Midjourney adds storybook, pop-art, and watercolor manga SREF packs

• Midjourney creators published a fresh batch of SREF looks on March 31, led by Promptsref’s watercolor manga pack, a nostalgic storybook pack, a neo-retro poster style pack, and an earlier bright geometric color-block style drop.
• The strongest new use-case split is practical: watercolor manga is aimed at covers, fashion art, and game key visuals, while storybook is tuned for packaging, indie game scenes, and cozy UI illustration.
• Independent creators are also pushing outside single-code presets: YOLO-Dex blend shares a weighted multi-SREF formula for brand assets and motion-heavy visuals, while custom combo shows hand-built blends producing adult-sitcom and sketchbook linework.
• For anime-first work, cinematic anime adds a polished Shinkai-like option with subtle moe character design, giving artists another reusable Niji-friendly look next to Promptsref’s packaged styles.

Promptsref’s biggest release was a “wide-angle watercolor manga” code, --sref 4156795104 --niji 7 --sv 6, built around fisheye framing, exaggerated foreshortening, and soft watercolor or ink texture. The post explicitly positions it for manga covers, fashion illustration, character art, and game key visuals, and its own prompt recipe leans on phrases like “extreme low angle,” “dynamic perspective,” and “watercolor texture” watercolor manga.

The same account also published three more creator-friendly lanes. Its nostalgic storybook stack uses six SREF codes with --niji 6 to get warm yellows, risograph-like texture, and vintage children’s-book line art for branding, packaging, botanical guides, and whimsical scenes storybook with a fuller prompt breakdown on the guide page. A separate neo-retro pack, --sref 1299061047 --niji 6, narrows into red-black-cream poster energy for album art, fashion drops, tattoo references, and indie game characters poster style. Earlier in the day, Promptsref also shared --sref 2027984915 --niji 6, a cleaner geometric palette built around saturated reds, oranges, and deep blues for children’s books, app illustrations, and brand visuals color-block style.

Independent posts were more experimental than the catalog-style drops. Lloydcreates shared a weighted blend, --sref 3765455930::0.5 1620633913 223844887::3 2551438016::5 --p, and called it the most versatile mix tested so far for brand work and creative assets. The sample outputs pair logos, abstract marks, and motion-blurred photography, suggesting SREF blends are being used less as “style presets” and more as art-direction systems YOLO-Dex blend.

Artedeingenio posted two different directions: a single-code cinematic anime look, --sref 1874214658, described as modern, polished, and Shinkai-inspired cinematic anime, plus a separate example of combining SREFs to create new illustration aesthetics custom combo. The images in that blend move from flat 2D animation to rough sketch energy and adult-sitcom-style portraits, which is the clearest signal in this batch that creators are treating SREFs as composable ingredients rather than one-click endings.