Image Generation · sub-raceDominant lead
Anime & Stylized race
Anime, manga, cel-shaded and other stylised looks with clean line work.
- Leader
- MJ V8
- Margin
- 35 Elo
- 2.6% ahead
- Weeks at #1
- 31
- in a row
- Changes
- 1
- in 2026
Warming up the track…
Oct 19, 2026MJ V8 leads
2025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
Score history
Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week
#1 frontierMJ V8GPT Image 2Seedream 5Grok ImagineNano Banana 2.1FLUX.3 Klein
Reigns at #1
Longest: MJ V7, 35 weeks (from Apr 2025).
Sibling races
More image generation races
Why this race matters
One of the largest creative communities, with very specific quality bars.
How it is scored
Elo-style rating from blind votes.
Unit: eloHigher is betterPhoto finish under 4 EloDominant over 28 Elo
Data provenance
Votes on anime and stylised prompts.
Scores here are illustrative placeholders that mimic real benchmark patterns. Swap in live data through the score provider. Methodology