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80s RETRO ANIME BEDROOM — MASTER SCENE RECREATION PROMPT

Create ONE highly detailed, cinematic, hand-drawn 1980s Japanese anime illustration based on the supplied PERSON REFERENCE IMAGE.

The person in the uploaded photograph must become the main character in the scene.

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1. IDENTITY PRESERVATION — ABSOLUTE PRIORITY
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Use the uploaded person's photograph ONLY as identity evidence.

The final character must remain immediately recognizable as the same individual from the supplied reference photograph.

Preserve accurately:

- natural face shape
- face width
- face height
- forehead proportions
- eye shape
- eye size
- eye spacing
- eyelids
- eyebrow shape
- eyebrow placement
- nose length
- nose width
- nose position
- lip shape
- mouth width
- cheekbone structure
- jawline
- jaw width
- chin size
- chin position
- ears
- natural hairline
- skin tone
- apparent age
- distinctive facial asymmetry
- freckles
- moles
- scars
- other identity-defining facial characteristics

Do NOT redesign the face into a generic anime character.

Do NOT beautify, idealize, feminize, masculinize, de-age, slim, widen, sharpen, or otherwise redesign the person's natural facial anatomy.

The result should clearly feel like:

“THE SAME REAL PERSON, faithfully transformed into an authentic character from a late-1980s Japanese anime production.”

Facial identity is more important than stylistic exaggeration.

Do not inherit the clothing, pose, lighting, camera angle, environment, or background of the uploaded photograph.

Only preserve the person's identity, facial anatomy, recognizable hairstyle characteristics, skin tone, age, and defining features.

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2. CRITICAL FACIAL GEOMETRY
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The face must remain naturally proportioned and anatomically coherent.

NEVER:

- stretch the face vertically
- stretch the face horizontally
- elongate the face
- narrow the face unnaturally
- compress the skull
- enlarge the forehead
- extend the jaw
- move the chin
- bend the jawline
- warp the cheeks
- make one cheek longer than the other
- twist the face
- skew the facial axis
- make the face crooked
- distort the mouth
- move the nose off-center
- create mismatched eye sizes
- place the eyes on different facial planes
- create floating pupils
- create malformed eyelids
- create an artificial V-shaped jaw
- use fisheye facial distortion
- use extreme wide-angle facial perspective

Forehead, nose bridge, nose tip, philtrum, mouth center, and chin center must remain anatomically aligned.

A natural head angle is allowed.

Facial deformation is never allowed.

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3. EXACT SCENE CONCEPT
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Recreate a warm, intimate teenage bedroom in a quiet suburban home during the LATE 1980s.

The scene takes place during a peaceful late afternoon approaching golden hour.

The atmosphere should feel private, lived-in, personal, nostalgic, quiet, and emotionally warm.

It should NOT feel like a fashion shoot.

It should NOT feel posed.

It should feel like a candid moment from the character's everyday life.

Imagine a carefully preserved frame from a high-quality 1987–1989 Japanese theatrical anime or premium OVA.

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4. EXACT COMPOSITION
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VERTICAL 3:4 IMAGE.

Single image only.

No collage.

No comparison panel.

Camera approximately at seated eye level.

Medium-wide environmental composition.

The main character occupies the foreground and middle foreground, positioned slightly LEFT OF CENTER.

The full seated pose should remain clearly readable.

The character sits CROSS-LEGGED on top of a single bed.

One leg crosses naturally over the other.

The knees create a relaxed triangular composition.

The nearest white high-top sneaker appears prominently in the lower-middle foreground.

The bed fills most of the lower third of the image.

The character's upper body occupies the center-left area.

The character's head is approximately in the upper-middle-left portion of the frame.

The bedroom environment must remain fully visible around the subject.

The RIGHT side contains:

- CRT television
- VHS tapes
- wooden furniture
- study desk
- corded telephone
- red digital clock
- red desk lamp
- large sunlit window

The LEFT and upper-left areas contain:

- bed headboard
- wall posters
- photographs
- music memorabilia

The upper-middle background contains:

- tall wooden shelving
- cassette collection
- boombox
- trailing plant
- trophies

Keep the composition visually dense but organized.

Do not zoom tightly onto the face.

Do not turn this into a portrait.

The bedroom is equally important to the character.

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5. CHARACTER POSE
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The person is seated comfortably CROSS-LEGGED on the bed.

The torso leans very slightly forward.

Shoulders remain relaxed.

The posture should look casual and natural.

