Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comicbooks and video games around the world for decades.Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorableand breathtakingly detailed worlds designed by thecreators, from futuristic cities of steel to romantic rurallocales. Anime Architecture presents the fantasticenvironments created by the most important and revereddirectors and illustrators of Japanese animated films, suchas Hideaki Anno, Koji Morimoto, and Mamoru Oshii.Unprecedented access to vast studio archives oforiginal background paintings, storyboards, drafts and filmexcerpts offers readers a privileged view into the earlieststages of conception, development and finished versionsof iconic scenes from critically acclaimed films like Akira,Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis and more. Revealing thesecret creative processes of these major anime studios,Anime Architecture is perfect for anyone touched bythe beauty and imagination of classic anime, offeringinspiration for artists, illustrators, architects, designers,videogame makers and dreamers.