Milly Ceramic Journey Comic Page

Goal: Create a warm manga-style vertical comic page about {argument name="character name" default="Milly"}, a blonde anime girl making her first ceramic cup in a pottery studio, accompanied by a small cube-shaped AI robot. The mood is gentle, encouraging, handmade, and slightly nostalgic.

Canvas: Tall vertical comic page, approximately 9:16, cream paper background, thin black panel borders, soft watercolor-anime rendering mixed with realistic pottery-studio details. Use a handwritten title at the top: “Milly Ceramic Journey EP01 窯梨學徒”, with the subtitle “每一位藝術家，都有自己的第一件作品。” and a tiny paw-print accent.

Main subjects: The girl has long wavy {argument name="hair color" default="golden blonde"} hair, bright blue eyes, fair skin, a black blouse, a brown clay-stained apron, and a small necklace. The robot is a small black-and-white cube AI companion with a simple pixel face, sitting near the worktable or pottery wheel in multiple panels. The studio contains shelves of bowls, clay tools, pottery wheels, wood tables, window light, a kiln, and rows of ceramic pieces.

Layout: Use exactly 18 comic panels after the header. Panel 1 is a large opening panel on the upper left showing the girl welcoming the viewer at the pottery studio entrance with the robot on the table and a chalkboard sign. Panels 2 and 3 are stacked on the upper right: preparing clay at the table, then a close-up of hands holding rough clay. Panels 4, 5, and 6 form a row showing the first attempt on the pottery wheel, the clay collapsing, and the girl discouraged beside a lumpy failed pot. Panels 7, 8, and 9 form another row showing her restarting, slowly shaping clay, and proudly holding a finished lidded cup with sparkles. Panels 10 through 14 form a row of five small process panels: drying on shelves, bisque firing in a kiln, glazing with a brush, final firing in a glowing kiln, and opening shelves full of finished ceramics. Panel 15 is a wide emotional panel showing the girl with eyes closed, holding the finished cup with both hands, robot beside her, studio blurred behind. Panels 16 through 18 are the bottom row: a text-only closing message, a product-like close-up of the finished lidded cup with handle, and a close-up of the cup bottom with a small paw-print stamp.

Visible text content: Include speech bubbles and captions in Traditional Chinese/Japanese style. Use these exact readable lines where possible: “這裡就是陶藝工作室呀…”, “第一次揉泥土…好柔軟，好神奇。”, “第一次煉土！”, “第一次拉坯！”, “呃…失敗了…”, “沒關係，重新開始！”, “慢慢理解泥土…”, “完成！我的第一個茶碗！”, “等待乾燥…”, “素燒完成！”, “上釉…”, “釉燒中…”, “開窯！”, and in the final text panel: “每一位藝術家，都曾經完成過自己的第一件作品。”

Visual style: Soft detailed anime illustration, cozy documentary comic pacing, subtle paper texture, delicate ink lines, muted warm browns and creams, realistic clay texture on hands and apron, natural window lighting, shallow depth of field in larger panels, expressive but gentle faces. The finished ceramic cup should be cream-colored, slightly imperfect, handmade, with a small lid and rounded handle.

Constraints: Keep exactly 18 panels plus the title header. Keep the robot present in many panels but not every panel. Do not add extra characters. Avoid photorealism; maintain anime-manga comic aesthetics. Make all visible typography hand-drawn and integrated into the panels.