AI Painting

Re:Zero: The White Whale

At night a huge white whale swims in the air over a plain, out of banks of mist. It has a horn on its brow, a small yellow eye, a heavy lower jaw that hangs open with rows of blunt teeth, long fins with red ends, and a ring of rose light over its back. At the left is the trunk of a tree so big that it goes out of the picture, with its boughs overhead. Under the whale, hundreds of small riders wait in ranks with warm lamps. Near us, a boy in a white and black jacket sits on a black beast that stands on two legs, and looks up. The moon is high at the right.

This is the night of the White Whale in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, from the novels by Tappei Nagatsuki. For four hundred years the whale has come out of its mist over the roads, and the people that the mist takes are forgotten. Crusch Karsten brings an army to the Lifaus plain to kill it. They wait under Flugel's Tree, and then the whale comes.

The riders sit on ground dragons. Near us is Subaru in his track suit, on the black dragon Patrasche. He knows the hour at which the whale comes: he met it before, in a night that only he remembers. The painting has 26,442 brush strokes.