Midnight Cel (深夜セル): Surreal late-night retro anime style

A flat retro anime cel look with a tight crimson and teal palette: clean ink lines, flat shading, deep near-black shadows and a quiet, slightly uncanny mood.

No trigger words needed. Just describe your scene in plain words and the LoRA does the rest.

See Article on how to get the most out of this LoRA:
https://civarchive.com/articles/38727/midnight-cel-from-calm-to-fever-dream

Quick start

• Base: Krea 2 Turbo, 8 steps, CFG 1, Euler / Simple

• Strength: 1.0 (0.8 = softer and lets more of Krea's own look through)

• Hires (recommended): latent upscale ×1.5, 4 steps, denoise 0.4

• Optional polish: Detail Slider 0.4 + Aesthetic Masterpiece 0.3

The example workflow (SchmusPhantom_MidnightCel_workflow.json) has all of this wired up.

What it does well

• Turns any subject into the style: cats, portraits, shops at night, classrooms, landscapes

• The palette: teal and mint against crimson and pink, with flat skies and walls

• Masks, ghosts, silhouettes and quiet uncanny scenes

• Surreal and psychedelic: eyes, mandalas, melting rooms, floating creatures

Good to know

• Signs and screens may get garbled text (Krea does the same without the LoRA).

• It pulls everything toward its palette: if you ask for a blue sky or a yellow coat you'll usually get them, but darker and tinted.

Prompting tips

• Describe content, light and mood; color words still work ("a yellow raincoat", "a red sun").

• Uncanny details help a lot in emphasizing the look: masks, closed eyes, empty places at night, one small figure in a big space.

• Symmetric, centered compositions work very well.

Thanks for checking out my LoRA and I hope you find it helpful in your artworks.
Feel free to leave some feedback or let me know what could be improved. 🫶