Generate an anime-style 2D clip that commits fully to flat cel-shading

Write a Veo 3.1 prompt for an 8-second clip in a 2D anime-influenced animation style, structured around explicit cel-shading and line-art vocabulary rather than relying on the single word "anime" to carry the whole style instruction, since that one word underspecifies exactly which visual conventions should apply and tends to produce a hybrid result that leans partway back toward photorealism rather than committing fully to a flat-shaded look.

SUBJECT AND ACTION
a young swordfighter with spiky red hair and a torn cloak, drawing a sword in one sharp, held-pose motion, cloak whipping out behind in a stylized snap rather than a smooth drift. Describe the action as it would actually read in this style — anime motion is frequently more stylized and less physically continuous than live-action motion, favoring held poses and sharp directional movement over smooth interpolation, so naming that expectation explicitly steers the model away from defaulting to realistic, smoothly interpolated motion layered under a flat-shaded look.

LINE AND SHADING STYLE
clean bold black outlines, flat color fills, hard-edged triangular shadow shapes, no soft gradients. Name the specific rendering conventions — clean black outlines, flat color fills with hard-edged shadow shapes rather than soft gradients, limited color palette per character — since these specific technical choices are what visually define the style, far more precisely than the word "anime" alone communicates.

ERA AND INFLUENCE REFERENCE
late-90s cel animation, slightly heavier line weight and more muted palette than modern digital anime, if a specific visual era or influence matters — naming a specific stylistic period ("90s cel animation" versus "modern digital anime") changes the actual line weight, color saturation, and shading approach the model leans toward, since those two eras look meaningfully different from each other.

ENVIRONMENT AND BACKGROUND
a simplified painted-style rocky cliff backdrop, flat color blocks, no photoreal texture, rendered in the same flat, stylized treatment as the foreground subject — a photoreal or heavily 3D-rendered background behind a flat-shaded 2D character is a common and immediately visible mismatch, since the two rendering styles do not blend convincingly in the same frame.

CAMERA
a static hold with only the character animating, a hard graphic push-in on the final held pose — anime camera language often favors simpler, more graphic moves (a hard cut-feeling push, a static hold with only the subject animating) over the smooth, continuous camera moves live-action favors; naming that expectation keeps the camera language consistent with the rest of the stylistic commitment.

AUDIO
a sharp stylized sword-draw sound effect, a low dramatic sting, no realistic ambient room tone, matched tonally to the style rather than to realistic ambient sound.

WHAT TO AVOID
Do not describe any element of the scene — lighting, texture, a background object — in photorealistic terms alongside the cel-shaded instruction; a single photoreal detail dropped into an otherwise flat-shaded scene is where this style most visibly breaks, since the model will render that one detail with realistic shading and texture that clashes against everything else in the frame.

OUTPUT
The finished prompt, followed by one line confirming that every element described — subject, background, and camera — commits to the same named stylistic register with nothing left in photorealistic language.