#publictransportanimation

Please Hug Me

• Model: ChatGPT (Pro) Full

• Size: 2880 X 2880 (8.29 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A modern, colorful manga-style comic panel with clean, confident linework, expressive chibi-influenced proportions, and flat, vibrant colors with soft cel shading. The tone is emotionally awkward, gently ironic, and quietly instructive. Dialogue appears in a simple, perfectly legible rounded comic font. Single-panel composition. Setting: The interior of a subway car. Clean, stylized seats, vertical poles, and large windows with motion-blurred tunnel lights sliding past. Cool overhead lighting contrasts with the warmth of human emotion. The environment feels public, transient, and slightly impersonal. Foreground characters: Two young women sit side by side on the subway floor near the seats, barefoot, close but emotionally misaligned. Left woman: She wears a light blouse and a short pleated skirt in bright, youthful colors. Her very short, sharply layered asymmetrical pixie haircut is vivid violet. Her posture is forward and well-intentioned. She holds out a small stack of banknotes with both hands, offering them earnestly. Her expression is hopeful and practical—eyebrows raised, a tentative smile—clearly trying to help in the way that feels most “useful” to her. Right woman: She has a voluminous pink double-bun hairstyle and wears only her short denim overall (salopette), no t-shirt underneath, with a softly stylized, voluminous bust in chibi form. She sits collapsed inward, knees drawn slightly closer, shoulders shaking. Tears stream down her face; her hands clutch her own arms. Her expression is raw and overwhelmed, mouth open mid-sob as she looks at the money in disbelief. Speech bubble (right woman, fragile and hurt): “I asked for a hug…” Environmental text, written clearly on a subway wall panel behind them, like a philosophical notice: “Offering what wasn’t asked for satisfies the giver, not the receiver.” Interaction & mood: The money hangs uselessly between them. The left woman’s expression falters as understanding begins to replace certainty. The right woman’s pain is not about resources, but about connection. The subway continues moving—indifferent—while the moment stands still. Bottom caption (centered, inside the panel): “(© Emiliano Girina)” Overall mood: Quietly poignant and reflective—showing how good intentions can miss emotional reality, and how care requires listening before acting.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: square