The person holds an OPEN TEEN MAGAZINE with both hands.

The magazine rests naturally above their lap.

The character appears to have been reading the magazine while listening to music.

The character gently raises their gaze toward the viewer/camera.

Expression:

- relaxed
- calm
- introspective
- slightly curious
- emotionally neutral
- subtle
- natural

No exaggerated smile.

No dramatic expression.

No fashion-model expression.

No exaggerated anime emotion.

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6. HEADPHONES
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The character wears authentic late-1980s WIRED ON-EAR HEADPHONES.

Design:

- dark black or charcoal headband
- circular silver-metallic earcup details
- slightly padded earcups
- visible black headphone cable

The headphone wire should descend naturally from the headphones, across the character's clothing and bed, toward the portable cassette player.

NO wireless headphones.

NO earbuds.

NO modern headphones.

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7. WARDROBE — LOCKED
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Dress the character in an authentic casual late-1980s teen outfit matching the reference scene.

TOP:

Oversized, slightly faded charcoal-gray / washed-gray sweatshirt or long-sleeve graphic top.

The shirt features a large vintage THE SMITHS band graphic.

“The Smiths” lettering should appear prominently across the upper chest.

Below the lettering is a faded monochrome band portrait graphic.

The shirt should look worn, soft, slightly oversized, and realistically draped.

BOTTOM:

Loose, relaxed-fit, light blue vintage denim jeans.

Slightly washed / acid-washed late-1980s denim texture.

Natural fabric folds around:

- knees
- thighs
- ankles
- crossed legs

SOCKS:

White or cream ribbed socks.

Slightly scrunched around the ankles.

SHOES:

Classic white canvas high-top sneakers inspired by period Converse-style footwear.

Details:

- white canvas
- white laces
- rubber toe cap
- thin red and dark blue midsole stripe
- slightly worn appearance

Everything must look naturally worn rather than newly styled.

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8. THE BED — LOCKED
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The character sits on a warm, cozy single bed.

Wooden bedframe.

Visible rounded wooden bedpost on the left.

The bed is covered with a richly textured late-1980s patterned quilt.

Quilt palette:

- dusty pink
- faded coral
- muted teal
- pale blue
- cream
- faded floral tones
- soft vintage pastel colors

The bedding should feel slightly rumpled and naturally used.

Include:

- soft pink pillow
- patterned pillow
- textured knitted blanket near the foreground edge

At the very bottom foreground, include a chunky woven or knitted throw blanket with visible fabric texture.

The bedding must occupy a substantial portion of the foreground.

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9. MAGAZINE — LOCKED
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The character is holding an open 1980s SEVENTEEN-style teen magazine.

The right-hand visible cover/page should prominently display:

“Seventeen”

in a bold vintage pink / magenta masthead.

Include a retro teenage portrait on the cover.

Include period-style yellow cover lines such as:

BOYS
FASHION
FRIENDS
YOUR FUTURE

The opposite open page contains additional teen portraits / fashion editorial imagery.

The magazine must look physically real:

- correct page thickness
- natural paper curvature
- proper hand contact
- believable perspective

Do not make the magazine float.

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10. LEFT WALL — EXACT VISUAL DENSITY
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The wall behind the character should be densely decorated with authentic teenage music and movie imagery from the 1980s.

Prominent upper-left poster:

A large black poster featuring THE SMITHS.

Design:

- black background
- large cream or white serif lettering reading “THE SMITHS”
- black-and-white band portrait

Next to it:

A vintage PRETTY IN PINK movie poster.

Include:

- pink palette
- female portrait
- handwritten/script-style pink “Pretty in Pink” title

Around these posters place many smaller items:

- band photographs
- music magazine cutouts
- film stills
- snapshots
- small posters
- postcards
- teenage magazine clippings

They should be pinned or taped imperfectly to the wall.

The layout should feel accumulated naturally over several years rather than professionally decorated.

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11. CENTRAL BACKGROUND SHELF
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Behind the character, near the center-left / center of the frame, place a tall narrow wooden shelving unit.

Wood should have a warm medium-brown finish.

Fill it densely with authentic late-1980s objects.

Include:

ROWS OF CASSETTE TAPES

Many cassette cases arranged vertically.

Some should have:

- printed labels
- handwritten labels
- colored spines
- clear plastic cases

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Mixed together naturally.

BOOMBOX

Place a silver / dark-gray late-1980s stereo boombox on an upper-middle shelf.

