This version pushes way further into the anime side — brighter colors, sharper contrast, clean line work, and that crisp 2D energy. I steered away from semi-realism this time and leaned fully into stylized characters with a lot of punch. It’s built for vivid, expressive images that still play nice with detailed prompts.

Same as my other merges, i honestly don't really know everything thats in them.

too many all nighters have scramble my brain.

My method is a kind of sleep deprived psychosis chaotically utilizing a mix of block weights merges where i try to target the specific blocks controlling what i want to change as well as regular weighted difference checkpoint merging until they look how I want.

I do try to keep the metadata intact tho so if you are curious about the recipe it should be all there. 💕

🛠️ What's different from CherryFishv2:

Back to 2d anime (closer to cherry1)
Saturation and contrast are dialed in - everything just pops more, especially in neon-heavy or cinematic lighting.
Detail rendering feels tighter - especially on eyes, hair, and accessories.
Prompt responsiveness - is very good, tho it can give a little attitude from time to time. (i.e. trying to get a long sleeve t-shirt to not have any designs or logos on it so i crank up my "plain_white" tag to (plain_white:1:5) and the model says "FU" and writes in perfectly legible english "PLAIN WHITE" across the front of the shirt.) so yeah, a little bratty 🤷‍♀️

🔧 Recommended settings:

Sampler: Euler a
Steps: 30
CFG: 5.5–7 (tweak to taste)
Clip skip: 1 or 2 — doesn’t matter much in my experience

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Just look at that big ass fish 😀

semi real or anime styles, just change where you put tags (3D and realistic, positive prompt for semi, negative prompt for anime)

Settings are same as always:

sample/scheduler - Euler a

steps - 30

guidance- 5.5/7ish

clip skip 1 or 2, i never really see much of a difference.

Models included in this mix are below in the suggested resources. Thank you to all the creators. 💕