Retro 90s Anime Cel Style (City Pop Aesthetic)

1990s retro anime style illustration of {{subject}} {{doing_what}}, hand-painted cel animation look, flat colors with hard shadow shapes, painterly gouache-textured sky in {{sky_palette}} gradient, detailed background architecture with visible painted brushwork, thin clean linework, subtle VHS softness and slight chromatic fringing at the frame edges, nostalgic city pop album cover mood, wide cinematic framing with the subject small against the environment --ar 16:9 --niji --style raw Style notes: - The look lives in the contrast between FLAT character shading (two tones max: base + one shadow shape) and PAINTERLY backgrounds. If characters come out rendered/glossy, add "limited two-tone cel shading, no gradients on the character". - {{sky_palette}} sets the era-mood: "peach to lavender dusk" (romantic), "teal to deep navy night with sodium streetlights" (melancholy), "clear cerulean noon" (slice-of-life). - Use --niji (Midjourney's anime model) for this style; on the standard model swap to --v 7 and expect a more western cartoon read. - For a series, lock every style phrase and vary only {{subject}}, {{doing_what}} and {{sky_palette}} — cel-era consistency is the aesthetic. - Kill the VHS phrases ("VHS softness", "chromatic fringing") for print use; keep them for social, where they sell the period instantly.