Aiko Umesawa ( Danganronpa ) [SDXL]

Aiko Umesawa from the Danganronpa 3 anime. AKA Pikachu girl, AKA the student council member from the Danganronpa 3 anime with the yellow hoodie and frying pan. This was an experiment to see how well I could do with a severely limited amount of training data. Just keep the experimental nature of this lora in mind when using it. The fact that it's usable in the first place is more suprising than it being a little inconsistent. She was in one scene of one episode of the Danganronpa 3 anime - that's not a lot of high quality training data!

IMPORTANT: This sdxl lora is trained on the same data as my original flux Aiko Umesawa lora. In short, this sdxl lora suffers a bit from being designed for a different system. Though not as badly as I would have expected. The most significant issue is that it doesn't take style directions very well. Specifying danganronpa 3, danganronpa sprite style, etc will have an effect. Just less of an effect than the flux lora. The sprite style in particular has some big issues. When you use sprite style it'll typically just randomly change colors and clothing items. It's a side effecct of her not actually being in any of the games.

I trained using natural language for the captions rather than tags so natural language. So natural language prompts will give you the best results with this lora. It also seems to work quite well with a combination of natural language and tags. Sadly, it doesn't work very well with 'only' tags. It can work with pony models, but their issues with natural language can cause problems. I've done the majority of my testing with aamXLAnimeMix, Black Magic XL, and aniverseXL.

I trained on a few specific image types which you can replicate, to varying levels of success. I tried to include a range of the prompt options in the images so you can easily compare and contrast. But these are the major options.

Danganronpa the Animation: Use 'This is an anime screencap from Danganronpa The Animation' in the prompt to emulate the art style from the anime series Danganronpa the animation.

Danganronpa 3 (anime): Use "This is an anime screencap from Danganronpa 3."

Sprites from Danganronpa: Mention 'danganronpa sprite style' in the prompt to try emulating the art style of Danganronpa. For example, 'this image is in the danganronpa sprite style'. Despite the name, I trained on full screenshots, with and without the GUI, with this description along with character sprite rips. So in theory it should be able to 'danganronpafy' a full image.

Danganronpa S GUI: This doesn't work all that well. But you can give it a try with this. "The image uses danganronpa S GUI style with the danganronpa sprite style. A speech bubble is in the bottom of the image and it says "This is test text!" The speech bubble is in front of Aiko Umesawa. There's a box with a blue background with white stars, and a grey arrow pointing right, beside the speech bubble. The text in the box says "Aiko Umesawa" and it is next to the speech bubble."

Clothing: You can try different clothing options with prompts like the following:

Standard outfit with hood up: "Aiko Umesawa wearing her uniform from Danganronpa 3. She's wearing a long-sleeved white button-up shirt with a red ribbon tied in a bow at the collar and a brown pleated skirt. Aiko Umesawa is wearing a yellow ????? hoodie with long ????? ears on top of the Hope's Peak uniform. Her hood is up. Her left eye is green and right eye is blue. She has light brown hair."

Standard outfit with hood down: "Aiko Umesawa wearing her uniform from Danganronpa 3. She's wearing a long-sleeved white button-up shirt with a red ribbon tied in a bow at the collar and a brown pleated skirt. Aiko Umesawa is wearing a yellow ????? hoodie with long ????? ears on top of the Hope's Peak uniform. Her hood is down. Her left eye is green and right eye is blue. She has light brown hair."

Locations: I didn't try to train on any specific locations, but some of them appeared enough in the training data that you might be able to improve your results by specifying areas from Danganronpa V3 and Jabberwock island. Even just mentioning V3 or Jaberwock Island, might be enough to help push things in the right direction.

Note on her eyes: Aiko has heterochromia but it came out as fairly inconsistent in the lora. If the eyes aren't coming out right you can try giving it more of a push with tags along the lines of " (((heterochromia))), (((green left eye))), (((blue right eye))), (((right eye is blue)), (((left eye is green)))" But even then it has a tendency to come out as blue and yellow rather than blue and green.

Training material: Saying that there's not a lot of official material on Aiko is an understatement. She's in one short scene of one episode of Danganronpa 3. And there's not a huge amount of fan material to fill in the gaps either. I took screencaps of every mostly unique frame she was in. Then heavily supplemented that with sprites made by madara120. I topped all that off with selections of material from my other danganronpa loras to lend the styles and location information.