Anime Portrait Mod [4.5]

Introduction

Hello and welcome to my humble anime conversion/overhaul of (almost) all Stellaris portraits!

I've been working on this for a few years, but it's still not finished due to a lack of time and ideas (Feel free to suggest!). This project started back when I first began playing Stellaris, as a haha funny inside joke in my friend group. That joke led me to edit the Animaris mod and create an SS-inspired portrait set—which you can still find here. (Don't worry, it's placed in a specific slot that prevents it from spawning naturally.)

Eventually, I started creating more anime girl portraits to replace the species that Paradox introduced with DLCs. Over time, I moved my personal work across different anime conversion mods—starting with Anime Galaxy and later the now-gone Anime Fantasy Species Pack. The moment I saw Anime Fantasy Species Pack disappear, my reaction was: "Oh shit." And that’s when I decided to set this mod to public. I know how it feels when your favorite mod just goes poof.

Now, a year or two later, here we are. The mod is still somewhat incomplete—most DLC-added portraits haven’t been replaced with anime girls yet. (Again, feel free to suggest ideas! One of the biggest challenges is coming up with new ones.)

Content added by me:

• Avians: Harpy and Tengu/Oni
• Humanoids: Normal Humans, SS-inspired military humans (Won't spawn naturally), Elves, Blue tentacle skin tentacle hair, dark skin tentacle hair, Goblins, Angels, and Cyclops, Orcs, Glorpian.
• Mammalian: Rat/mouse girls, Cat, Anubis, Sheep, Cow, Bunny, Wolf. UMAMUSUME,
• Plantoids: Floran, Ent/Tree/Dryad girls
• Reptilians: Kobold, Horned Lizards, Turtle girls, Frog girls, Dragon girls.
• Molluscoid: Yellow banana slugs, Inklings, "Starfish" Gyaru gals.
• Necroids: Zombies, ghosts
• Aquatics: Mermaids, Sharks.
• Lithoids: Lava/Crystals
• Fungoid: Moshroom cap girls.
• Arthropoids: Ants, Moths, Spiders, Bee, Fae/Fairies.
• Robots: Twins (Atomic Heart), Steambots
• Infernals: ToxFire (Toxic FIre or green/orange atronachs), Plasmoid (Soda Slime), Demon girls, Hydralisks

To make it short, This mod changes most portrait sets and most paragons (Also the synth queen).

AND ALSO...

IT IS IRONMAN COMPATIBLE RAAAAHHHH!!!!!

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Other Related Mods

Non-replacer mod - This is in case you don't want the entire list of anime girls and are fine with only the ones i've made. Updates in that mod are delayed in comparison to this mod, say, a week or two between versions.

Premade Anime Empires - Some custom empires i made a long time ago to go along with this mod and my modlist. I never thought I would release them to the public but whatever.

Compiled traits + Velosid Additions - Some Species traits I ALWAYS use on my games. Not really fully related but you do need to use this if you want to go with the premade anime empires. Additionally, I do have plans to add more traits to this mod to make it more related to this one.

Origins - Velosid Ver. - On my drive I had this origin mod that seemed kinda old. I don't know the author name or the mod name since I didn't save it but the files had russian notes and 'Simple x' naming pattern so I assume the name was something like 'Simple Origins' or similar and the author was russian... Unfortunately I could not find anything related to it on the internet so, as a part of an experiment, I decided to update it to 4.5 (works on 4.4 too). It has the 5 original mods and I added 2 more, anime related!

Oh, and if you feel like donating to me here is the link. https://ko-fi.com/velosid

You can also join my Discord server if you want to ask me anything or want to talk more closely about recommendations, suggestions and such. Disclaimer: My discord server is not fully mod/modding oriented, just a silly private server i have with some friends and some fellas that joined from the same link—Mostly a meme server but I do post updates there quite often.

Additionally, you can check my devianart page if you wish to see the original (and previous) versions of the images i use. I don't post every single one to avoid spam but most of them are there

AI-Assisted Content: The portraits I personally added were created using a hybrid workflow. While AI tools handled about 70% of the heavy lifting for the base generations, absolutely none of them are raw, unedited outputs. Every single image was manually curated, inpainted/outpainted, and heavily edited by me in Photoshop/paintnet to fix details (like eyes and hands) and color balance.