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TLDR

ComfyUI add-on for the Anima anime model that adds prompt-builder nodes, a style and artist library, Danbooru tag panels, and a Civitai prompt importer.

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    Inputs
      Style and artist picks
      Danbooru tags
      Civitai model IDs
    Outputs
      Combined prompts
      Cached style library
      Preview images
    Use Cases
      Build anime prompts faster
      Import Civitai prompts
      Reuse artist styles
    Tech Stack
      Python
      ComfyUI
      SQLite
      Pillow
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Build long anime prompts inside ComfyUI without typing every tag by hand

USE CASE 2

Pull the top-rated images of a Civitai model and reuse their prompts as a local style preset

USE CASE 3

Browse 1000+ artists and pick a style with live preview thumbnails

USE CASE 4

Save and reload prompt presets by ID across ComfyUI sessions

What is it built with?

PythonComfyUISQLitePillowPyTorch

How does it compare?

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Needs a working ComfyUI install, Python 3.10+, and a pip install of requirements, Civitai and Danbooru calls go over the network.

In plain English

comfyui-anima-t8 is an add-on for ComfyUI, an open-source node-based interface that people use to drive image-generation AI models. This particular add-on is built around an anime-focused model called Anima, and its job is to help users assemble the long text prompts that the model needs in order to produce a picture. The add-on adds four nodes to the ComfyUI canvas: one that combines a positive prompt, a negative prompt, and a style prompt into a single piece, one that picks an artist style and also shows preview images, one that joins two text pieces, and one that loads a previously saved prompt by ID. On top of the nodes, it injects extra panels into the ComfyUI main page so users can browse a style library of 52 ready-made presets in 15 categories, a gallery of more than 1000 artists, and Danbooru tag lists covering artists, work names (such as anime or game titles), character names, and stylistic meta tags. A Civitai button is also provided. The user types in the numeric ID of a model on civitai.com, and the add-on calls the public Civitai images API to pull the highest-rated example pictures, reads the prompts attached to each image, sorts the tags into 14 internal categories, and saves the top 30 of them into the local style library so they can be reused later. Installation is done either by cloning the repository into ComfyUI's custom_nodes folder and running pip install -r requirements.txt, or through the ComfyUI Manager once the project is listed there. The dependencies are Python 3.10 or newer, a recent ComfyUI build, plus Pillow, numpy, torch (already included with ComfyUI) and requests. Under the hood, all fetched data is cached to a local SQLite file so panels open quickly on the second visit, and Danbooru images are routed through a same-origin proxy inside the ComfyUI server to get around anti-hotlink and content-security blocks. The README also lists the HTTP routes the add-on registers and a detailed version history covering recent fixes to preview rendering and tag-name handling.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Clone comfyui-anima-t8 into ComfyUI/custom_nodes, install requirements, and verify the four new nodes show up on the canvas.
Prompt 2
Wire the positive, negative, and style prompt nodes into a basic Anima workflow that generates one image.
Prompt 3
Type a Civitai model ID into the Civitai button and explain how the add-on fetches and stores the top 30 tags locally.
Prompt 4
Switch the Danbooru proxy route to a custom domain and confirm preview images still load.
Prompt 5
Debug why a saved prompt preset ID will not load after upgrading ComfyUI.

Frequently asked questions

What is comfyui-anima-t8?

ComfyUI add-on for the Anima anime model that adds prompt-builder nodes, a style and artist library, Danbooru tag panels, and a Civitai prompt importer.

What language is comfyui-anima-t8 written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, ComfyUI, SQLite.

How hard is comfyui-anima-t8 to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is comfyui-anima-t8 for?

Mainly designer.

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