#retromagic

Recently YouTube's recommendation algorithm pushed a 1996 arcade game, "Janken Game Acchi Muite Hoi! (Rock-Paper-Scissors, Look Over Here!/ジャンケンゲーム、あっち向いてホイ)", onto the homepage. One of the combat characters shown in the game's idle animation is a high school girl named tomomi, drawn by artist Akio Watanabe. As the character animation is very cute, it became a small hit on X as well.

Note: This so-called rock-paper-scissors game is where, after both sides show their choices, the winner shouts “Look over here!” while pointing in one of four directions—up, down, left, or right. If the loser turns their head to the same direction the winner pointed, they lose. It's basically an expanded version of a party game.

This time I grabbed onto the character's popularity and quickly made a few full-body images of JK characters as well.

So images 1–3 are the three different JKs I found from this search, and images 4–6 are pictures that more closely reflect the original game's style.

I used the following prompt this time:

Redraw this picture in TV animation art style, change to side view.

Using 'HD restoration of this image in a large scale' to enhance and restore low-resolution magazine images. Since the model excels at alphanumeric characters, it may require minor adjustments for Japanese kanji, hiragana, and katakana.

The four works above were achieved using several techniques:

Repeatedly referencing the original line art to color the artwork,

Filling in areas with incorrect details to modify them based on the correct artwork,

Creating a full-body character illustration from this angle by referencing other perspectives of the character, and the simplest two methods:

Modifying actions and expressions through natural language.

HD restoration.

*The second image was colored using line art techniques only without far more adjustment.

'Magic' can effectively process scanned image (2nd) to restore them to a state closer to the original.

Just using nature language like:

A way to generate different art style pictures of the same character (in different age).

Routine:

prompt: 'Draw a 18-years-old version of the girl in this picture, and change her pose to idle pose.' (3rd picture)

Make some picture contains two girls, another girl need to be in different artstyle. (Girl A(1st picture, left) is leaning over Girl B(2nd picture, right) , who is lying on her back, while Girl A props herself up on one elbow and gently caresses Girl B's neck with her other hand as they gaze at each other.) (4th picture)

prompt: 'Extract Girl A in this picture and change her pose into idle pose in front view.' (1st picture)

This time's I pick features fictional female jockeys from the horse-racing(?) game 'Winning Post 2 Final 97'. Besides having some independent storylines in the game, these two girls also have more outfits than other jockeys: one is a casual wear, and the other is a dress worn for celebratory parties like the Grand Slam.

5th picture shows the original in-game images of the two. The base resolution is roughly that size.