Cyberpunk Sword Fight Storyboard

Goal: Create a cinematic action film storyboard sheet for a noir cyberpunk sword-fight sequence starring {argument name="character name" default="Kage"}.

Canvas: Wide landscape storyboard page, monochrome black-and-white ink sketch with gray wash shading, aspect ratio about 16:9. Use a clean 2 row x 2 column grid with exactly 4 rectangular panels, thin black panel borders, and a white caption strip along the bottom of every panel. Each panel has a bold frame label in a small white box at top-left: exactly 4 labels, S1, S2, S3, S4.

Visual style: Detailed hand-drawn cinematic storyboard art, gritty manga/comic influence, heavy crosshatching, rain, wet reflections, smoky atmosphere, dynamic camera framing, motion arrows, impact bursts, speed lines, and handwritten storyboard notes. Mostly grayscale with subtle cold blue-white glow only on the sword slash trails. No full-color rendering.

Setting and subject details: A rainy neon-lit futuristic city street at night, crowded with vertical signs and tall buildings. Preserve visible Japanese-style signs including 「死神」 and 「未来ホテル」 on background billboards. The hero is a dark-haired lone swordsman in a torn flowing cloak, armored gauntlet, dark tactical clothing, and boots, wielding a glowing katana. Enemies are armored soldiers with helmets, rifles, pistols, and heavy tactical gear.

Layout and panel contents: Use exactly 4 storyboard panels. Panel S1: wide low-angle static establishing shot in the rain, hero centered with back/three-quarter view, cloak whipping, glowing sword held down, soldiers closing in from foreground left and right plus midground; add a handwritten arrow and label reading “KAGE” above the hero. Panel S2: medium snap action close shot, hero lunges horizontally and draws the sword in a bright slash, striking a helmeted soldier in the head/upper body, with an impact explosion, flying debris, a gun thrown aside, and one large curved motion arrow. Panel S3: wide fast-track chaos shot, hero spinning through a squad at center with a circular glowing blade trail; multiple soldiers are blasted backward around him, muzzle flashes and impact bursts on both sides, speed lines radiating outward, and comic sound effects “BRAKKA!”, “TAK!”, “TAK!” near firing enemies; include three bold white motion arrows around the action. Panel S4: low-angle static aftermath shot, hero crouched on one knee in the rain with one hand on the ground and sword extended horizontally, surrounded by fallen soldiers and debris; wet street reflections dominate the foreground, vertical neon signs glow behind him, and the pose reads victorious.

Caption strip text: Each panel bottom strip must contain exactly 3 text areas: left frame label, middle camera/action tags, right scene note. S1 strip: “S1 | WIDE | LOW ANGLE | STATIC | Establish. Enemies close in.” S2 strip: “S2 | MEDIUM | SNAP | Kage draws and strikes first.” S3 strip: “S3 | WIDE | FAST TRACK | Kage slices through the squad. Speed. Chaos.” S4 strip: “S4 | LOW ANGLE | STATIC | Aftermath. Kage stands victorious.”

Constraints: Countable elements must match: exactly 4 panels, exactly 4 top-left frame labels, exactly 4 bottom caption strips, exactly 1 central hero, and a visible squad of armored enemies in multiple panels. Keep the image as a production storyboard sheet, not a polished movie still. Avoid extra panels, extra frame labels, watermarks, logos, or unrelated text.