# Golden Week Ending Melancholy

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Lifestyle (@library.lifestyle)](/@library.lifestyle.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: anime, illustration, character
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Create a melancholic anime-style illustration of {character_description} sitting hunched on a sofa in a dim apartment room at {time}, facing a large window where the sun is setting over a dense city skyline. The mood is the painful realization that Golden Week is ending and work resumes tomorrow: quiet, heavy, resigned, with the character resting his face against one hand and staring toward the orange-purple dusk. Show warm sunset light spilling through the window, dramatic clouds, distant buildings in silhouette, and deep blue shadows inside the room. The apartment should feel lived-in and slightly messy after a holiday: an open suitcase with clothes on the left, a low table in the foreground with an open planner, scattered papers, a smartphone, a calculator, chopsticks, a bowl, snack wrappers, and a mug, plus a jacket or bag draped on the sofa. Use cinematic lighting, detailed background art, soft painterly anime rendering, emotional slice-of-life atmosphere, and a composition that contrasts the beautiful sunset with the character’s dread. Include no readable text, no captions, and keep the scene realistic and subdued, with the character’s face turned away or partially obscured to emphasize universal sadness. Overall theme: {theme}.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{character_description}` | character description | a tired young man with messy dark hair |
| `{time}` | time | 18:00 |
| `{theme}` | theme | the end of Golden Week and the dread of returning to work tomorrow |

## About

Generates a cinematic anime room scene capturing the sadness of a holiday ending and the dread of returning to work.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.lifestyle on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/golden-week-ending-melancholy-vgfsag
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