Illustrious XL is an open image model built on SDXL and developed by OnomaAI Research. It is designed to produce anime-style artwork at a native 1536 by 1536 resolution, so you do not need to upscale small images afterwards.
It accepts both natural language prompts and structured tags, which helps it follow instructions closely. The model is available on Hugging Face, making it a fit for people who run their own image generation setups.