Anime Architecture Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities

Great vision for the future. Highly recommend if you are a fan of anime or architecture.

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While I’ve never seen any of these animes, I was intrigued of the book because some artists I follow on Twitter recommended it and landscape/cityscape was never something I was good at drawing. In reading this book and looking at the photos, it gave me a new perspective on how I can frame my scenes and use my own photography as practice for drawing. A lot of these images, were shot on 35mm film and I shoot on film, so in reading this book, I learned how I could utilize my own photos the same way the creators used theirs to create their fictional world. Even the most simple of things, like a electric meter, can give the creators inspiration which was beyond me. Definitely recommend and love how it’s not text heavy.

IMPORTANT: I was able to buy this book here on January 31st, 2021 even though it has not been available since early December. I had signed up to receive a notification when the product is available but I never received one. I checked the product page periodically and on 01-31-21 I saw that copies had been made available. Without hesitation I purchased a copy and at that time there were 15 copies still available. Less than 10 minutes later, all of the available copies were sold. The moral of the story is, keep checking the product page.-I’m very happy that recently several books, in English, have been published highlighting what is often the unsung hero of animation, background artwork. The author puts his focus on the near future, often dystopian, metropolis backgrounds, which I personally find to be more beautiful than those produced by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli (I know, it’s sacrilegious to say however, I do still love Miyazaki’s works).This book is a must have for any fan of Anime and animation in general. Beautifully put together and beautifully researched. I’m very, very happy to have this in my collection.

Lo Loved it as an architect and anime fan