Updated: Apr 12, 2026
style
Introduction
Trigger word: TTGL (stick it at the start of the prompt). Use character tags to generate the characters looks/voices (optional).
If the style doesn't trigger just stick the word "anime" at the end of the prompt. But note that it makes the style change a lot, so I recommend it only as a last resort. Also try different seeds.
This is trained for t2v, all samples are such. I haven't tested with i2v so give it a try and let me know.
What is this lora?
This lora's purpose is to recreate the style from the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and all the main characters in the show. Or you can just use it for anime style without using the characters. This lora does not only give you the style from the anime, but it's trained on every character from the first season (pre-time skip). I put the trigger words/descriptions at the end of this description. If you put them in the prompt they will trigger and come out (some better than others). The mecha's are not really trained well, you're not gonna be able to prompt them in well from my tests. But it can give other kinds of new original mechas. All the character's voices are also trained (japanese dub). To prompt it say for example : char_yoko says in Japanese "sore wa nan daro?!" (You can also just use english if you want but it wont match voice).
I wanted to see if I could LTX 2.3 to actually do anime style. Like not just looks but motion. And for the most part I think I was able to do it finally. It's a little bit over trained and some characters (nia and yoko) bleed into the base a bit too much, but you can get around it by describing in the prompt those parts. Just understand you often get yoko with red hair and nia with blonde hair with women.
Recommended Settings
I highly recommend you use 2-pass with distill on 0.5 str and use 50FPS. Otherwise you will get motion distortion. You still get it with these settings but reduced by a lot more. Anime just doesn't play with LTX. I hope they train the base model on lots of anime in the next version. Use my example workflow for reference if you wanna recreate using my same settings. If anyone has better settings for anime in LTX let me know. Also this style lora will work with other loras but maybe reduce strength on those and keep this on 1 strength.
Training
My old wan gurren lagann dataset was pretty much useless for LTX. It was 16fps and the clips were too short. And it relied on image dataset to teach style. I did an initial test training with it when LTX 2.0 first came out and the result was not great. This time I completely redid from 0 this dataset. I used pyscene to split the first season and the music videos. I set the max for each scene 121 frames. More than 70% of the dataset is around 121 frames each, then I have a bunch of 30-90ish frame clips. The long clips are there to teach voice and motion, and the short are more for style and character likeness. It was trained using my captioning tool with gemini. The captioning part was a bit annoying because google has added limits for paying customers. Openrouter doesn't have the limits, but it costs more. I just spent more on openrouter this time and used their api with my caption tool with gemini 3.1 preview since it can understand video + sound (and it does whole videos not just set frames from the video). I am interested to test gemma4 next time.
The dataset was a bit heavy on Yoko and Nia. If I wanted to do this as a proper style lora, I would reduce their data by a lot. I think next I will try a generic anime style lora with lots of different characters from various shows. I will include some sample data and my config files in a zip in the "dataset" downloads for reference.
I trained on 832x480 resolution with target fps 24.0. And I padded/trimmed frames which didn't fit into LTX's frame bucket size. (gemini can create a script with FFMPEG to do this for you easy). I learned from my dispatch lora to set the LR on the sound to around half of the LR of the video. This allowed the voices to not over train while the video took its time to catchup. Also its rank 64 (thus the 1.2gb file size) since there is a lot to train for.
By the way, you can train style very easy on images only. I tried from my wan image dataset and it came out sort of ok. But it didn't have proper anime motion or the look of the show. But I think it has viability in areas outside of anime. 3D, or stopmotion claymotion etc. can be done super quick with image only since I think the base model knows it well enough. The base model doesn't know anime enough.
