If you were to pick out the areas in which anime excels, building immersive new worlds would certainly be near the top of the list — just think of the fantastical settings of Studio Ghibli movies, ...

A new art book is on the way from Berlin-based curator Stefan Riekele that focuses on the stunning architecture and environments created for classic anime films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, ...

Watercolor paintings like this were used to produce the dark, dystopian worlds of cyberpunk anime Ogura / Masamune / KODANSHA · BANDAI VISUAL · MANGA ENTERTAINMENT The setting is a dark, futuristic ...

The intricate hand-drawn worlds of director Mamoru Oshii’s films hide lessons for architects. In most films, the scenery is merely a backdrop–the second fiddle to the dramatic tension between ...

An unrivaled visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies. Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the ...

A new book from Thames & Hudson explores the stories behind the elaborate cities and buildings of cult anime movies including Akira and Ghost in the Shell Anime Architecture brings together some of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Curator Stefan Riekeles began visiting Tokyo’s animation artists 10 years ago. In their studios, he discovered ...