Style: late-80s / early-90s anime illustration, neon-red gothic metropolis at night, skyscrapers glowing crimson neon, hazy red fog streets. cinematic cel-shading, thick outlines, vibrant flat colors, retro anime brush strokes, imperfect asymmetry, 1990s OVA style, Studio Ghibli + Evangelion vibe. Character: Carved wooden face with seams, stiff puppet expression, elongated rounded pinkish wooden nose, hollow glowing red eyes, black hair in the same style as the reference images, spiky facing down and out from under his hat. Wearing a green gold-trimmed tailcoat with matching trousers, lighter green vest underneath, red conical fez-style hat, alchemy vials with red liquid on his belt. Scene: The marionette sorcerer stands in side-profile, leaning slightly forward, overlooking the balcony of a top-floor suite apartment in the neon-red city. In the distance is a large, wide neon-lit building