an eggplant creature, image1 is the eggplant chef character — keep his exact proportions, colors, face and chef's toque. A wide 8:5 banner in modern anime cel-shading. Night-time restaurant kitchen: warm pendant lamps over a stainless counter, a portable gas burner with small blue flames holding a black frying pan. Seen in side profile, the plump deep-purple eggplant chef stands with both stubby arm-stubs frozen in mid-toss, raised clear of the pan handle with a gap of air between them; his head is turned away, round dot eyes blankly gazing aside, tiny w-shaped mouth, as if pretending nothing happened. Above the pan, an enormous wave of fried rice hangs frozen in mid-air as if time stopped — golden grains, egg and green peas curling into the exact silhouette of Hokusai's Great Wave, rice-grain foam tendrils, a couple of shrimp tumbling in the crest. On the back wall a huge framed woodblock print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa echoes the wave's curve; warm key light with cool indigo spill, puffs of steam suspended in the air.
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