A list of the best Anime models on SD

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SDv1 isn't complete at the moment. teehee

SDXL will get pruned and receive samples images when I have time.

SDv1 WIP
- Generic anime art style
  - Amedira - generic style with good composition discord post
- Detailed anime art style
  - Soushiki - A great high quality model mix discord post
  - Summershard - extremely detailed discord post
- Flat colors and abstract
  - Kakigori - The coolest flat colors model by far civitai discord post
  - Ahnn One - More abstract and aesthetic model civitai discord post

Will do cleanup soon... edit: I lied

SDXL
- Generic anime art style etc
  - Amber Light - Nice generic style model discord post
  - AnimagineXL - Aesthetic model made by Linaqruf
  - Bluepencil XL - A merge that has almost every LoRA ever made for SDXL in it
  - CounterfeitXL - Extremely overfit model with nice style but terrible anatomy
  - Reproduction - Basically a competitor to Bluepencil
  - LEOSAM AIArt - Neat finetune with that uncanny civitai style
  - ShikiAnimeXL - A pretty cool anime model
  - Endless Bard_Mix - Ligne Claire feel but also a bit on the generic side
  - Endless Bard - Basically Ligne Calire but softer
  - nijiFlat - A finetune of those flat niji images
  - NekoRayXL - A model that seems pretty capable but generic
  - PotatoCreamXL - Cute with sharp slim lineart
  - HKXL - Classy looking model with generic style
  - Bulldozer - A charming generic anime style model
  - BArtstyleDB - Model with a soft blue archive style
  - AingDiffusion - Neat anime model called Aing for some reason
  - Antifreezing Solution - feets
  - KiwiMix - Soft chibi style
  - Heart of Apple - Impressive finetune of Animagine XL
  - Kohaku XL Gamma - Kohaku's cool anime model
- Experimental and Abstract
  - Anime Illust Diffusion XL - Model capable of many different styles
  - Anticlosed source - I'm unaware of their training process but it seems close to AidXL in some ways
  - 218XL - AidXL but more consistent civitai discord post
  - Lux XL - Easy anime prompting on SDXL with AidXL
  - Endless Maestro Mix - A neat looking AidXL merge
  - Erha Pixel Art - pixel art
  - SDVN8 ArtXL - Ghibli and Flat Illustration as well as generic anime
  - Riot Diffusion XL - That model finetuned on only LoL stuff huggingface
  - Little Fish - A weird anime dreambooth model
  - comradeshipXL - Dpo XL merge model
  - Pony Diffusion - A bronie model capable of anime art styles but with jpeg artifacts and broken compatibility

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A list of the best Anime models on SD

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