Character: An animated marionette wizard. His carved wooden face has seams and a stiff puppet expression, with an elongated pinkish wooden nose, and hollow glowing red eyes like a marionette. He wears a green gold-trimmed tailcoat with matching trousers, a lighter green vest underneath, a red conical fez-style hat, and alchemy vials with red liquid hanging from his belt. The marionette sorcerer stands in side-profile, leaning slightly forward to study a large glowing hologram screen projection being projected from a street-side device. The hologram fills much of the foreground, a floating, blue, semi-transparent blue projection with glowing futuristic interface lines and bold headline text: "CASE #8991". Light from the hologram reflects across the puppet’s wooden face and coat. 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.