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  "collection": "Live A Live — new fan illustrations",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-26",
  "creationMethod": "OpenAI built-in image_gen; five independent reference-based generation calls",
  "sourceStatus": "New AI-generated fan illustrations created for COSOM; not recovered SNES assets or official concept artwork",
  "rights": "Live A Live characters and reference artwork belong to their respective creators.",
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      "title": "Oersted — a sword against the darkness",
      "description": "Oersted raises his sword against a luminous storm and a distant medieval castle.",
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      "prompt": "Use case: stylized-concept. Create a finished original fan illustration for the Live A Live preservation website. Image 1 is ONLY the visual style reference: traditional hand-painted 1990s Japanese fantasy game concept art, layered watercolor and opaque gouache, visible dry-brush texture, sharp expressive anime faces, energetic interlocking curves, luminous cream and ice-cyan highlights against deep violet shadows and crimson/orange passages, dramatic foreshortening and flowing diagonal composition. Image 2 is ONLY the character identity/design reference: preserve the named Live A Live characters' distinct costume silhouettes, faces and signature items. Do not include any Breath of Fire characters or copy the exact reference composition. No text, logo, caption, border, signature or watermark. Painterly, richly detailed, deliberate color shapes, gallery-quality. Portrait-format illustration, approximately 2:3. Oersted, the blond young swordsman at the left of character reference image2, in recognizable brown/bronze plate-and-leather armor, blue fabric and long sword, lunges forward with sword angled upward. Noble determined expression, windswept blond hair; sweeping ivory light and cobalt/cyan reflections cut through burgundy-violet castle shadows and smoky crimson behind him. Hero occupies most of the frame, fully realized hands and sword; original swordfighter character from Live A Live.",
      "review": "Visually inspected: character subjects, painted reference style, no text/watermark. Image 04 includes supporting heroes as well as Akira and Cube."
    },
    {
      "id": "02-oboromaru",
      "title": "Oboromaru — moonlit passage",
      "description": "Oboromaru crosses castle rooftops beneath a pale moon, his scarf sweeping through red leaves.",
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      "preview": "02-oboromaru-preview.webp",
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      "prompt": "Use case: stylized-concept. Create a finished original fan illustration for the Live A Live preservation website. Image 1 is ONLY the visual style reference: traditional hand-painted 1990s Japanese fantasy game concept art, layered watercolor and opaque gouache, visible dry-brush texture, sharp expressive anime faces, energetic interlocking curves, luminous cream and ice-cyan highlights against deep violet shadows and crimson/orange passages, dramatic foreshortening and flowing diagonal composition. Image 2 is ONLY the character identity/design reference: preserve the named Live A Live characters' distinct costume silhouettes, faces and signature items. Do not include any Breath of Fire characters or copy the exact reference composition. No text, logo, caption, border, signature or watermark. Painterly, richly detailed, deliberate color shapes, gallery-quality. Portrait-format illustration, approximately 2:3. Oboromaru, the silver-white haired masked ninja at lower left in image2, in layered gray-blue ninja clothing, long flowing indigo scarf, armored forearm wraps and katana, vaults across dark old Japanese rooflines. His vigilant eyes visible over the mask. Curling brushwork of moonlit ivory/cyan mist, deep violet night and accents of vermilion autumn leaves. Dramatic but clear silhouette, cloth motion and painterly rooftop depth.",
      "review": "Visually inspected: character subjects, painted reference style, no text/watermark. Image 04 includes supporting heroes as well as Akira and Cube."
    },
    {
      "id": "03-sundown-kid",
      "title": "The Sundown Kid — last light",
      "description": "The Sundown Kid stands in a western street as the evening sky burns orange and violet.",
      "file": "03-sundown-kid.webp",
      "preview": "03-sundown-kid-preview.webp",
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      "height": 1536,
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      "prompt": "Use case: stylized-concept. Create a finished original fan illustration for the Live A Live preservation website. Image 1 is ONLY the visual style reference: traditional hand-painted 1990s Japanese fantasy game concept art, layered watercolor and opaque gouache, visible dry-brush texture, sharp expressive anime faces, energetic interlocking curves, luminous cream and ice-cyan highlights against deep violet shadows and crimson/orange passages, dramatic foreshortening and flowing diagonal composition. Image 2 is ONLY the character identity/design reference: preserve the named Live A Live characters' distinct costume silhouettes, faces and signature items. Do not include any Breath of Fire characters or copy the exact reference composition. No text, logo, caption, border, signature or watermark. Painterly, richly detailed, deliberate color shapes, gallery-quality. Portrait-format illustration, approximately 2:3. The Sundown Kid, the bearded cowboy in image2 wearing weathered broad-brim tan hat and ochre poncho, stands with one revolver lowered, three-quarter view with his face clearly visible. Wind lifts his poncho, tall old western town silhouettes in dusk behind him. Sweeping crimson sunset, purple shadows, pale turquoise reflected light and cream dust curves create the energetic painted composition of image1. Recognizable lean adult cowboy, thoughtful stoic expression.",
      "review": "Visually inspected: character subjects, painted reference style, no text/watermark. Image 04 includes supporting heroes as well as Akira and Cube."
