👘 Kisekae Head

Here's the thing that makes a character pipeline fall apart: you've got a face you like, and now you want the same face smug instead of smile. In a plain prompt you're editing one comma-separated string and hoping you don't knock out heterochromia by accident. There's no such thing as "change just this field" in a text box.

👘 Kisekae Head is that missing granularity. It's the head section of a Kisekae character - face, eyes, eyebrows, ears, mouth, expression, makeup, eyewear, accessories - and it lets you change one of those without touching the other nine.

How it works

The character is a dict passed on a KISEKAE_CHAR wire, one entry per section, each field carrying a value plus the node that set it. Head nodes can be chained, and the last one to touch a field wins.

Order of operations on every section node: the incoming character arrives, then the node's own preset pick replaces the whole head section if set (LoRAs included), then per-field overrides apply. Overrides beat everything, including that node's own preset.

Then there's the rendering trick that matters for head specifically. In Kisekae Prompt, {head} prints every head field in schema order - unless the template also names a field explicitly. The default anima-mixed template ends with {scene}, {head.expression}, so expression is printed once, at the end of the prompt, and pulled out of {head} so it doesn't appear twice. That's why the default layout puts the mood last instead of buried in the middle of the face block.

The inputs that matter

Eleven dropdowns: face, eyes, eyebrows, ears, mouth, expression, makeup, eyewear, accessories, and a multiline extra. Each has (keep), (clear) and its shipped values, and each has an advanced _text override plus an _append toggle.

For most people the three that earn their keep are eyes, expression and accessories. eyes is the identity anchor - 20-odd booru colours - and it's the field a scene preset should never stomp on. expression is the one you'll flip constantly, which is exactly why a scene preset applied in merge mode can set head.expression while leaving the rest of the head alone. accessories (choker, halo, horns, mask) drifts between "head" and "outfit" in your head; here it's head.

ears covers animal and elf ears - cat ears, fox ears, elf ears, earrings. Tails and wings do not live here; they're in Kisekae Body's extras. Getting that wrong is the classic first-hour confusion with this pack.

The preset dropdown lists only presets that define a head section. Output is a lone char - wire it to another section node or to Kisekae Prompt.

Install

ComfyUI Manager, search the pack title kisekae, or the manual route:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Kagejitsu/comfyui-kisekae

Restart. The pack declares no Python dependencies, so there's no pip install step and nothing to break on the next ComfyUI update. Nodes appear under kisekae, named "👘 Kisekae …".

Common issues

Two head nodes and the earlier one seems ignored. Section nodes replace whole sections when a preset is picked on them. If your second head node loads examples/characters/aoi as its preset, it resets eyes, mouth and everything else, then applies its own overrides. Use the preset on the first head node, or use Load Preset with mode: merge.

A negative tag never shows up. Per-field negatives (short hair for a long hair pick) only travel with dropdown picks. Typed text and preset values are never pruned and never add companion negatives.

(glasses:1.2) came out weird. Brackets inside a tag get escaped by the Prompt node - menacing (jojo) becomes menacing \(jojo\) - but real weights like (tag:1.2) are preserved. If you want to see exactly what happened, drop a Kisekae Debug Prompt after this node.

Dropdown values you want are missing. Add them on Tansu's Dropdowns page, then press R in ComfyUI to refresh the node dropdowns.