Art style: Anime.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to tail-tip, standing upright and curled slightly on its lower coil, correct orientation, centered with a sunlit garden scene filling the sides. Gaston is a soft pinkish-brown earthworm with a glossy segmented body, plump and ringed with faint reddish bands. He has big round expressive eyes, thick comic eyebrows, and a wide toothy grin showing an eager hungry tongue. His slender upper body tilts forward impatiently, two little stubby nub-arms gesturing, lower segments resting on the damp soil as his base (no feet — he tapers to a rounded tail). His belly is rounder and lighter. Expression is impulsive, excited, famished yet friendly and goofy. Setting: a rich dark garden bed with green leaves, dewdrops, a half-eaten apple and crumbs of earth scattered nearby.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image in the following art style:
2D anime cartoon animation — cel-shaded illustration, bold clean black outlines, flat anime shading, hand-drawn anime look with anime facial features and stylised non-realistic rendering of objects, food and environments. NOT photorealistic, NOT live-action, NOT a 3D render, NOT real footage.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
