# Anime battle trailer: Claude vs ChatGPT

> A 100-second anime-style trailer in which Claude and ChatGPT fight to be the best AI model. Opus 5.5 downloaded the fonts, made the audio, and drew every frame in JavaScript in one shot, which the creator says took 1.5 hours and $28 of API usage.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: Plain JavaScript
- Style: Short films; anime, trailer, battle, parody, letterbox, neon city, mecha, chibi
- Length and format: 2 min, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @ishuagra02 in X, Sep 24, 2026: https://x.com/ishuagra02/status/2103247844542922825
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
3. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Swap the fighters ("Claude and ChatGPT") and the stakes ("to be the best AI model in the world"), and change "Art style must be anime-like." for another look.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
I want to create a highly-detailed video trailer featuring Claude and ChatGPT having a ruthless battle to be the best AI model in the world. Create an engaging story and make it action-paced with proper use of visual and sound effects. Art style must be anime-like.
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

An anime battle trailer in a letterboxed frame: a red-haired swordsman in a white coat stands for Claude and a white-haired figure in black with teal energy for ChatGPT, fighting over a neon city under a full moon.

- Color: Night navy and violet skies, a white full moon, Claude's orange and red against ChatGPT's teal and green, magenta neon windows, and a warm pastel sky for the closing gag.
- Type: Wide-spaced caps for title cards (TWO MINDS., FINAL BENCHMARK) with small Japanese lines under them, a large glowing kanji attack name over CONSTITUTIONAL CUT, the katakana sound effect ドン, a subtitle with a ChatGPT name tag, and a rounded chat bubble at the end.
- Framing: Cinemascope bars top and bottom. The fighters face off from either side with the moon between them, speed lines and particles cross the frame, and one extreme close-up isolates an eye.
- Sound: Audio the model created itself, per the creator.
- Structure: The title TWO MINDS. on black, a FINAL BENCHMARK countdown over the city, a close-up of an orange eye, the clash under the moon, the CONSTITUTIONAL CUT attack breaking the rival into particles, ChatGPT answering from a dark cloud, two giant mechs over the skyline, a black starfield, and a chibi ending in which a user asks them to just help write an email.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 5.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 16.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 28.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 39.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 50.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 61.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 72.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 84.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 95.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/anime-style-battle-trailer-claude-vs/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Agent time: 1.5 hours
- Reported spend: $28 in API usage
- Notes: Per the creator, the model downloaded the fonts, created the audio, and generated each frame with JavaScript. The agent isn't named.

> I can only imagine the output with proper storyboarding.
> (@ishuagra02)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/ishuagra02/status/2103247844542922825
- Original post: https://x.com/ishuagra02/status/2103247844542922825
- Prompt, posted as a reply: https://x.com/ishuagra02/status/2103247960272433307