Nova Anime AM, CottonAnima, AMIXA2.9B, and JANIMA 2.9B tested on an M1 Max 64GB in ComfyUI with an Anima-Base character LoRA remapped to 40 blocks. All four kept the hairstyles, but Kei's red ribbon tie turned navy in portraits. Also compares default style, background density, i2i, and speed.
I ran the latest 2B versions (as of October 21) of Hikari, AnimaIka, Hotaru Blend, Cat Tower, CapAnima, RDBT, and AnimaYume in ComfyUI on an M1 Max 64GB, using the same prompts, seed, and character LoRA as Anima-Base v1.0. All seven got the hairstyles right, but only RDBT kept Kei's ribbon tie red in both full-body and bust shots, and RDBT turned two characters into four. Default style, background density, i2i, and generation speed are compared too.
I rechecked the latest versions of the Anima derivatives from my June list, plus Civitai's top 40 Anima checkpoints by monthly downloads, as of October 21, 2026. Which 2B models were updated, which moved to 2.9B, and why the two 3.8B models are built differently.
I compared official Anima Turbo v1.1 and Aesthetic v1.1 against Base v1.0 on an M1 Max 64GB with ComfyUI. Base-trained character LoRAs worked across all 4 seeds when specifying hair and eyes, but Aesthetic v1.1 spawned extra characters in two-character prompts and Turbo v1.0 missed ribbon colors.
A hands-on log of turning a Sony SGP611 running LineageOS into an always-on WebView kiosk that shows CO₂ readings and Anima-generated images and draws a new picture when you talk to it. Covers front-camera heat, light-sensor screen-off, volume resetting to max, and a beep that never played.
A local evaluation of MOSS-Image Base and SFT on an M1 Max Mac using MPS, examining prompt behavior for character portraits, text rendering, JSON layout placement, and comparisons with earlier Qwen and Anima generations.
Tested Qwen-Image 2.1 open weights on M1 Max 64GB: overhead shots work locally, ~10 min per 832×1216 image (2x+ Anima), and i2i kept the face. Same prompts as my Anima/WAI tests.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB with plain Anima-Base v1.0. A red-to-blue residual direction added to one of Blocks 24-27 flips a flat image, but on a hair mask it paints a blue slab. No hair-only direction found.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB, ComfyUI v0.30.1: i2i and Qwen-Image-Edit lost the character, so I rebuilt the pose one prompt at a time, plus why negatives do nothing at cfg 1.0.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB, ComfyUI v0.33.3: from-behind and a back-row drummer now pass, out-of-frame crops get worse, and Anima-Base LoRAs need a 52-block key remap.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB with MLX: LLaMA Pro-style block expansion on Qwen3-0.6B-Base vs LoRA vs full FT, trained on 722 blog posts. Held-out PPL drops 14.7 to 10.5, but Wikipedia-ja rises 13.5 to 17.9, more forgetting than full FT. A 20% Wikipedia mix nearly removes it, and renumbering 28-layer LoRA keys reproduces the Anima-2.9B result in numbers.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB, ComfyUI v0.33.3. Anima-2.9B inserts 12 DiT blocks, so Anima-Base LoRA keys hit the wrong layers with zero warnings, 0/3. Renumbering the keys gives 3/3.
