A single, perfectly composed 4:3 cinematic photograph of Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, shot right after a sudden summer shower.
The entire street is covered in a mirror-like sheet of rainwater that reflects everything above it like flawless glass.
Above the waterline: hyper-real 2026 Shibuya.
Towering curved 8K transparent OLED billboards, naked-eye 3D holograms of J-pop idols floating mid-air, salarymen in translucent raincoats and AR monocles, girls in techwear with glowing umbrella drones, cyan-magenta neon bleeding into wet asphalt, thousands of umbrellas blooming in perfect chaos.
Below the waterline, perfectly reflected yet terrifyingly real: 1926 Shibuya.
Low-rise wooden shops with sliding doors, hand-painted kanji signs for sake and kimono stores, rickshaws and early Model-T taxis, women in furisode kimono and braided hair carrying paper parasols, men in haori-hakama and geta sandals, soft gas lamps flickering, everything in warm sepia monochrome.
At the exact center where water meets reality, the boundary breaks:
A 2026 girl in chrome puffer jacket kneels and touches the puddle; her reflection is a 1926 geisha reaching upward; their fingertips meet at the water surface and create perfect concentric ripples that turn into glowing pixels.
A salaryman looks down and sees his own face aged 100 years staring back in horror.
A 1926 paper parasol floats upward out of the water and becomes a transparent umbrella drone.
Droplets fall upward from 1926 into 2026, becoming LED particles that explode into tiny holograms.
Everyone, past and present, is frozen mid-step, staring into the mirror-realm in pure shock and wonder.
Photorealistic octane render, 8K, razor-sharp reflection detail, anamorphic lens, subtle volumetric god rays cutting through rain mist, perfect water physics, colour grade shifts from electric neon above to warm sepia below, maximum emotional intensity.
--ar 4:3 --stylize 650 --v 6 --q 2
