Grateful Crane Manga Story Poster

{
  "type": "Japanese folktale manga-style poster",
  "style": "dramatic watercolor anime illustration with inked outlines, vintage storybook poster design, soft snowy atmosphere, vertical three-panel layout with black panel borders",
  "theme": "kindness, winter, folklore, gratitude",
  "text": {
    "topHeader": "日本の昔話",
    "mainTitle": "[鶴の恩返し]",
    "subtitle": "やさしさが運んだ、ふしぎな物語"
  },
  "layout": {
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "panelCount": 3,
    "sections": [
      {
        "title": "cover panel",
        "position": "top",
        "labels": [
          "title area",
          "subtitle line",
          "narration box"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "story panel 1",
        "position": "middle",
        "labels": [
          "boy running in snow",
          "injured crane in net",
          "sound effect",
          "speech bubble",
          "caption box"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "story panel 2",
        "position": "bottom",
        "labels": [
          "boy helping crane",
          "crane close-up",
          "sound effect",
          "speech bubble",
          "caption box"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "scene": {
    "season": "winter",
    "weather": "heavy falling snow with large visible flakes",
    "background": "snow-covered field with distant tree line, pale blue-gray sky, bare winter trees at the right edge, uneven snowdrifts and sparse grasses poking through snow"
  },
  "topPanel": {
    "composition": "large title-dominant cover image over a snowy landscape",
    "narrationBox": "雪の日に始まった、ふしぎな出会い——",
    "backgroundDetail": "a single small crane standing in the snowy distance near the center-right"
  },
  "middlePanel": {
    "caption": "その先にいたのは、傷ついた一羽の鶴。",
    "characters": [
      {
        "role": "boy",
        "appearance": "young Japanese boy in rustic village clothing, messy short black hair, brown kimono robe, blue sash, running urgently from the left with hand reaching forward"
      },
      {
        "role": "crane",
        "appearance": "red-crowned crane with white body, black neck and tail accents, one wing raised, trapped in a rope net spread across the snow"
      }
    ],
    "speechBubble": "たいへんだ！",
    "soundEffect": "バサッ"
  },
  "bottomPanel": {
    "caption": "この小さな親切が、運命を変える。",
    "characters": [
      {
        "role": "boy",
        "appearance": "the same boy kneeling and carefully loosening the rope net with both hands, leaning close to the crane"
      },
      {
        "role": "crane",
        "appearance": "large red-crowned crane facing left, calmer, wings partially lifted, luminous feathers against the snow"
      }
    ],
    "speechBubble": "もう大丈夫だ 空へお帰り",
    "soundEffect": "ふわ"
  },
  "colorPalette": {
    "primary": [
      "indigo blue",
      "snow white",
      "soft gray",
      "muted brown"
    ],
    "accents": [
      "crane crown red",
      "subtitle red",
      "sound effect blue"
    ]
  },
  "rendering": "polished illustration, elegant Japanese calligraphy for main title, clear readable typography in captions and speech bubbles, cinematic snow contrast"
}