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Art style: Feature-film-quality hand-drawn anime aesthetic, expressive linework, detailed painted backgrounds, cel shading, atmospheric moonlight. Medium side-on shot on the bridge. The OPPOSING SWORDSMAN is mid-charge from the right, his katana raised overhead in both hands. The SAMURAI is on the left, his right hand on the tsuka and his katana sheathed at his left hip. Moonlight, mist, and drifting red leaves fill the frame. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Feature-film-quality hand-drawn anime aesthetic, expressive linework, detailed painted backgrounds, cel shading, atmospheric moonlight" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Feature-film-quality hand-drawn anime aesthetic, expressive linework, detailed painted backgrounds, cel shading, atmospheric moonlight". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Feature-film-quality hand-drawn anime aesthetic, expressive linework, detailed painted backgrounds, cel shading, atmospheric moonlight" idiom, not in any other medium. Reference images context (match the visual style and elements from these): - Moonlit Maple Bridge (location): Vertical medium-wide view along an ancient weathered wooden bridge at night, empty, under a brilliant full moon. Thick silver mist drifts below the planks, scarlet maple branches arch overhead, a few crimson leaves resting on the boards. Bright cool moonlight casts crisp shadows from railings and posts, the misty far end fading softly. Feature-film-quality hand-drawn anime aesthetic, expressive linework, detailed painted backgrounds, cel shading, atmospheric moonlight. No people, no text. WARDROBE LOCK — authoritative. Render each character in EXACTLY this outfit, matching their attached reference image. This OVERRIDES any clothing, fabric, texture or colour word describing a character anywhere else in this prompt — do NOT invent other garments: - SAMURAI: indigo blue cross-wrapped kimono with wide sleeves, white or light grey under-kimono visible at neckline, charcoal grey pleated hakama with dark grey fabric obi belt, dark grey traditional Japanese sandals with black fabric straps (katana with black cord-wrapped handle tucked into left side of obi; cross-wrap kimono closure; pleated hakama design) - OPPOSING SWORDSMAN: Broad, heavy-shouldered adult Japanese swordsman, thick brows, stubble, weathered skin, shaggy black hair tied loosely at the nape. Muted brown kimono with a frayed hem, dark tan hakama, rope belt. Holds a bare katana with a worn brown-wrapped tsuka in both hands. Rough fabric texture, side moonlight, aggressive forward-leaning stance.