Anima Clothing Tag Selector

Clothing is where anime prompting gets fiddly. You know the character is wearing a school uniform or a swimsuit, but Anima responds to specific Danbooru-style tags, and "plaid skirt" as a tag isn't the same as "plaid skirt" as an idea. The Anima Clothing Tag Selector is the pack's way of skipping the tag-guessing: a visual library of outfit and fashion prompts, bilingual (Chinese/English), that you browse and click into your prompt.

It's one of the newer nodes in Anima-Tools - the README still only documents the artist/character/clothing trio plus the composer and LoRA loader, but the shipped code has had clothing's expanded siblings (background, pose) for a while. The pattern is the same across all of them: a frontend grid with preview cards, plus a thin Python node that cleans and emits the tags.

The panel's actual controls live in the frontend: browse by major category (dresses, everyday, uniforms, swimwear, fantasy, "sexy" tier), drill into finer features like lace, off-shoulder, tall boots, garter belts, and manage favorites plus your own custom entries. The node side is deliberately boring - that's a feature.

What it does to the tags

The backend is a pass-through cleaner, no @-wrapping and no by -stripping like the artist node: it splits clothing_tags on commas, trims whitespace, drops empties, and rejoins. (The _raw_: prefix lets you inject a tag untouched.) Then the same append/override dance as the rest of the family:

• clothing_tags - the comma-separated list the panel fills.
• mode - append (default) prepends clothing to opt_prompt; override replaces it.
• opt_prompt - optional existing prompt to merge with.

Single text STRING output, ends with the familiar trailing ", ". Wire it into a CLIPTextEncode positive, or use the pack's Prompt nodes if you're composing multiple sections.

Install and gotchas

Zero-dependency pack, no pip, no model files:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/nregret/Comfyui-Anima-Tools

...or Manager → search "Anima Tools" → Install, then restart ComfyUI. It's under AnimaArt as "Anima Clothing Tag Selector". Preview images come from a CDN, so the visual grid wants internet even though the tags themselves are bundled locally.

Worth knowing: Anima's training is tag-driven and it will happily ignore a clothing tag that isn't in its vocabulary. This node helps because the bundled library was curated from the tags the model actually knows - the equivalent of the "look up the danbooru tag" advice, without the wiki. If your outfit isn't rendering, check whether the tag you picked is a real one rather than restating the same idea in prose.