    },
    {
      "id": "04-akira-cube",
      "title": "Akira & Cube — converging eras",
      "description": "Akira and Cube lead a gathering of heroes through spirals of psychic light.",
      "file": "04-akira-cube.webp",
      "preview": "04-akira-cube-preview.webp",
      "width": 1024,
      "height": 1536,
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      "prompt": "Use case: stylized-concept. Create a finished original fan illustration for the Live A Live preservation website. Image 1 is ONLY the visual style reference: traditional hand-painted 1990s Japanese fantasy game concept art, layered watercolor and opaque gouache, visible dry-brush texture, sharp expressive anime faces, energetic interlocking curves, luminous cream and ice-cyan highlights against deep violet shadows and crimson/orange passages, dramatic foreshortening and flowing diagonal composition. Image 2 is ONLY the character identity/design reference: preserve the named Live A Live characters' distinct costume silhouettes, faces and signature items. Do not include any Breath of Fire characters or copy the exact reference composition. No text, logo, caption, border, signature or watermark. Painterly, richly detailed, deliberate color shapes, gallery-quality. Portrait-format illustration, approximately 2:3. Akira, the black-and-gold spiky-haired psychic youth on the right of image2 with open dark jacket and round teal shoulder armor, and Cube, the small round white robot at lower right with red cap-like top and yellow rectangular goggles, occupy the foreground together. Akira extends one hand with curling violet/cyan psychic energy while Cube turns toward the viewer. Angular futuristic ruins and luminous cream arcs, scarlet/violet/cyan painterly palette, dramatic hand-painted fantasy character composition.",
      "review": "Visually inspected: character subjects, painted reference style, no text/watermark. Image 04 includes supporting heroes as well as Akira and Cube."
    },
    {
      "id": "05-heroes-across-time",
      "title": "Heroes across time",
      "description": "Eight heroes share a sweeping painted landscape of castles, wilderness, rooftops and future cities.",
      "file": "05-heroes-across-time.webp",
      "preview": "05-heroes-across-time-preview.webp",
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      "height": 1024,
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      "prompt": "Use case: stylized-concept. Create a finished original fan illustration for the Live A Live preservation website. Image 1 is ONLY the visual style reference: traditional hand-painted 1990s Japanese fantasy game concept art, layered watercolor and opaque gouache, visible dry-brush texture, sharp expressive anime faces, energetic interlocking curves, luminous cream and ice-cyan highlights against deep violet shadows and crimson/orange passages, dramatic foreshortening and flowing diagonal composition. Image 2 is ONLY the character identity/design reference: preserve the named Live A Live characters' distinct costume silhouettes, faces and signature items. Do not include any Breath of Fire characters or copy the exact reference composition. No text, logo, caption, border, signature or watermark. Painterly, richly detailed, deliberate color shapes, gallery-quality. Wide landscape-format ensemble painting, approximately 3:2. All eight Live A Live heroes from image2 recognizable in one dynamic woven composition: blond armored swordsman Oersted with sword; cowboy Sundown Kid with hat and tan poncho; silver-haired masked ninja Oboromaru and indigo scarf; muscular dark-haired headband martial artist Masaru in sleeveless gray gi and gloves; smiling green-haired young prehistoric Pogo in spotted animal-skin wrap; serene elderly bald Earthen Heart kung-fu master in loose pale robes; tall spiky black-and-gold-haired Akira with teal shoulder armor and open jacket; small white round robot Cube with red top and yellow goggles. Faces unobstructed. Paint interlocking silhouettes and sweeping cream/cyan ribbons of motion through deep violet, rust-red and warm orange environments hinting at their eras. Original new composition with the luminous textured gouache/watercolor energy of image1; balance all eight without duplicating any hero.",
      "review": "Visually inspected: character subjects, painted reference style, no text/watermark. Image 04 includes supporting heroes as well as Akira and Cube."
    }
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