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retro 1990s anime cel artwork, hand-inked lineart with flat hard-edged cel shading, dramatic high-contrast lighting with deep black shadows, high resolution. A full-body view of a mermaid in her twenties seated on a black sea rock with waves breaking around her, leaning back on one hand with her head tilted toward the viewer and a slow, knowing smile. The image is painted like an early-1990s fantasy anime key visual, in saturated flat colour with glossy posterized highlights, white surfaces shaded in cool cobalt blue, fine sketchy ink strands in the hair and a gouache-painted background with brushy clouds. She has very long white hair blowing to one side, large crimson eyes with bright white highlights, pale skin and glossy red lips, with gold rings in her ears. She wears a white breastplate of shells bound with gold wire, and below her waist her long tail is covered in glossy crimson scales edged in gold, curling over the rock into the foam. Behind her, the deep cobalt sea stretches to a horizon of towering white clouds under a deep cobalt sky, and white spray bursts from the waves on the frame's left. Bright hard sunlight from the upper left throws crisp black shadows under her arm and along the scales while the spray flashes white. Palette of deep cobalt blue, white, black, crimson and a gold glint. Teasing, salt-bright, wild.