This Illustrious based checkpoint merge produces 2D Anime pictures with a clean and detailed style.
It is the result of merging 2 of my current favorite anime checkpoints.

Update

Version 2.0
This release improves the overall details a bit, most noticeable with the hair and reflections. The prompt adherence should also be better then the previous version.

The recommended settings are the same as for Version 1.

Recommended settings

Sampler: Euler A / Scheduler: SGM Uniform

Steps: 25-30

CFG: 3-5

Resolutions: SDXL recommended resolutions (832x1216, 896x1152...)

Highres fix depending on use case

Quality tags:

Positive:

masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, absurdres, cute face, slender, detailed eyes, detailed hair

Negative:

lowres, bad quality, worst quality, bad anatomy, sketch, jpeg artifacts, ugly, poorly drawn, blurry, watermark, bad eyes, bright pupils, white pupils, bad hands, bad face, censored, mosaic censoring, bar censor, censor bar, text, signature

merged models
HDA_Rainbow_Illus v1.4
HotaruBreedXL_Anime_v20
DPO full original checkpoint (for DPO fix)

+additional style loras

Permission: no commercial use, no selling, use only on Civitai (please also check the sources for their respective permissions)