Anime Architecture: Bedachte Werelden en Eindeloze Megasteden

The definitive visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies. Anime Architecture presents breathtaking environments created by the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films, ranging from futuristic urban landscapes to intimate rural settings. The volume surveys cinematic arenas through original background paintings, storyboards, drafts, sources of inspiration and film excerpts, offering privileged views into the earliest conception stages of iconic scenes and their development into finished films.

In direct collaboration with the original Japanese production studios, this book provides rare insight into the creative processes behind beloved titles. It will resonate with fans of classic anime and serve as a resource for artists, illustrators, architects, designers, videogame makers and dreamers alike, documenting a lineage that has influenced cinema, literature and popular culture for decades.

• Comprehensive survey of cinematic anime environments
• Highlights Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Evangelion, Tekkonkinkreet
• Includes background paintings, storyboards, drafts and inspirations
• Produced in collaboration with original Japanese studios
• From early concepts to finished films
• A resource for artists, designers and game developers