environments to be very detailed much like the illustrated comic book version of the story.
The story is set after WW3 after a nuclear explosion destroyed Tokyo, 'Neo-Tokyo' is the post nuclear advanced futuristic setting that this story now plays out in.
Most of the story surrounding the setting of the city is told through its lighting and great sense of scale and detail that Otomo brings across in his original comic book version of the title.
In work that features a lot of detail I feel that it is the composition that makes somebody focus in on a certain aspect of an environment, this is certainly true for this piece of animation.
It is the transition from different settings and the variety of different settings in this animation that really begins to reveal to the audience the scale of the futuristic city that this story plays out in.
By analysing this animation, and comparing & contrasting it with an animated series like 'The simpsons', I find that the detail in the environment that the story is taking place in can affect the believe-ability of the animation dramatically. 'The simpsons' series does have some degree of believe-ablity to it but its a belief that is only relative to the characters in the story/animation. Whereas with 'AKIRA' the believe-ability stems from something that is more relative to our own reality, in the real world.
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