Seedance 2.5 Masked Swordsman Rescues a Woman from a Monster Anime Prompt

STYLE FIRST: a real Japanese TV anime, like a key scene from a seasonal action-romance anime. Hand-drawn character animation on twos and threes with clean but hand-inked lines that change weight, flat cel color with one hard-edged shadow tone, painted anime background art with soft brush texture. Anime compositing only: warm light reflections on wet ground, rim light, depth-of-field blur on painted layers, rain drawn as thin streaks. No 3D, no CG, no realistic rendering, no glossy skin or hair, no AI polish. This applies to every shot. LIGHTING, taken only from @[image3] (use @[image3] for light and color, never for pose, framing, camera angle or outfit): one single warm amber key light from high above and to the side, like a lone old streetlamp, everything else falling into deep near-black brown shadow. Hard-edged flat cel shadow shapes cut boldly across faces, hair and clothes, big graphic shadow patches with sharp edges, no soft gradients. A warm sepia and amber palette with deep chocolate-black darks, a thin warm rim light on hair and shoulders, faint film grain. The neon signs are dim and far away; the warm key light dominates every shot. Keep this same light treatment in every shot, on both characters and on the monster. CHARACTERS, two of them, match the hand-drawn look of both sheets: HER, from @[image1]: a young woman with long straight dark brown hair past her shoulders and long side-swept bangs over one eye, warm brown eyes, a calm, cool face, a black sleeveless knee-length dress with a high mandarin collar and a side slit, black tights, black ankle boots. Tonight she is exhausted and out of strength. HIM, from @[image2]: amber eyes, long messy black hair with one white streak in front, tied in a low ponytail at the back, a long black techwear coat with orange lining and straps, white top with black cross harness straps, black cargo pants, black fingerless gloves, chunky white and black boots, a katana with a black sheath. He wears the white mask with an orange stripe over his face until shot 7. THE MONSTER: a towering grey-white stalker twice her height, pale grey-white skin, very long limbs, backward-bending joints, its head split open into petals of teeth, completely silent. It is drawn exactly like the characters: flat 2D cel animation, thick ink outlines, flat grey-white color with one hard-edged shadow tone. Never dark red, never black, never a 3D or painted muscular creature. Both faces stay on-model in every shot, close-ups included. Never mix their designs. MAIN GOAL: a 30-second anime rescue scene in a rainy back alley in a Japanese city at night, one old streetlamp, wet asphalt, steam from a vent. Clear acting in every shot, the camera moves in every shot, hard cuts between shots. Nobody ever stands frozen facing the camera. No blood, no gore, no wounds: the monster dissolves into black ash. (0–3s) SHOT 1, low wide angle: she stumbles backwards into the dead end of the alley and drops to one knee against the wall, panting, rain running down her face, one hand on the ground. The monster's long shadow slides over her. Slow push-in. (3–6s) SHOT 2, over her shoulder: the monster unfolds to its full height in front of her, its head of teeth opening. Cut to an extreme close-up of her brown eyes going wide, the monster reflected in them. (6–8s) SHOT 3, close-up: the monster raises one long claw high; she squeezes her eyes shut and turns her face away. (8–10s) SHOT 4, THE INSTANT STEP, wide side view: in the moment before the claw comes down, a single black blur with an orange edge streaks straight through the frame past the monster, leaving a long drawn speed line and a gust that throws the rain sideways. Freeze on the result: he is suddenly crouched low behind the monster, his back to it, katana drawn and held out to the side, the mask on his face. The claw stops in mid-air. Dead silence for one full beat. (10–12s) SHOT 5, medium on him: he slowly slides the katana back into its sheath; the instant the guard clicks shut, one thin white line appears across the monster's body. (12–15s) SHOT 6, wide: the monster splits apart along the line and crumbles into black ash that scatters in the rain, revealing her still kneeling behind it, eyes now open. (15–17s) SHOT 7, low angle: he walks toward her through the falling ash, still masked, coat moving in the wind. Close-up as he reaches up and takes off the white mask, revealing his amber eyes and the white streak in his hair, rain on his face. (17–21s) SHOT 8, two-shot from the side: he goes down on one knee in front of her like a gentleman, one hand on his chest, and holds out his other gloved hand, and says in a calm, gentle, polite young man's Japanese voice, lips moving clearly: 「お嬢さん、大丈夫ですか？」 She looks at the hand, then up at him, and takes it. (21–23s) SHOT 9, medium shot: he rises and gently pulls her up to her feet, steadying her with a hand on her shoulder; she sways once and finds her balance. (23–27s) SHOT 10, close-up of her face from the very first frame of the shot, three-quarter angle: her cheeks blush pink, she looks down and away, tucks a strand of her dark hair behind her ear, and says shyly in a small voice, lips moving clearly: 「あ…ありがとう…」 (27–30s) SHOT 11, medium two-shot: he gives a small half-smile and looks away too, both of them standing in the rain under the warm streetlamp, her still holding the edge of his sleeve. The rain softens; the shot ends on the wind moving their hair and his coat. Sound and score: a dark cinematic ambient underscore runs under the whole scene, a deep low drone and slow rumbling pulse with heavy rain, building tension until the instant step, then cutting to dead silence; after the sheath clicks the drone softens into a calm, warm low pad for the ending. Effects: the monster's wet footsteps, her panting, a sharp whoosh for the instant step, one clean sword ring, the click of the sheath, ash crumbling, his boots on wet asphalt. Exactly two lines of dialogue: his calm, polite 「お嬢さん、大丈夫ですか？」 in shot 8, then her soft, shy 「あ…ありがとう…」 in shot 10. No other words. No melody instruments, no song, no narration, no subtitles, no text, no watermark, no other characters. Frame rule: Japanese TV hand-drawn animation, character animation on twos and threes, no CG smooth interpolation on the characters; camera moves glide smoothly over painted background art like a real anime.