Anime is not one look, it is dozens, from crisp modern portraits to inky manga pages, and Google Gemini can turn you into any of them. You upload a selfie, name the style you want, and get back an anime version of yourself with your real face intact. Gemini's Nano Banana image model is what holds your likeness while it redraws everything in true anime style.
The secret is naming the exact style instead of just asking for "anime". Below are the exact Gemini anime prompts to try, from a clean portrait to a manga panel and a chibi sticker. Copy any one, paste it into Gemini with your selfie, and change the parts in [square brackets]. For a quick single version, try our anime style portrait prompt, or for the soft painterly film look, see our Ghibli prompts.
How to make an anime photo in Gemini
- Open the Gemini app and upload a clear, front-facing selfie that shows your hairstyle fully.
- Paste one of the prompts below and pick the style details in the [brackets].
- Name the exact anime style you want, that is what separates it from a generic cartoon.
- Generate a few takes and keep the one where the character most looks like you.
The clean anime portrait
The essential anime version of you, crisp line art and expressive eyes in a polished modern style, made for a profile picture.
Turn [a person] into a clean modern anime portrait, keeping their recognizable face and features. Crisp line art, large expressive eyes, smooth cel shading, and detailed anime hair, with a soft blush and clean vivid colors, against a simple softly lit background. A polished, current anime art style, high resolution.
The anime couple
A romantic shojo-style pair, soft blush, petals, and sparkling light, the warm anime moment couples love to post together.
Turn [a couple] into a romantic shojo anime illustration, keeping both faces recognizable. Soft blush, sparkling eyes, drifting petals and glowing light around them, standing close beneath a soft evening sky, gentle pastel colors and delicate line art. A warm, dreamy shojo manga cover feel. High resolution.
The manga panel
A real black-and-white manga page with bold ink, screentones, and panel framing, like you stepped straight into a printed chapter.
Turn [a person] into a black-and-white manga panel, keeping their recognizable face and features. Bold ink line art, classic manga screentones, delicate ink hatching in the shadows, dramatic panel framing with space for a speech bubble, and expressive shading. Like a page from a printed manga chapter, high resolution.
The chibi version
The adorable mini version, an oversized head, tiny body, and big sparkling eyes, perfect for stickers and profile icons.
Turn [a person] into a cute chibi anime character, keeping their recognizable face and features. An oversized head, tiny body, big sparkling eyes, and a cheerful expression, drawn in a clean colorful anime style with rounded shading and crisp outlines, centered on a plain solid [soft pastel] background with nothing else in the frame. Adorable, perfect for a sticker or icon. High resolution.
The action scene
A high-energy shonen moment with a dynamic pose, speed lines, and a glowing power aura, like the climax of your own anime episode.
Turn [a person] into a dynamic shonen anime action scene, keeping their recognizable face and features. A powerful action pose mid-leap, a glowing energy aura, dramatic speed lines, and intense determined eyes, with bold anime shading and vivid color, wind whipping through their hair as the background streaks with motion. An epic episode-climax moment, high resolution.
A few extra tips
- Always name the exact style, "clean modern anime", "shojo", "shonen", or "chibi", vague prompts drift into generic cartoon territory.
- Add "crisp line art, cel shading, large expressive eyes" to keep the result unmistakably anime.
- Mention features to keep, like "the glasses and curly hair", so the character stays recognizably you.
- Want a 3D collectible of your chibi? Try our chibi figurine prompt for the toy version.
