To generate with niji 6, use the suffix --niji 6 or go to /settings in the niji bot, and turn on Niji version 6 edition!

For niji v6, we had a single-minded purpose: we challenged ourselves to bring as much subject matter as we possibly can into the anime style. It’s no small feat: most of the concepts in this world do not exist in anime.

Historically, I am not a fan of long prompts. longer prompts actually decrease the performance of most models. However, when you don’t see a prompt working out, it’s a natural human inclination to explain more, resulting in longer prompts.

So we built Niji 6 with that behavior in mind: it listens to details.

When you try to draw something that Niji 6 doesn’t already know how to draw, you can explain what you want.

For example, niji 6 does not understand the concept of “kasa obake” (japanese umbrella monster). Here’s what you get back when you write “kasa obake.”

But you can explain what a kasa obake is, and niji will draw it. Here is “kasa obake, a monster umbrella with one eye and one mouth with a long tongue standing on one leg”

Exciting isn’t it?

Niji now supports simple text writing! You can put writing into your picture by putting the text between quotations, like so:

Be sure to enclose your text in the double quotes!

We noticed that we’ve picked up a lot of non-anime niji fans. If you like our new prompt following, with less anime styling, I suggest the RAW mode. You can turn on RAW mode by using --style raw or by pressing the RAW mode button in the settings.

You can see the difference here: the more realistic image is drawn with style RAW

We’re going to release the Niji V6 launch event towards the end of February.

Look forward to it in about a month!

Now, without further ado, let’s demonstrate how to explain to Niji!

#prompt-craft is an amazing place. Expert users help out others triage their prompts. If you’ve never been in this channel, go take a look! It’s where you’ll find the most difficult-to-make subjects.

Personally, I’ve wanted heterochromia for a long time. Now, you can specify which position each eye is in.

Some prompts simply work now, out of the box.

This was definitely still challenging to get: It will become much easier once we add Vary(Region) support for Niji V6.

Specifying small details like this will work well in niji v6, even when combined with more specifics about the rest of the picture.

“Two characters standing next to each other” has always been very hard, as those of you who played the red cube/blue cube Similarity challenge have found. It’s significantly easier now!

This one was still quite challenging to get, but once the prompt is made, it was quite good: it demonstrates the effects of explaining the subject to niji v6.

(This was posted in #niji-mobile, instead of #prompt-craft, but this user was clearly suffering)

So as you can see, niji v6 is quite responsive to your wishes: you simply have to know what to ask for.

This is a different direction for us in the niji project: we’re usually focused on drawing the prettiest waifu that can waifu and the most handsome husbando that can husbando: In niji 5, we worked very hard on providing the most beautiful stylization in anime.

In this version, instead of focusing on the most pleasing face shape or the most rigorous drawing techniques, we focused on simply bringing as many subjects as possible into the style of anime.

It turns out, this is infinitely harder. Most things don’t exist in anime. The ability to draw what you’ve never seen is… creativity.

And so, we hope the improved prompt-following will serve you well in extending your own creativity!

So if you are used to using niji 5, you’ll find the best results with niji 6 when you change up your prompting strategy: niji 6 will reward you for longer, more specific prompts!

As a reminder, the full version of Niji V6 is slated for release in approximately one month, along with the launch event.

As always, thank you for your support on this journey.

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