Use @[storyboard ref] only for P## staging and direction. Ignore sketch artifacts; beats, references

Use @[storyboard ref] only for P## staging and direction. Ignore sketch artifacts; beats, references and four fields define final content. Use @[char1] only for the masked fighter's identity and wardrobe. Use @[char2] only for the horn-haired fighter's identity and wardrobe. LOOK + WORLD: Graphic 2D retro anime: heavy ink, flat cels, grain; night rooftop, billboard, cracked circle, tower, right parapet. Red-amber/navy/bone, hard rim, 18mm deep focus, dust. ACTION + CAMERA: Joint-led hand chains and weighted combat; intercut five linked seals each, accelerating into hard cuts. Alternate hand inserts with axis-locked wides, fast tracks, one P19 jolt; effects stay clear. VFX SYSTEM: His black-scarlet brush serpent, anchor and tether oppose her amber-gold blade fan, palm disk and spiral; clear origins, fast decay. SOUND: Taut percussion; wind, finger claps, cloth snaps, concrete hits and energy cracks. BEATS: P01: Waist-high low wide; masked fighter left blocks her airborne heel, bending both apart. P02: Waist-high frontal wide; he recoils to left billboard, she to right tower, both attack-ready. P03: Eye-level hand insert; his straight palms meet into Prayer Lock beneath the mask edge. P04: Eye-level hand insert; her joined thumbs and raised index fingers form Horn Frame beneath twin hair. P05: Eye-level hand insert; keeping palms joined, his fingers weave into Knuckle Braid. P06: Eye-level hand insert; her wrists roll inward, turning interlaced fingers out into Reverse Cage. P07: Oblique hand insert; his right hand threads through the left finger loop into Wrist Tunnel. P08: Oblique hand insert; her cage unwinds into touching finger circles, Twin Rings. P09: Low hand insert; his wrists turn out into mirrored hooked Split Fangs. P10: Low hand insert; her right fingers pass through the left ring into Spiral Lattice. P11: Ground-level medium left; Split Fangs close into joined hands aimed down, completing Ground Verdict. P12: Chest-high medium right; her lattice crosses at the wrists and opens into Open Lotus. P13: Eye-level frontal wide; his floor seal left faces her open-hand seal right across center. P14: Vertical top-wide; his floor raises a black-scarlet brush serpent and her hands launch an amber-gold blade fan; they hold at center contact, then fragment. P15: Shoulder-high wide tracking right; he bursts through the fading gap toward her parapet guard. P16: Chest-high tight two-shot; his left elbow meets her right palm, free hands contesting wrist control. P17: Canted waist-high medium; she crosses his front to the left, locking his right artist toward the edge. P18: Eye-level tight hand insert; her right keeps the lock while her left thumb pins two folded fingers into Ring Snap. P19: Knee-high low medium; Ring Snap lights an amber-gold disk from her left palm at his back, ejects him right and fades; one jolt. P20: Edge-level hand insert; airborne outside the edge, his right fingers form a one-hand Fang. P21: High-angle wide; the Fang fires a black-scarlet anchor from his right palm into a roof crack, arresting his fall. P22: Edge-high medium; Spiral Lattice sends an amber-gold suction coil from both hands. P23: Low exterior wide; the coil draws him up on his right anchor as his left palm tethers her right wrist. P24: Low exterior wide; the anchor snaps and her coil fades; his left tether pulls both down while his right and her left begin new seals.