Anima is a Cosmos-based DiT, not SDXL, so one Anima LoRA loads on every derivative checkpoint. 20+ CivitAI Anima models sorted by type, aesthetic, and prompt adherence.
Tested on M1 Max ComfyUI: two WAI-Anima character LoRAs in one image. Side-by-side works, but only non-overlapping inpaint keeps the design pixel-exact; Qwen-Image-Edit elongates the side ponytail even with training tags, and overlapping interaction poses jam at skeleton extraction.
WAI-Anima LoRA trained only on images the model itself made. Distribution shift drops to ~zero, so the sweet spot hits epoch 20 not 150 (7.5x faster). What the trigger bakes in vs what still needs tags, plus pose/angle control.
Tested on ComfyUI with Anima Turbo LoRA: hair intakes don't fire from the single tag. The 27-condition recipe — character NL reference + negative identity strip + (hair intakes:1.5) + 22.5° upper-front camera — also revealed the generic prompt was accidentally a Blue Archive character spec, and that Kanon's whole female cast has intakes as a cluster prior.
On M1 Max with Anima-Base v1.0 and WAI-Anima v1: the official negative is short. Trim the long Illustrious bad-hands list, move structure to positive tags, keep `safe` upfront.
Ran WAI-Anima v1.0 with a custom character LoRA on an M1 Mac to see if 2- and 3-character compositions actually hold up. Notes on what breaks and what holds at different LoRA weights, with practical settings that stay stable.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB: SetLatentNoiseMask returns unchanged images on Anima and Anima-Turbo with no error. LanPaint alone takes 32 min per image; adding Inpaint-CropAndStitch drops text inpaint to 2:31 and clothing replacement to about 7 min.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: Anima-Base v1.0 matches preview3-base in speed; WAI-Anima kana LoRA hits 22% on light prompts but 67% with hood+robe+embroidery added.
A verification log for converting color anime-style AI illustrations to manga-style monochrome. AI re-generation approaches lean to either color leakage or face drift, and pure deterministic local processing looks mechanical. Frames the next directions to try: putting a grayscale-only LoRA on Anima, and using See-through for part decomposition before mechanical composition.
With v3 captions kept as-is and only the training amount pushed up to Anima's official 12,000+ step recommendation, the direction hit rate went 100% at ep150-180, crashed to 0% at ep200, then partially recovered to 67% at ep227 — a non-monotonic curve. 600-720 exposures per training image is the sweet spot; over 800 triggers catastrophic forgetting. Learning rate 2e-5, ~11 hours / $10 of RunPod training plus a sweet-spot epoch scan.
Records of rewriting captions for the 53 training images for the WAI-Anima character LoRA retrain after side ponytail direction control failed last time. Wrote position information into natural language so Qwen3 TE could pick it up, and dropped the IL-era strategy of absorbing the entire hairstyle into the single 'kanachan' trigger by promoting hairstyle to independent Danbooru tags. Includes notes on year tag necessity, the bikini/nude swapped-caption discovery, and blazer color recognition drift.
