Clean lines at wallpaper size.
Anime Upscaler
Upscale anime art, illustrations and line art up to 9 megapixels — about 4000×2250 for a 16:9 wallpaper. The stricter Pro setting adds less invented texture, which is what flat colour and clean lines need.
Pro is 8 credits, Creative 4; failed runs are refunded. Plans renew monthly until cancelled and can be cancelled online at any time — see pricing details.
Upscaling rebuilds detail with AI. It sharpens and enlarges; it can't recover information the original never captured.
Which setting suits your art
| Art style | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Cel-shaded anime | Pro | Less invented texture on flat colour |
| Ink line art, manga | Pro | Stays closer to hatching and screentone |
| Painterly illustration | Creative | More brush texture and background detail |
| Game or concept art | Either | Pro for faithful, Creative for richer detail |
| Pixel art | Neither | Use a nearest-neighbour resize instead |
Drawn art is harder to upscale well than a photo. A photo is full of texture, so an upscaler that adds a little more looks natural; anime is made of flat fills and deliberate lines, where any added texture reads as noise. That is why this page opens on Pro, the stricter of the two Clarity settings. Creative is there for art that benefits from more — painted skies, detailed backgrounds, concept art.
There is no anime-only model behind this tool; the honest claim is that a strict general upscaler handles most illustration well, and the zoomed before-and-after lets you judge your own image before you keep it.
Upscale anime art in three steps
Add the artwork
Upload, drag or paste a PNG or JPG — a screenshot, an illustration or your own drawing.
Keep Pro for line art
Each option shows the exact size your image will reach. Switch to Creative for painterly work.
Zoom into the lines
Turn on the 3× zoom and slide across an edge to check it stayed crisp, then download.
Wallpaper sizes
With Pro, a 16:9 image lands at about 4000×2250, enough to fill a 4K monitor, and a 9:16 image at about 2250×4000, taller than any phone screen. Want new art rather than a bigger copy? The image studio generates at 2K directly, and the photo to cartoon tool redraws a photo in an illustrated style.
Rights and labelling
Upscale art you made or have the right to use; characters owned by studios and publishers remain their property. Images are screened before any credit is taken. Every result carries a signed C2PA provenance mark recording that it was edited with AI, in line with Article 50 of the EU AI Act — the added detail is AI-generated. Anyone can read the mark on the verification page; the Content & Safety Policy sets out what may not be created. Plans renew monthly until cancelled and can be cancelled online at any time; the full terms are on pricing details.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a dedicated anime upscaling model?
No, and it is worth being clear about. There is no anime-only model behind this page: it uses the same two Clarity AI upscalers as the image upscaler. They are general-purpose, and they handle drawn art well — the part that matters for anime is choosing the stricter Pro setting, which this page opens on.
Which option is best for anime and line art?
Pro, at 8 credits. It stays closer to the source, so it adds less invented texture to flat colour and clean lines, and it goes up to 9 megapixels. Creative, at 4 credits, adds more generated detail — good for painterly art and backgrounds, but it can add texture where cel shading should be smooth.
Can I make a 4K anime wallpaper?
Yes. Pro targets 9 megapixels, so a 1280×720 screenshot or illustration comes out at about 4000×2250 — slightly more pixels than a 3840×2160 4K screen — and a 720×1280 phone wallpaper at about 2250×4000. The tool shows the exact size for your image before you run it.
Does it work on manga pages, sketches and pixel art?
Manga pages and ink sketches, yes — use Pro so screentones and hatching are not smoothed into texture. Pixel art is the exception: an AI upscaler rounds off the hard pixels that make the style, so pixel art is better enlarged by a whole-number nearest-neighbour resize in any image editor.
Can I upscale anime video clips?
Yes, on the AI video enhancer, which upscales clips to 1080p. This page is for still images — screenshots, illustrations, wallpapers and fan art.
Can I upscale fan art of existing characters?
You can upscale images you have the right to use. Characters owned by studios and publishers are their intellectual property, so upscaled fan art is for personal use unless you have permission. Every result carries a C2PA mark recording that it was edited with AI, readable on the verification page.
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