This trained locally to around 45K steps, but I personally like the 40K steps checkpoint too. So I add both here and you can decide which is better. I also added a 34K steps version which I think has less over train issues so it's more stable. I think the 40K doesn't bleed yoko/nia into the generations as much and recommend this the most, but the 45K one seems better for anime motion? It took around 80 hours or so to train this far at around 5 s/it locally on a 5090. It was going at 4.5 s/it for a while but it would sometimes OOM (I guess due to the wattage limits I was setting later on) so I put it to 4 block swap and it was trained on float8. I used akanetendo25's musubi fork to train this. Big shout out to him and his excellent implementation of LTX 2.3.
Closing thoughts
I think this was a good chance to learn about how much we can teach LTX 2.3. And I think the base model will need more training on animation and anime (3D / games seems fine). I know some animation can be triggered in base model but I think rick and morty and spongebob etc. are not enough. They need to rip through a ton of anime (they should try...).
For the lora's final output, visually its still not as good as Wan 2.1 or 2.2. But it kind feels like somewhere in the middle of wan 5b and wan 2.2. Sometimes you have some really bad interaction but one little golden nugget of great animation and anatomy comes out. And there is a feeling that at some point in the future we can get there consistently. I don't wanna give up on trying to get anime or animation in LTX working, so I hope we can get closer with each attempt. And I know its very easy for this lora to go off the rails. Some hands are bad, sometimes doesn't trigger style, or it just stays motionless for whatever reason. But I think after a few tries and adjustments on prompts/seeds we can get something nice.
At the end of the day, this lora isn't going to teach LTX anatomy or fast motion. Try to make prompts that play into the strengths of what the base model can do. Talking scenes especially are great. And the anime has lots of extreme close ups of people talking actually when you take it apart scene by scene.
Character triggers
Note: Take these with a grain of a salt. I fed the captions into google ai studio and it got really lazy. And I couldn't coax it to properly do it IMO, the latest gemini models suck ass. The order is from most appearing in the dataset to less. Anyone with less than 5 appearances is not listed below but may be in the dataset.
Character Tag: char_yoko
Primary Outfit: A black bikini top with a red flame pattern, black shorts with a white studded belt, a thick white and pink striped scarf around her neck, black fingerless gloves or detached arm warmers with yellow studs, and pink thigh-high stockings with boots. She frequently carries a large sniper rifle.
Appearance: A young woman with long, bright red hair tied in a high ponytail, adorned with a white skull hair clip and yellow hair sticks. She has fair skin, golden-yellow eyes, and occasionally wears yellow-tinted goggles resting on her forehead.
Character Tag: char_simon
Primary Outfit: A blue jacket with a red-lined collar and red accents on the shoulders, a white undershirt, a red armband tied around his left bicep, red goggles resting on his forehead, and a drill necklace.
Appearance: A boy with messy dark blue hair, wide eyes, and dirt smudges on his cheeks.
Character Tag: char_nia
Primary Outfit: A pink and white dress with a yellow collar adorned with two red spheres, and a large pink flower-shaped hair accessory.
Appearance: A girl with pale skin, large blue eyes with distinct pink, four-pointed star-shaped pupils, and fluffy pale blonde hair with light blue undersides.
Character Tag: char_kamina
Primary Outfit: Large, angular, translucent red sunglasses, a tattered red cape with a high collar, white bandages wrapped around his abdomen and forearms, and dark pants with a white studded belt.
Appearance: A man with spiky blue hair, purple eyes, and blue tattoos on his upper arms and chest.
Character Tag: char_kiyoh
Primary Outfit: An olive-green string bikini.
Appearance: A woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes.
Character Tag: char_leeron
Primary Outfit: A high-collared purple and pink jacket with gold studs and round glasses.
Appearance: A man with short green hair, purple eyeshadow, pink lipstick, and a beauty mark.
Character Tag: char_kittan
Primary Outfit: A dark, sleeveless vest revealing his neck and upper chest, dark pants, and a yellow fingerless glove.
Appearance: A man with spiky blonde hair and thick prominent eyebrows.
Character Tag: char_kinon
Primary Outfit: A green top over a black garment, with a large white bow tied at her waist.
Appearance: A girl with short brown hair and round glasses.
