Google’s latest AI experiment, Gemini Nano Banana, is redefining how digital creators make anime-style visuals. The new feature allows users to transform simple photos into detailed anime characters, manga panels, and AI-generated worlds all with a single text prompt.
In a recent X (formerly Twitter) thread, Google showcased how users are turning ordinary pictures into kawaii edits, vintage-style food illustrations, and even full manga storyboards using the Nano Banana tool.
“Anime world-building, made simple,” Google wrote. “Gemini users can now create custom anime-inspired lore, characters, and scenic compositions that look straight out of a manga.”
Four Ways Creators Are Using Nano Banana
Google listed four trending ways users are unleashing the AI model:
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Designing anime-style characters and multiple scene compositions.
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Creating hand-drawn, anime-inspired recipe illustrations.
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Adding kawaii overlays and doodles to personal photos.
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Turning everyday objects even vegetables into anime-style characters.
Building Anime Worlds With Prompts
Using simple tags like #Gemini #nanobanana #GoogleAI, creators can produce cohesive four-panel anime scenes.
For instance, one viral prompt created a cinematic frame of a woman on a seaside cliff, a sailboat at sea, and two figures gazing from a mountain top all in Japanese anime style.
The results resemble storyboards or concept art for animated films, showing how AI-generated art has evolved to capture mood, perspective, and continuity, not just static portraits.
AI Meets Culinary Art
Beyond character design, creators are using Gemini Nano Banana for food art.
Digital artist Kris Kashtanova transformed a ramen photo into a vintage recipe illustration using Gemini + Adobe Firefly.
“Turn your food photos into a cute, pastel recipe page that looks hand-drawn,” read one example prompt.
This trend is bringing a nostalgic touch to digital art a blend of AI precision and human warmth, reminiscent of illustrated cookbooks and café menus.
From Kawaii Edits to Vegetable Heroes
Some creators are taking things further from doodling pastel hearts and handwritten notes to turning vegetables into full-blown anime heroes.
One prompt described “a photorealistic vegetable character with carrot arms and pumpkin head, standing in natural daylight with visible water droplets.”
It’s an imaginative leap that blurs the line between reality and artistic fantasy, expanding what AI art tools can do.
Gemini’s Expanding Creative Frontier
By spotlighting community creations, Google is positioning Gemini not just as an AI assistant, but as a creative co-author a bridge between imagination and expression.
With Nano Banana, Google isn’t just making AI smarter it’s making creativity more accessible to everyone.