It should have:

- cassette deck
- radio tuner
- physical buttons
- speaker grille
- analog display

PLANT

A green trailing houseplant sits near the top shelf.

Long vines fall downward along the shelving.

TROPHIES

Several small gold-colored trophies stand on top of the shelving.

GLOBE

Place a small vintage desktop globe near the television side of the shelf.

Everything should appear slightly cluttered but believable.

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12. CENTRAL MOVIE POSTER
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On the upper-middle wall, immediately to the right of the shelving, place a large STAND BY ME poster.

Composition:

- blue sky
- distant mountains
- railroad tracks
- four silhouetted boys walking away from camera

At the bottom:

large red text:

“STAND BY ME”

The poster should be one of the strongest visual anchors in the upper background.

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13. CRT TELEVISION — LOCKED
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In the center-right background place a SMALL BLACK / DARK-GRAY CRT TELEVISION.

Authentic late-1980s design.

Features:

- thick plastic casing
- curved glass screen
- physical controls
- slightly bulky body

The television screen displays a BLUE-TINTED, GRAINY VHS-LIKE FILM IMAGE.

Show a silhouetted or side-profile human figure on screen.

The picture should look slightly soft and analog.

NO modern flat screen.

NO widescreen television.

NO modern UI.

Below the television place a black VHS PLAYER / VCR.

Include:

- cassette slot
- physical buttons
- small analog/digital display
- period-correct electronics styling

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14. VHS TAPES — LOCKED
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Stack several VHS tapes beside the CRT television.

Visible tape spine titles should include:

E.T.
The Breakfast Club
STAND BY ME

Cases should look old and slightly worn.

Use authentic 1980s VHS proportions.

Do not make them DVD cases.

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15. DESK — RIGHT SIDE
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A warm medium-brown WOODEN STUDY DESK fills much of the right-middle section.

Include drawers with small brass-colored handles.

The desk surface is naturally cluttered.

Include EXACTLY these types of objects:

RED DESK LAMP

A vintage adjustable desk lamp.

Bright red metal shade.

Angled downward toward the desk.

Warm light reflecting from its shade.

CORDED TELEPHONE

Cream / beige late-1980s landline telephone.

Large handset.

Physical buttons or dial-era styling appropriate to the late 1980s.

A visible curly/coiled cord.

DIGITAL CLOCK

Small dark digital alarm clock.

Bright red LED numbers.

The display reads:

4:27

PENCIL CUP

Small ceramic mug with a delicate floral print.

Inside:

- pencils
- pens

NOTEBOOKS

Several paper notebooks.

One open spiral notebook.

Visible handwritten notes or lines.

Loose papers nearby.

CASSETTES

Several cassette tapes and transparent cassette cases scattered naturally across the desk.

Additional small personal items may include:

- pencil
- eraser
- paper clips
- handwritten notes
- small photos

Do not over-modernize any object.

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16. WALKMAN AND CASSETTES — FOREGROUND
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On the bed in the lower-right foreground place a BLACK PORTABLE CASSETTE PLAYER.

Late-1980s Walkman-style design.

Rectangular body.

Visible physical buttons.

A headphone cable plugs into the unit.

Include subtle SONY-style period branding if readable.

Next to it place several transparent cassette cases.

Two particularly visible labels:

“The Smiths”

and

“R.E.M.”

Place another cassette or case slightly offset beneath them.

The headphone wire should snake naturally across the quilt.

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17. ADDITIONAL BEDROOM DETAILS
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Include another music or teen magazine lying partly visible in the lower-left foreground.

Its cover features a young musician / celebrity portrait.

Behind the main character include:

- pink pillow
- rumpled bedding

A wooden chair sits between the television and desk.

A faded blue denim jacket is casually draped over the chair back.

Add several small photographic prints around the television area.

Use these small imperfections to make the bedroom feel inhabited.

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18. WINDOW — MAJOR LIGHT SOURCE
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A large window occupies the UPPER-RIGHT portion of the composition.

The window is one of the dominant architectural features.

Use classic wooden / painted window framing.

Add plaid fabric curtains.

Curtain colors:

- dusty red
- muted blue
- cream
- subtle neutral stripes

The curtains should hang naturally on both sides.

The window looks out toward a QUIET AMERICAN-STYLE SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD in the late 1980s.

Visible outside:

- detached low-rise houses
- white or pale siding
- brick details
- green lawns
- driveway
- mature trees
- golden foliage
- quiet residential road
- parked boxy 1980s sedan

No modern vehicles.

No modern architecture.