Character Tag: char_kiyal
Primary Outfit: A black sleeveless top, black shorts, black thigh-high socks, a white belt, and yellow fingerless gloves.
Appearance: A girl with dark purple twin tails and green eyes.
Character Tag: char_rossiu
Primary Outfit: A white high-collared shirt with green sleeves and purple shoulder stripes.
Appearance: A man with a brown ponytail and pale skin.
Character Tag: char_gimmy
Primary Outfit: A pale green tank top.
Appearance: A boy with short spiky red hair and freckles.
Character Tag: char_dayakka
Primary Outfit: A white tank top, a brown belt, opaque blue goggles, and a thick necklace made of large, shiny, metallic spherical beads.
Appearance: A muscular man with dark skin and short green hair.
Character Tag: char_lordgenome
Primary Outfit: A dark garment with a high, pointed collar.
Appearance: A massive, muscular, bare-chested man with dark skin, a thick black beard, and a bald head featuring a dark, vertical marking down the center.
Character Tag: char_viral
Primary Outfit: A dark reddish-brown high-collared jacket with a red central zipper and red rectangular shoulder pads.
Appearance: A man with pale skin, blonde hair that covers his right eye, and sharp, jagged teeth.
Character Tag: char_darry
Primary Outfit: A yellow top with a white backpack.
Appearance: A girl with pink hair.
Character Tag: char_adiane
Primary Outfit: A magenta top with a black lace-up corset, a red choker, and a white ruffled collar.
Appearance: A woman with long dark blue hair, a black right eyepatch, red lipstick, and a thick, segmented brown scorpion-like tail.
Character Tag: char_boota
Primary Outfit: Sunglasses.
Appearance: A small brown pig-mole.
Character Tag: char_gurren_lagann
Primary Outfit: A face on its torso with yellow V-shaped sunglasses and sharp teeth, topped by a black head with a golden crescent moon crest on its helmet.
Appearance: A large red, black, and yellow mechanical robot.
Character Tag: char_kidd
Primary Outfit: A black sleeveless shirt with a high, flared collar, tan fingerless gloves, and a brown belt.
Appearance: A young man with spiky blonde hair featuring a green patch on the side.
Character Tag: char_zorthy
Primary Outfit: A pink padded vest with dark circles over a blue long-sleeve shirt, and blue sunglasses.
Appearance: A man with messy green hair.
Character Tag: char_iraak
Primary Outfit: A yellow tank top and olive green pants.
Appearance: A man with orange spiky hair.
Character Tag: char_jorgun
Primary Outfit: A dark green vest with metal studs and dark green armbands, and blue star-shaped glasses.
Appearance: A man with a brown afro and a beard.
Character Tag: char_balinbow
Primary Outfit: A dark green vest with metal studs and dark green armbands, and pink star-shaped glasses.
Appearance: A man with a brown afro and a beard.
Character Tag: char_makko
Primary Outfit: A pink striped shirt and a green necklace.
Appearance: A man with glasses.
Character Tag: char_guame
Primary Outfit: A yellow pipe.
Appearance: A stout, green reptilian creature with an orange chest.
Character Tag: char_enki
Primary Outfit: A yellow crest, red eyes, and a black faceplate.
Appearance: A tall, humanoid mecha with a white upper body, grey arms and legs, and dark grey accents around its waist and thighs.
Character Tag: char_lazengann
Primary Outfit: Red circular accents.
Appearance: A black mecha with glowing orange circular back ports, a horned head, and a pointed tail.
Character Tag: char_cytomander
Primary Outfit: A white and teal outfit featuring a high yellow collar with green circles, large white feathery lapels, a gold choker, and teal sleeves.
Appearance: A pale man with purple markings under his narrow eyes and white hair styled with a tall red crest on top.
Character Tag: char_king_kittan
Primary Outfit: Red rectangular side blocks with small arms.
Appearance: A golden-yellow metallic surface, a central crest, glowing eyes, and an angular face.