General description

Style LoRA based on illustrations by iwamushi (岩虫).

Flat print color, muted sandy and olive palettes, rough uneven linework, grainy halftone texture.

Available for four bases — pick the version that matches your model:

• Anima v8 — trigger @iwamushi (recommended)

• Anima v5 — trigger @iwamushi (previous version, darker and rougher)

• Illustrious — trigger iwamushi

• Krea 2 — trigger @iwamushi. (new — natural-language prompts)

• Pony — trigger iwamushi (new — 1.0 works on both base Pony and merges)

This is a style, not a character — name the character you actually want.

Not an official model by the artist.

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Anima v8

Trigger: @iwamushi (put it at the start of the prompt)

Recommended style tags:

rough uneven linework, halftone texture

LoRA strength: 1.0

Tips

• Don't add color tags like "olive muted palette" — they tint clothes olive-yellow. The LoRA already carries the palette.

• Avoid the word "dirty" in texture tags — it paints stains on clothing.

• If you ever see an "@iwamushi" signature in a corner, add signature to the negative prompt.

What changed since v5

• Dataset grew from 79 to 112 images: new works added, low-res previews replaced with high-res originals, off-style pieces (neon, UI-heavy, 3D-like) removed.

• Much less Re:Zero bias — characters stay on-model more often (hair color, outfits).

• Noticeably more detail: backgrounds, clothing, lighting and shadows.

• Handles complex scenes better: multiple characters, crowds, detailed interiors.

• Warmer, sandier tone, closer to the artist's originals.

Epoch 7 of 8 (784 steps), not the final epoch.

Training

Base: Anima Base v1.0. DiT with AdaLN trained, text encoder and LLM adapter frozen.

Rank/alpha 16/16 · 112 images · 1024 res, buckets 512–1536 · AdamW8bit · LR 5e-5, constant, 5% warmup

Trained on Anima Base v1.0 only. Behavior on Anima Turbo and third-party merges is unknown.

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Anima v5

Previous version. Superseded by v8, which has more detail and handles complex scenes better. v5 is kept for its darker, rougher look.

Trigger: @iwamushi (put it at the start of the prompt)

Optional style tags: flat print color, olive muted palette, rough uneven linework, dirty halftone texture

Epoch 6 of the v5 run (474 steps), not the final epoch.

Training

Base: Anima Base v1.0. DiT with AdaLN trained, text encoder and LLM adapter frozen.

Rank/alpha 16/16 · 79 images · 1024 res, buckets 512–1536 · AdamW8bit · LR 5e-5, constant, 5% warmup

Trained on Anima Base v1.0 only. Behavior on Anima Turbo and third-party merges is unknown.

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Illustrious

Trigger: iwamushi (put it first, then regular Danbooru tags). No style tags needed.

Recommended:

• LoRA 1.0 (up to 1.2)

• euler_a, 30 steps, CFG 5–6

Epoch 16 of 24 (640 steps), not the final epoch.

Training

Base: Illustrious XL v2.0. UNet and text encoder trained.

Rank/alpha 32/16, conv 16/8 · 79 images · 1024 res, buckets 512–2048 · batch 2 · AdamW8bit · UNet LR 1e-4, TE LR 1e-5, constant, 5% warmup · min SNR 5 · noise offset 0.03

Tested on WAI-Illustrious v16, Hyphoria v0.02 and Nova Anime XL il v1.9.

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Krea 2

Trigger: @iwamushi. at the very start, then describe the scene in plain sentences. No tags, no style words needed.

Prompt template:

@iwamushi. <who or what>, <what they are doing>, <where>, <light and mood>.

Example: @iwamushi. Guts from Berserk in battered black armor sits by a small campfire at night, his huge sword leaning against a rock, embers rising into the dark, his face lit only by the fire.

LoRA strength: 1.0 (0.8–1.2)

• Below 0.8 Krea starts writing "@iwamushi" in a corner — it reads the trigger as a social-media handle. The LoRA at full strength suppresses it.

• Above 1.2 outfits and small details drift toward the training images.

Recommended:

• Krea 2 Turbo, 8 steps, CFG 1, euler / simple

• Native resolution, about 1 MP: 832×1248, 1248×832 or 1024×1024. No hires pass needed.

Tips

• Atmosphere is where it shines: dusk, rain, firelight, fog, night streets.

• Turbo gives very similar images across seeds — change the wording of the prompt for variety instead of rerolling.

• Neon signs and other written text come out as made-up letters (base model behavior).

Epoch 6 of 12 (1344 steps), not the final epoch — later epochs start copying signatures and outfits from the dataset.

Training

Base: Krea 2 Raw. LoRA on the DiT.

Rank/alpha 32/32 · 112 images, each with a long and a short natural-language caption · 1024 res, buckets · batch 1 · AdamW8bit · LR 1e-4, constant · flow shift 2.5

Tested on Krea 2 Turbo (fp8).

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Pony

LoRA strength: 1.0 — a balanced default for both base Pony and merges.

• Pony Diffusion V6 XL: ~0.8 if colors get heavy or red.

• AutismMix and other Pony merges: up to 1.5 for a stronger style.

Trigger: iwamushi (right after the score tags). No style tags needed.

Prompt template:

score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, score_5_up, score_4_up, source_anime, iwamushi, <your tags>

Recommended:

• DPM++ 2M Karras, 30 steps, CFG 5–6, clip skip 2

• A 1.5× hires pass at denoise ~0.45 makes a big difference on Pony.

• Negative: score_6, score_5, score_4, source_pony, source_furry, source_cartoon, 3d, realistic, signature, artist name

Tips

• Too much strength on base V6 (above ~1.2) turns everything muddy red-brown — lower it.

• Pony struggles with hands in this style — poses with hands in pockets, arms behind back or portraits work best.

• Closest to the artist's look is still Anima v8; the Pony version is a lighter take on the style.

Epoch 16 (944 steps), final epoch.

Training

Base: Pony Diffusion V6 XL. UNet and text encoder trained, clip skip 2.

Rank 32, conv 16, alpha scaled ×1.3 after training (32/20.8, conv 16/10.4) so 1.0 is the balanced strength · 112 images, Danbooru tags · 1024 res, buckets 512–2048 · batch 2 · AdamW8bit · UNet LR 1e-4, TE LR 1e-5, constant, 5% warmup · min SNR 5 · noise offset 0.03

Tested on Pony Diffusion V6 XL and AutismMix Pony.