No contemporary street furniture.

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19. LIGHTING — LOCKED
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The dominant light source is WARM LATE-AFTERNOON GOLDEN SUNLIGHT entering through the RIGHT WINDOW.

Sunlight direction:

RIGHT → LEFT.

Strongest warm highlights appear on:

- right side of hair
- edge of face
- sweatshirt folds
- bed
- desk
- wooden furniture

The light creates long, soft late-afternoon shadows.

Golden sunlight should catch individual larger shapes in the character's hair, but do not render thousands of photorealistic strands.

The character's face should remain clearly readable.

Do not overexpose the face.

Shadowed areas remain warm and soft.

The overall color temperature is amber-gold with cool muted blue accents from denim, television screen, and exterior sky.

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20. AUTHENTIC 1980s ANIME STYLE
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The finished image must genuinely look like artwork produced for a Japanese animation project between approximately 1986 and 1989.

NOT a modern anime image with a retro filter.

Use authentic traditional production logic:

- hand-inked contour lines
- slight line-weight variation
- clean animation drawing
- traditionally painted animation cels
- flat color fills
- limited highlight shapes
- restrained cel shadows
- mostly one clear shadow tone per surface
- simplified but accurate facial shading
- graphic hair masses
- slightly angular period character construction
- restrained eye proportions
- defined nose
- economical mouth construction
- painterly hand-painted background
- gouache-like environment rendering
- watercolor-like atmospheric transitions
- subtle brush variation
- manually constructed perspective
- analog compositing character
- slightly softened photographic cel edges

The CHARACTER should resemble a painted animation cel.

The BACKGROUND should resemble a traditionally painted animation background.

The background may be more painterly than the character.

The image should resemble:

- a premium late-1980s OVA frame
or
- a high-budget theatrical slice-of-life anime frame

Use subtle analog characteristics:

- gentle film grain
- tiny paint irregularities
- slight color fading
- minimal exposure variation
- modest cel-registration imperfection
- mild analog softness

These artifacts must remain subtle.

Authenticity should come from the DRAWING, COLOR, CEL SHADING, BACKGROUND PAINTING, AND PERIOD DESIGN — not from heavy fake VHS damage.

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21. COLOR PALETTE
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Use a coherent late-1980s warm interior palette.

Dominant colors:

- golden amber sunlight
- warm brown wood
- dusty gray clothing
- faded blue denim
- muted pink bedding
- cream walls
- warm coral accents
- soft teal
- dark charcoal
- small red accents
- slightly desaturated blue shadows

Colors should feel like traditional cel pigments photographed onto film.

Avoid modern HDR.

Avoid aggressively saturated digital colors.

Avoid orange-teal blockbuster grading.

Avoid neon cyberpunk colors.

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22. ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING
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Every visible object should reinforce the feeling that this is a REAL TEENAGER'S ROOM IN THE LATE 1980s.

The room should communicate:

- love of music
- love of movies
- collecting cassette tapes
- watching VHS movies
- reading teen magazines
- listening to music privately
- ordinary suburban teenage life

Nothing should feel decorative purely for aesthetic reasons.

Props should appear used, imperfectly arranged, and personally meaningful.

The room should feel as if the character has just spent the afternoon listening to music, reading magazines, rewinding tapes, and watching movies.

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23. HANDS AND ANATOMY
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Hands must be anatomically clean and believable.

Correct finger count.

Natural grip on the magazine.

Correct wrist direction.

Correct elbow placement.

Natural seated body weight.

Legs must physically contact the bed.

Shoes must connect correctly to feet.

No floating limbs.

No broken joints.

No duplicated hands.

No fused fingers.

If detail becomes difficult, simplify the drawing rather than deforming anatomy.

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24. BACKGROUND FIDELITY — VERY IMPORTANT
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Do NOT simplify the bedroom.

Do NOT remove major props.

Do NOT replace the detailed room with a generic anime bedroom.

Preserve the visual density and object placement as closely as possible.

The following must remain visible:

- The Smiths wall poster
- Pretty in Pink poster
- Stand By Me poster
- small music and movie photos
- wooden cassette shelf
- trailing plant
- trophies
- boombox
- globe
- CRT television
- VHS player
- E.T. VHS
- The Breakfast Club VHS
- Stand By Me VHS
- red desk lamp
- beige corded telephone
- digital clock reading 4:27
- pencil mug
- notebooks
- cassette tapes
- Sony-style portable cassette player
- The Smiths cassette
- R.E.M. cassette
- open teen magazine
- additional magazine on bed
- patterned quilt
- knitted foreground blanket
- denim jacket on chair
- plaid curtains
- suburban houses
- lawns
- golden trees
- parked 1980s car

The overall room arrangement must remain consistent from generation to generation.

