1. Not all checkpoints "remember" the Zankuro tag very well because it gets overwritten during merging or finetuning. A Lora lets you enforce the style over top of other styles.

2. This Lora is lightly adjusted to get aspects of Zankuro's style without it being as extreme as it would be if you use the Zankuro tag in the prompt. Please take a look at this comparison https://civitai.com/posts/9411661

As you can see the Zankuro tag in the prompt works very well! This Lora ZankuroIXLLight_v2 isn't exactly the same and neither is my other Lora ZankuroStyleIllustrious_v3, but they let you choose how much of certain aspects of the style you want.

ZankuroIXLLight_v2 is named "light" because its very light and honestly its the best for making content without a risk of getting banned on CivitAI lol.

ZankuroStyleIllustrious_v3 is a nice balance between Zankuro and being overly "wobbly" and chunky like the image produced by the Zankuro tag.

"Zankuro" in the prompt -> Good luck not getting your images deleted by mods lol. There is no reason why someone must use my Loras I'm just providing options. I find one problem with Zankuro's style is that the fingers look really really bad sometimes but that's just my personal preference.

Thanks! I'm glad its working well!
I adjusted it several times to make it more compatible with Illustrious models.

Thanks. I'll look into minicop2001's style.