Rough Tonjiru Cooking Storyboard

Goal: Create a 21:9 ultra-wide storyboard sheet for a 15-second Japanese 2D cooking animation about making a {argument name="dish name" default="Tonjiru set meal"}. The image should look like rough production storyboard frames drawn quickly in pencil, with messy sketch lines, construction strokes, hand-drawn panel borders, no color except faint graphite shading, and cinematic close-up food-prep framing.

Canvas: Wide horizontal 21:9 composition, white paper background, thin black rough pencil line art. Divide the canvas into exactly 12 rectangular storyboard panels arranged in a 4 columns by 3 rows grid, with narrow gutters and slightly imperfect hand-drawn borders.

Visual style: Ultra-rough pencil storyboard style, loose and energetic, sketchy animation keyframes, visible overlapping strokes, minimal clean rendering, no polished ink, no grayscale wash, no typography, no captions, no watermarks. Use close-up camera angles focused on hands, knives, pots, bowls, steam, and ingredients.

Storyboard layout and panel count: Use exactly 12 panels, left to right, top to bottom:
1. Close-up of hands slicing a long white daikon radish on a cutting board with a large kitchen knife; several semicircle slices lie to the left.
2. Close-up of a hand slicing small round vegetables, likely mushrooms or root vegetable rounds, with a knife; cut pieces pile on the right.
3. Bowl of water or broth seen from the side/top, with oval slices or chopped green onion rings dropping into the liquid and ripples on the surface.
4. Hands placing or mixing cubed konnyaku or tofu-like pieces in a shallow tray, with one round vegetable held between fingers.
5. Close-up of thin pork belly slices being cut on a cutting board, strips stacked on the left and the knife angled across the meat.
6. Pork pieces frying in a pot or pan, oil dots around them, chopsticks stirring the meat from above.
7. Top view of a pot full of chopped vegetables and konnyaku cubes; chopsticks stir the mixture among daikon rounds and irregular cubes.
8. Liquid broth being poured from a spouted container into the pot of ingredients, creating motion lines and splashes.
9. Simmering soup pot viewed from above, bubbling vigorously with ingredients visible; a ladle or skimmer enters from the right.
10. A ladle lifts a mound of miso paste or seasoning above the steaming pot while chopsticks help dissolve it; steam curls around the ladle.
11. Soup being poured from a ladle into a serving bowl; small sliced green onions fall from above, emphasizing the garnish action.
12. Final serving shot: a bowl of tonjiru filled with pork, vegetables, konnyaku cubes, and green onion rings, with a separate small bowl of white rice in the background on the left.

Subject details: Show only hands and cooking tools, no full characters. Ingredients should read as Japanese home cooking: daikon, pork slices, konnyaku or tofu cubes, chopped scallions, broth, miso, and rice. Emphasize steam, bubbles, cutting motion, pouring motion, and chopstick stirring.

Constraints: No text inside the image. Keep the storyboard rough and monochrome. Maintain exactly 12 distinct panels in a 4 by 3 grid. Use a dynamic animation storyboard feel rather than a finished illustration.

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