Monochrome Manga Chapter Collage

Goal: Create a monochrome manga magazine cover / chapter splash page for {argument name="series title" default="なるようになるまで"}, with the episode label {argument name="episode label" default="Episode 4"}. The page should feel like a quiet, dialogue-free slice-of-life urban story, highly detailed and atmospheric.

Canvas: Vertical manga page, approximately 2:3 aspect ratio, black-and-white ink drawing with grayscale screentone, dense crosshatching, rain reflections, high detail, no color.

Layout: A collage composition with exactly 7 visible story scenes. The largest central scene shows the main character standing full-body in a narrow rainy Tokyo alley, surrounded by tall buildings, utility poles, shop signs, wet pavement, a manhole cover, and a distant broadcast tower. Around it, arrange 6 smaller rectangular vignette panels: 1 upper-left cramped bedroom scene, 1 upper-right convenience-store cashier scene, 1 middle-left tabletop budgeting scene, 1 middle-right laundromat waiting scene, 1 lower-left rooftop city-view scene with pigeons, and 1 lower-right nighttime bedroom scene.

Subject details: The same teenage manga girl appears in all 7 scenes. She has short dark bobbed hair with a small ahoge curl, large over-ear headphones, a loose oversized hoodie jacket with sporty sleeve tape, a pleated skirt in the central full-body scene, chunky futuristic sneakers, and a tired introverted posture. Her face should be intentionally obscured with a soft rectangular gray blur in the largest central figure and the closer vignette figures, creating an anonymous censored look while preserving the hair and headphones silhouette. Use {argument name="jacket marking" default="893"} as a small printed number or patch on the jacket in several scenes.

Exact scene count and contents: Scene 1, central full-body alley portrait: the girl stands hands in pockets, wet street reflections, dense Japanese urban signage, overhead wires, and a distant tower. Scene 2, upper-left bedroom: she sits on a messy bed looking at a phone, surrounded by clothes, bottles, posters, small table clutter, and a window. Scene 3, upper-right convenience store: she works at a register with shelves of canned goods and products behind her, wearing the same headphones and jacket. Scene 4, middle-left tabletop: she sits at a table with a cup-noodle container, bottled tea, coins, calculator, receipts, a wallet, and papers, suggesting budgeting or counting change. Scene 5, middle-right laundromat: she sits alone beside round washing machines, head down, with a large bag nearby. Scene 6, lower-left rooftop: she sits with a cup noodle and chopsticks overlooking a dense city skyline, with exactly 3 pigeons visible nearby and a drink bottle on the ground. Scene 7, lower-right bedroom at night: she lies awake in bed under blankets, city lights visible through the window, a digital clock on the wall or shelf, cup, phone, remote, small devices, and clutter on a bedside table.

Typography: Put the large brush-calligraphy title across the very top, bold black ink strokes with splatter and rough dry-brush texture. Place the smaller episode label below the left side of the title. Keep the typography integrated like a manga chapter opener.

Visual style: Detailed seinen manga line art, gritty urban realism, rainy Tokyo backstreets, cinematic composition, layered panels, ink splatter, screentone shading, high contrast, melancholy mood, no speech bubbles, no dialogue, no color, no watermark. Use {argument name="overall mood" default="quiet melancholy after rain"} as the emotional tone.