Revolutionary Girl Utena (少女革命ウテナ)

A shoujo manga and anime series that started with the comic in 1996, followed by the anime series in 1997. The manga was by author Chiho Saito (さいとうちほ), who was part of the Be-Papas (ビーパパス) production group responsible for the anime's production.

Utena changed a lot of things, and it came at a time when its thought-provoking and very personally interpretable writing was especially appreciated. The elements of things like an apocalypse were also big on the public consciousness with the coming millennium.

This LoRA

I trained this LoRA to capture the aesthetic of the series. I went through and took hundreds of screencaps of the remastered Blu-ray release, then distilled them down to what I thought would broadly represent the feel, or "ki", of Utena.

As you may notice in the gallery, it does have capabilities to recognize some characters, though it benefits from guidance with those characters, as you will also notice. You can also use an image in ControlNet if you want something more specific. Characters were not the main focus here, however.

Independently, it does help with creating bishounen and ikemen characters, especially when used with a complementary checkpoint such as an anime style one. The only thing I did with the images in the gallery was to upscale them, as usual, so you can see what the LoRA does without much else.

I recommend using it at a weight anywhere from 0.6-1.0. A lot will depend on how well the checkpoint and the LoRA work together.

I don't generally test out my LoRAs with mature things, so I don't know how or if that will work, and it wasn't really made for that purpose.

Enjoy your own private revolution...your romantic apocalypse!

And you can support your fav crazy retro anime LoRA maker if you want to.

Training data is available by request, and I will train a LoRA for you for a good price.