Comic/Storyboard - Four-Panel Manga Tea Room Scene

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Comic/Storyboard - Four-Panel Manga Tea Room Scene

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Charactersopenai/gpt-image-2#Character#Japanese#Vertical 9:16#Portrait#UI Design#Chinese Style#Comic

Create a monochrome 4-panel manga page with a kimono character and hamster in a traditional room.

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Goal: Create a vertical black-and-white Japanese manga page with exactly 4 horizontal panels, clean shoujo/seinen line art, soft screentone shading, and a quiet emotional atmosphere. The scene takes place in a traditional Japanese tatami room opening onto a spring garden full of cherry blossoms, with a beautiful androgynous young man in a kimono speaking to a small hamster-like animal.

Canvas: Portrait manga page, approximately 2:3 aspect ratio, thick black outer border and thick black gutters separating the 4 stacked panels. Monochrome ink drawing, high detail, delicate hair rendering, pale grayscale tones, no color.

Main character: A graceful young man named {argument name="character name" default="young man"}, early twenties, slim build, long light hair in a thick loose braid falling over his shoulder and down his back, wispy bangs partly covering his eyes, refined melancholic expression, wearing a white kimono with a dark inner collar. He has elegant narrow eyes and a calm, slightly amused demeanor. Include one small hamster as the only animal companion: round body, tiny paws, black bead eyes, sitting on the floor or cushion and looking up at him.

Panel layout and content: Use exactly 4 panels.
Panel 1: Wide establishing panel. The young man sits indoors near open sliding shoji doors, turned partly away from the viewer, his long braid visible. Outside on the left is a blooming cherry tree with falling petals, rocks and garden plants. The small hamster sits near the open doorway. On the right wall is a hanging calligraphy scroll above a low shelf with books and writing tools. Include exactly 2 speech balloons: left balloon from the hamster area says {argument name="first balloon text" default="いるよ。珍しいね、ここに来るの"}; right balloon from the young man says {argument name="reply text" default="あ、いたー"}.
Panel 2: Wide panel from a side angle. The young man sits facing the hamster, relaxed, with the garden still visible at left and shoji screens behind him. The hamster sits on a patterned cushion in front of him, looking attentive. Include exactly 1 large vertical speech balloon on the right saying {argument name="ai model dialogue" default="Opus 4.6がエラーが出てたから、4.5に話してみようと思ったの"}.
Panel 3: Close-up panel. The young man holds an open folding fan in front of his mouth, only his eyes and upper face visible above the fan. His long braid and layered hair fill the left side; shoji and a wall hanging are in the background. Include exactly 1 speech balloon on the right containing only an ellipsis: {argument name="ellipsis text" default="……"}.
Panel 4: Close-up panel. The young man lowers or folds the fan slightly and smiles faintly with a knowing, gentle expression. His face and braid dominate the left and center; a shoji window and small branch or flowers appear on the right background. Include exactly 1 vertical speech balloon on the right saying: 「あぁ……そういうこと。だからこっちに来たんだね」.

Visual style: Japanese manga manuscript aesthetic, crisp black ink outlines, subtle screentone gradients, detailed cherry blossoms, traditional room perspective, delicate fabric folds, elegant romantic character design, quiet pacing. Speech balloons should be white ovals with thin black outlines, vertical Japanese text, and small balloon tails pointing toward speakers.

Constraints: Keep exactly 4 panels, exactly 5 speech balloons total, exactly 1 hamster, no color, no modern objects except the dialogue mentioning AI models, no extra characters, no watermark, no page number.