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 ...

The highly detailed drawings used to create the backdrops of animated Japanese movies like Ghost in the Shell are the focus of a new exhibition in London. Currently on show at House of Illustration, ...

Image created using AI under the prompt: A sober and captivating visual representation of an urban environment that flawlessly captures the essence of anime and architecture. Image via DALL·E 2 Image ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a trip to Tokyo in 2007, Berlin-based art curator Stefan Riekeles spent time with local anime artists in their studios, where he stumbled upon thousands of landscape illustrations stashed away ...

Manga is an umbrella term for a wide variety of comic books and graphic novels originally produced and published in Japan, and unlike western comic books that we may be more familiar with seeing ...