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25. CAMERA AND LENS LOGIC
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Use a natural medium-wide perspective equivalent to approximately a 40–50mm full-frame lens.

No fisheye.

No ultra-wide lens.

No extreme perspective.

No excessive background blur.

Bedroom objects should remain readable.

Depth should come from:

- scale
- overlap
- atmospheric painting
- light
- value
- perspective

NOT from modern photographic bokeh.

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26. FINAL MOOD
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The final emotional impression should be:

warm
quiet
nostalgic
personal
cozy
slightly melancholic
youthful
authentic
unposed
cinematic

The viewer should feel as if they accidentally stepped into a peaceful late-1980s afternoon and found the character quietly reading a magazine while listening to music.

It should look like a LOST FRAME FROM AN AUTHENTIC LATE-1980s JAPANESE ANIME FILM.

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27. NEGATIVE PROMPT — STRICT
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No identity drift,
no generic anime face,
no replacement identity,
no facial redesign,
no beautification,
no de-aging,
no facial slimming,
no stretched face,
no elongated face,
no narrow face,
no vertically stretched head,
no horizontally stretched head,
no compressed skull,
no oversized forehead,
no extremely sharp chin,
no displaced chin,
no crooked jaw,
no warped jaw,
no stretched cheek,
no uneven cheeks caused by AI,
no crooked facial axis,
no twisted face,
no melted face,
no misaligned nose,
no displaced mouth,
no uneven eyes,
no mismatched eye sizes,
no floating pupils,
no warped eyelids,
no fisheye distortion,
no extreme facial perspective,
no giant modern anime eyes,
no excessive glossy eye highlights,
no moe proportions,
no VTuber aesthetics,
no gacha-game style,
no modern isekai style,
no modern mobile-game illustration,
no glossy digital anime finish,
no airbrushed skin,
no photorealistic skin pores,
no 3D anime,
no CGI,
no vector-perfect lines,
no ray-traced lighting,
no modern cinematic bloom,
no HDR,
no aggressive rim light,
no blue-purple cyberpunk lighting,
no magenta neon,
no smartphone,
no laptop,
no tablet,
no wireless earbuds,
no smartwatch,
no flat-screen television,
no LED monitor,
no LED light strips,
no contemporary furniture,
no modern car,
no contemporary architecture,
no holographic interface,
no modern UI,
no DVD cases replacing VHS tapes,
no Bluetooth speakers,
no modern clothing,
no modern sneakers,
no minimalist bedroom,
no empty walls,
no missing background details,
no missing posters,
no missing desk,
no missing CRT television,
no missing cassette player,
no missing window,
no missing VHS tapes,
no distorted hands,
no extra fingers,
no fused fingers,
no extra limbs,
no broken joints,
no floating objects,
no incorrect object contact,
no impossible perspective,
no photographic background mixed with anime character,
no artificial depth-of-field blur,
no heavy VHS interference,
no huge film scratches,
no extreme grain,
no chromatic aberration overload,
no subtitles,
no caption,
no watermark,
no logo overlay,
no gallery title,
no border,
no collage,
no comparison panel.

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28. FINAL QUALITY CHECK
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Before finalizing, verify:

The person still unmistakably resembles the uploaded reference photograph.

The face retains its natural width and height.

The face is NOT elongated.

The face is NOT stretched.

The face is NOT crooked.

The face is NOT warped.

Both eyes belong to the same facial plane.

The nose, mouth, and chin remain correctly aligned.

The jawline is natural.

The hairstyle does not distort the skull.

The seated anatomy is physically believable.

The hands correctly hold the magazine.

The crossed legs are anatomically correct.

The background contains all major locked objects.

The lighting comes consistently from the right-side window.

The bedroom still looks like the same late-1980s bedroom.

The artwork genuinely resembles authentic hand-drawn 1980s Japanese animation.

There are NO visible modern objects.

There is NO modern digital anime polish.

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FINAL OUTPUT
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Create ONE finished image only.

Aspect ratio: EXACT VERTICAL 3:4.

No text overlay.

No explanatory text.

No border.

No collage.

Preserve the identity from the uploaded photograph while recreating this same detailed late-1980s anime bedroom scene as consistently as possible.

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