Super-Based Japanese Manga (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: BAP / Mishima / Otomo / Inoue / Miura sovereign-vitalist manga aesthetic. Preserves source-image subject, swaps medium to high-contrast B&W ink panel.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a single full-bleed Japanese manga panel in the lineage of Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond), Kentaro Miura (Berserk), and Ryoichi Ikegami. Black and white only, no color. Ultra-fine 0.1mm ink linework, dense crosshatching for shadow, screentone halftone for midtones, paper-white highlights, deep ink blacks. Dramatic chiaroscuro lighting from a single hard directional source. High contrast, cinematic depth, zero background flatness. Composition framed like a key splash page: deliberate negative space, gravitas over motion, stillness charged with implied force. Mood: solemn, sovereign, pre-violent, vitalist, masculine, sun-cult. No speech bubbles, no text, no onomatopoeia, no panel borders, no logos, no watermark. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source. Treat every surface as if drawn by hand with a steel nib pen on heavy paper.
Tuning knobs
- Color break: add `single accent of rising-sun red on one element only, rest pure black and white`
- Intensity dial:
- Heavy: `Berserk-tier dense crosshatching`
- Light: `Taiyo Matsumoto loose ink wash`
- Precise: `Naoki Urasawa clean clinical line`
- Era register:
- `Showa-era yakuza pulp`
- `Meiji-period woodblock-influenced`
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