Retro Cel 90 for Illustrious: the look of 1990s TV anime. Flat two-tone cel shading, thin even lines, hard shadow shapes on faces and warm, faded colour. It is an original style trained on self-generated images, not on any show, studio or artist. The MOSS Image version is at https://civarchive.com/models/3038971.

How to prompt: start with "retrocel90" and follow it with short Danbooru tags, for example "retrocel90, 1girl, solo, adult, mature female, short hair, red scarf, rooftop, from side, cowboy shot, sunset, muted colors". Keep the prompt short. Every gallery image was rendered with "muted colors" in the prompt.

Strength: 1.0.

Tested with ComfyUI on iLustMix v11.1 by GZees, the checkpoint it was trained on: dpmpp_2m / karras, 30 steps, CFG 5, clip skip 2, 832x1216, loaded with LoraLoaderModelOnly. Other Illustrious checkpoints were not tested.

Training: kohya sd-scripts on iLustMix v11.1, 42 images, rank 32, alpha 16, UNet only, 1008 steps, tag captions with the trigger first.

Known limits: bright daylight scenes run more saturated than real 90s footage, with deep blue and purple shadows. Landscapes read as flat washes, closer to a print than to a painted background, and fog tends to disappear.