| 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
Integration
- Loads
comic-core and comic-consistency; rendered via comic-image-generation-adapter
- Native habitat:
4koma-vertical; patterns gag-escalation and kishotenketsu
Chibi compresses emotion into proportion.
