NeoTokyo — 90s Vintage Cel-Shaded Anime (Illustrious-XL)

NeoTokyo is a custom merge combining BoozIllustrious V1 with an in-house trained 90s cel-shading LoRA directly into the base checkpoint. Built on top of the Illustrious-XL (IL-XL) architecture, it is designed to capture the authentic, hand-painted aesthetic of late 1980s and 1990s Japanese animation (classic OVAs, retro cyberpunk, urban slice of life, and vintage fantasy).

No trigger words needed : just prompt normally with standard Danbooru tags. The retro cel-shaded style applies automatically while keeping full character and outfit accuracy.

Key Strengths & Features

• Native Illustrious-XL Compatibility: Full Danbooru tagging support, excellent character recognition, outfit flexibility, and LoRA interoperability.

• 100% Passive Cel-Shading: Direct prompt rendering with bold ink outlines, cel shading, and subtle analog film grain straight out of the box.

• Pure 2D Finish: Eliminates modern plastic/3D gloss in favor of classic animation cel textures.

• Rock-Solid Anatomy: Clean facial features and reliable hand/finger rendering on complex poses.

Recommended Settings

• Base Architecture: Illustrious-XL / SDXL

• Sampling Method: DPM++ 2M

• Schedule Type: Karras

• Sampling Steps: 30

• CFG Scale: 4.5

• Initial Resolution: 896 × 1152

• Clip Skip: 2

Hires. fix (Recommended for best quality)

• Upscaler: R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B

• Upscale by: 1.5 (Final: 1344 × 1728)

• Hires Steps: 20

• Denoising Strength: 0.35

Negative Prompt:

worst quality, low quality, 3d, render, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, bad hands, extra fingers, missing fingers