50+ Best Midjourney Anime Prompts (both V5 & Niji Mode) - AiTuts (2023)

Transparent Vinyl Clothing

As it turns out, rainbow refractions on transparent clothing is something Niji Mode is amazing at. Here’s a smattering of prompts that will help you achieve that style:

• transparent color vinyl
• transparent PVC
• iridescent opaque thin film RGB
• reflective clothing
• chromatic aberration
• holographic
• prismatic

You can use them all at once, however this creates an overwhelming result. We recommend you pick and use 2-3 that you like the best. Here are some examples you can experiment with:

girl, anime, looking at viewer, bubbles, highly detailed, reflective transparent iridescent opaque jacket, long transparent iridescent RGB hair –ar 3:2

girl, anime, looking at viewer with a cigarette in her mouth, highly detailed, reflections transparent iridescent opaque jacket, long transparent iridescent RGB hair –ar 3:2

pixiv, hyper detailed, harajuku fasion, futuristic fashion, anime girl, headphone, colorful reflective fabric inner, transparent PVC jacket, backpack --ar 2:3

transparent color PVC clothing, transparent color vinyl clothing, prismatic, holographic, chromatic aberration, fashion illustration, masterpiece, girl with harajuku fashion, looking at viewer, 8k, ultra detailed, pixiv

masterpiece, 1girl, on train, masterpiece, anime, sadboi, aesthetic, transparent color vinyl jacket, highly detailed, reflections, transparent iridescent opaque rgb girl, chromatic aberration jacket

Retro Anime Styles

Althoughthe animation was grainier and less crisp, a painstaking amount of attention went into the style and art direction of 80s and 90s anime. Try the following designers and directors:

• Yoshiyuki Sadamoto – Founder of Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Hayao Miyazaki – Founder of Studio Ghibli (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away)
• Toshihiro Kawamoto – Founder of Bones (Cowboy Bebop)
• Yoshiaki Kawajiri – Director of Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
• Tsukasa Hojo – Creator of City Hunter
• Naoko Takeuchi – Creator of Sailor Moon

You can also add:

• 1980s anime, 1990s anime, retro anime, anime screencap

80s anime still, office girl at desk, muted pastel colors, Yoshiaki Yoshiaki Kawajiri --ar 3:2

80s anime still, man and woman having coffee at a coffeeshop, retro fashion, muted pastel colors, by Tsukasa Hojo and Toshihiro Kawamoto --ar 3:2

80s anime still, delinquent fixing a motorbike, retro fashion, muted retro colors, CRT tv display, by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Tsukasa Hojo and Toshihiro Kawamoto --ar 3:2

80s anime still, girl fixing a mech, retro fashion, muted retro colors, style of Dragons Heaven --ar 3:2

Character Design & Concept Sheets

These help designers keep characters consistent across different poses, angles and expressions. Try beginning your prompts with:

• expression sheet
• character design sheet
• character turnaround sheet
• dress-up sheet / fashion sheet
• items sheet / accessories
• character pose sheet
• concept art sheet

Mix and match any of the above.

80s anime still, girl fixing a mech, retro fashion, muted retro colors, style of Dragons Heaven --ar 3:2

character design sheet, magical girl blue hair --ar 3:2

character turnaround sheet, magical girl --ar 3:2

Gorgeous Anime Backgrounds

These will look fantastic whether you are making a game or a visual novel. Here are some directors to try:

• Makoto Shinkai, The Garden of Words
• Taiyo Matsumoto, Tekkonkinkreet
• Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira

relaxing cafe in Tokyo, style of Makoto Shinkai The Garden of Words, aesthetically pleasing, muted color scheme --ar 3:2

empty classroom, style of Makoto Shinkai The Garden of Words, aesthetically pleasing, muted color scheme --ar 3:2

aerial shot of city, anime background, style of Makoto Shinkai The Garden of Words --ar 3:2

anime background, busy downtown street, style of tekkonkinkreet --ar 3:2

Figurines & Toys

Hyper realistic photographs of toys! Using the base prompt: “figurine of…”, you can try modifying with:

• In class display case
• made of plastic
• made of polyester putty
• studio lighting
• with box
• funkopop

toy figurine of saber from fate/stay night --ar 2:3

figurine of iron man, highly detailed, made of matte clay, deep shadows, studio lighting --ar 2:3

Using an Image in the Prompt

Here’s one of the coolest things you can do: use an image in your prompt AKA Img2Img.

If you like the design, composition, theme, pose, or colors of an existing illustration, use it as part of your prompt and watch Niji Journey magically take the most appealing elements and apply them to a new image.

Here’s an example:

We love the composition and colors of this image, and want to create a similar image, say, with Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

We’ll use this image as the first part of our prompt, and use the rest of the prompt to specify a new character:

[LINK TO ORIGINAL IMAGE] Rei from Evangelion --ar 3:2

All you have to do is swap the character name:

[LINK TO ORIGINAL IMAGE] Zero Two from Darling in the Franxx --ar 3:2

[LINK TO ORIGINAL IMAGE] Killua from Hunter X Hunter --ar 3:2

You can do this by pasting a link to the image in your prompt.

If you only have the image locally, you need to send the original image to the Niji Journey bot. Then right click the image > “Copy Link”. Paste this link as the first part of your prompt.

Img2Img in Niji Journey is amazing, by far the best of any anime generator we’ve seen so far. It merges stylistic elements in beautiful, often unexpected ways.

Turning Real Life into Anime

We’re using the same Img2img process as before.

You can choose how far you want the new image to be from the original using the prompt.

gold color theme, masterpiece, stylish anime girl with long blonde hair, facing the camera, detailed pupils, depth of field --ar 3:2

Turning Real Life into Manga

Same as above, but turning things into manga-style instead of anime.

We’re going to be using prompt weights here. If you add “::-1” after certain words, the generator will try to avoid those elements. Here we negative prompt “photograph” to get the generated image further away from realistic photography.

Rough Sketches

Raw and evocative rouch sketches:

Gainax, Hideaki Anno's rough sketch style, mecha battle, gloomy atmosphere, psychological conflict, interchangeable subject, close-up on face, tears streaming down the cheeks, the mecha's eyes glowing red in the background. --q 2 --niji

Gainax, Hideaki Anno's rough sketch style, mecha battle, gloomy atmosphere, psychological conflict, image foreground is a field of daisy flowers, close-up on face, tears streaming down the cheeks, the mecha's eyes glowing red in the background. --ar 2:1 --q 2 --niji

Removing and adding some of these keywords can help reduce or increase the effect!

• Gainax
• Hideaki Anno’s rough sketch style
• mecha battle
• gloomy atmosphere, psychological conflict

Gainax, Hideaki Anno's rough sketch style, sunny day, bright atmosphere, psychological conflict, image foreground is a field of daisy flowers, close-up on face, tears streaming down the cheeks. --ar 2:1 --q 2 --niji