# Visual System

## Core DNA

- Saturated red, vivid yellow, cobalt blue, black, and white dominate every page.
- Green may appear only as a small semantic success accent, never as a competing palette.
- Use thick irregular black ink, white keylines, hard cel shading, and Ben-Day halftone dots.
- Use huge condensed Japanese display lettering with heavy black outline and white separation.
- Use jagged panel borders, speech balloons, impact bursts, action rays, speed lines, stars, lightning, warning symbols, and thick arrows.
- Use one dominant comic mechanism: incident sequence, transformation, loop, checklist, route, matrix, storyboard, or rising action path.
- Use a dark cobalt takeaway band with large white copy and one meaningful yellow phrase.

## Page Architecture

Use an oversized burst headline at the top, a short blue subline banner, one dominant middle comic construction, exactly three integrated labels in impact balloons, and a forceful bottom takeaway strip. Crop panels and objects dynamically, but preserve readable margins and an unmistakable visual flow.

## Character and Object Treatment

Use a recurring simplified Japanese business learner only when a human action clarifies the lesson. Keep expressions and gestures active. Let documents, checklists, arrows, charts, magnifiers, folders, roads, targets, tools, and flags carry most teaching pages. Avoid stock portraits, photorealistic people, copied comic heroes, branded superhero costumes, and character-only posters.

## Avoid

- Pastels, soft gradients, thin line icons, beige paper, corporate dashboards, rounded equal cards, or empty minimalist layouts.
- Anime portrait dominance, photorealism, 3D toy rendering, platform UI, spreadsheet aesthetics, or generic manga pages.
- Fake logos, QR codes, URLs, dates, prices, English sound effects, unrelated symbols, decorative pseudo-text, signatures, or watermarks.
