy-like charm, or exaggerated cuteness
• 4-koma rhythm where each panel is one clean, emoji-readable beat

When Not to Use

• Romance with period texture and interiority → use shoujo-romance-manga
• All-ages action energy with cel-animation discipline → use saturday-morning-cartoon-comic
• Quiet contemplative atmosphere → use ink-wash-storybook-manga

Story Harness (Image-Driven)

• Translate the four cues into one tiny absurd want (snack, nap, attention) — chibi stakes are huge feelings about small things
• SETUP: state the want with a full-body mid-pose against a flat pastel field; one toy-round prop carries the premise
• REINFORCE: escalate through the emoji grammar — expression snaps bigger, the emotion prop appears, body language inflates; this is gag-escalation's rising rung
• TURNAROUND: silly-sweet — the want resolves sideways into cuteness (shared snack, accidental hug, triumphant nap); biggest expression of the strip; never mean, never sad without sweetness

World Guardrail

• Default to cozy miniature worlds: kitchens, desks, sofas, parks, bakeries — anywhere snacks and naps live
• Props rounded and toy-like; technology allowed but drawn cute (round phone, smiling rice cooker)
• Animals and mascots are first-class citizens and obey the same 2-head law

Dialogue & Lettering

• Puffy rounded bubbles matching the outline weight; tails short and thick
• 0–2 bubbles per panel, ≤ ~6 words; many beats land on expression alone
• SFX policy: cute onomatopoeia encouraged ("pyon", "munch", "zzz") in bubble-rounded letterforms filled from the palette — one per panel

Direction Notes

• Camera diet: flat frontal and three-quarter mediums; full-body shots dominate because the proportion is the joke; close-ups only for expression snaps
• Transition diet: action-to-action up the escalation ladder; one moment-to-moment deadpan hold before the payoff; never scene-to-scene inside a strip
• Pacing: even 4-koma panel heights and even gutters — metronome regularity is what makes escalation read
• The final panel may break exactly one rule (a character leaning on the border) as the release valve

Consistency Notes

• What drifts first: head-to-body ratio (creeps toward 3-head) and palette sprawl (stray tints sneak in); lock the ratio in the DNA template and the named swatches in style memory (comic-style-memory-system)
• The expression set is an asset: enumerate each character's allowed emoji-faces in the DNA sheet and reuse them exactly
• Outline weight is a single project-wide value; re-anchor against the canonical sheet every 8–10 panels
• Emotion props have fixed designs — draw the sweat drop, heart, and anger cross once, reuse forever

Prompt Block

Chibi kawaii comic style, locked two-head super-deformed
proportions, thick rounded uniform outlines in soft charcoal,
sticker-flat pastel fills from a small fixed swatch set of
blossom pink, cream, mint and powder blue, single flat pastel
shadow tone, emoji-style symbolic faces with dot eyes and simple
mouth shapes, oversized cute emotion icons, flat pastel
backgrounds with simple dot or stripe patterns, adorable toy-like
sticker finish.

Style Quality Gates

• Every character measures exactly 2 heads tall in every panel
• All fills come from the named project swatch set — zero stray tints
• Outline weight uniform and rounded everywhere, bubbles included
• Expressions use the enumerated emoji set, never rendered realistic emotion
• At most one oversized emotion prop per panel, matched to the beat

Integration

• Loads comic-core and comic-consistency; rendered via comic-image-generation-adapter
• Native habitat: 4koma-vertical; patterns gag-escalation and kishotenketsu

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Chibi compresses emotion into proportion.