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Art style: Lo-Fi Anime. SETTING: a small, dim bedroom in suburban Pretoria, South Africa, in 1983. Rough plastered walls painted pale beige, a cluttered wooden desk pushed against the wall dominated by a boxy beige early-80s home computer with a small glowing green-and-black CRT monitor. Around the monitor and across the desk are stacks of worn paperback science-fiction novels and astronomy books, their spines cracked, pages dog-eared; a hand-drawn diagram of rockets and planets is pinned to the wall with curling corners. A small model of the solar system dangles from the ceiling. COMPOSITION & CAMERA: medium close-up from a slightly low angle at desk level, looking past the boy's shoulder toward the glowing screen, shallow depth of field, the vertical frame emphasizing the towering shelves of books above him. LIGHTING: the dominant light is the cold green phosphor glow of the CRT monitor washing over the boy's face and hands, contrasted by a single warm dim desk lamp with an amber bulb in the corner, deep shadows filling the rest of the room, cozy but slightly lonely. MOOD & ATMOSPHERE: quiet, intimate, focused, the hushed reverence of a child lost in creation late at night, a sense of destiny hidden in ordinariness. CHARACTER ACTION & EXPRESSION: the young boy leans forward toward the keyboard, small fingers hovering over chunky plastic keys, brow furrowed in fierce concentration, eyes wide and reflecting green lines of code, lips slightly parted in absorbed wonder. COLORS: dominant deep greens and blacks from the screen, warm amber pools from the lamp, muted browns and beiges of the room, soft shadow tones. TEXTURES & MATERIALS: matte plastic of the old computer casing with a fine layer of dust, grainy paper of the sci-fi books, rough plaster wall, smooth glass of the curved CRT reflecting faint highlights. DEPTH & LAYERS: foreground — edge of the keyboard and scattered floppy disks; midground — the boy and the glowing monitor; background — towering shelves crammed with books, the dangling planet model and dark corners of the room. WEATHER & PARTICLES: faint dust motes drifting slowly through the green monitor light, a soft haze in the still air. MICRO-DETAILS: a half-drunk glass of milk beside the keyboard, a hand-written notebook full of code scribbles, the faint reflection of scrolling code in the boy's eyes, a single moth circling the lamp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: 16-bit pixel-art blended with modern webtoon comic illustration in a retro 90s anime aesthetic — crisp thick black outlines, cel-shaded coloring with flat colors and hard dramatic shadows. Gritty urban lo-fi hip-hop vibe. Moody atmospheric lighting with vibrant neon accents (purple, magenta, red) on dark backgrounds. Subtle CRT scanline overlay, glowing elements, expressive sharp anime-influenced features, streetwear clothing. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - Илон (мальчик): A 12-year-old boy of the early 1980s, slim and slightly awkward, with a round soft face, fair skin, light freckles across the nose, and short neatly-parted light brown hair. Large curious hazel eyes full of intense focus and quiet imagination, thin eyebrows, a small serious mouth. His posture is hunched forward with concentration, shoulders narrow. He wears a simple plain casual short-sleeve shirt of the era. Overall vibe: introverted genius child, dreamy yet obsessively focused, glowing softly in the light of a computer monitor. Warm dim indoor lighting, cluttered bookish background.