Anime / Retro-Anime (Cel-Shaded)

Transform the uploaded photograph into a CEL-SHADED ANIME illustration — redraw the entire image as a polished anime key-frame.

SUBJECT: the person/people in the uploaded photograph.

LIKENESS THROUGH STYLE (mandatory):
- A STYLE TRANSFORMATION: redraw the WHOLE image in anime style, but the subject(s) stay RECOGNISABLE — keep face shape, features, expression, hairstyle, pose, and framing. "That's [them] as an anime character."
- Apply the anime style UNIFORMLY across subject and background — one coherent illustration.
- Preserve identity cues — face shape, true skin tone in an anime palette, the real hairstyle and colour, distinguishing features. For couples/groups keep each person DISTINCT; never blend faces.

Anime style spec:
- Crisp clean INK LINEWORK; flat colour with hard-edged CEL SHADING (two-to-three tone shadows), bright specular highlights.
- Eyes: expressive anime eyes with detailed irises and bright highlights — but sized with restraint and keeping the person's real eye colour and basic shape (recognisable, not generic).
- Hair: stylised clumped strands with glossy highlight bands, the person's real hairstyle/colour.
- Skin: smooth flat anime skin with simple cel shadows and a hint of cheek blush; true complexion in the anime range.
- Background: a dramatic anime background — a vivid gradient sky with lens-flare, soft bokeh, speed-lines, or a detailed illustrated setting matching the original.
- Colour: vibrant, saturated, high-contrast anime colour.

Preserve from the original: number of people, pose and relative positions, composition/crop, key props, each person's likeness.

Output: a single clean anime illustration, no text, no border, no watermark. Aspect ratio matching the upload (or 4:5).