ARCHITECTURE IN ANIME

Anime {JAPANESE ANIMATION} is something in which I have been interested in a very long time and I was also planning to have a career in architecture. Architecture for me is the design of buildings, structures, objects, or spaces for a specific purpose. Be it simply for shelter, for oneself or for the art of it, is very much calculated in the way approaching designing something like this you think about every single variable and try to account for as many different types of uses as possible. I have heard about the architectural writings of many architects but never read about architecture and its uses in other mediums of expressions such as mediums like film and animation.

According to my observation, when you start watching any animated series/shows there are usually specific ways in which a show will use architecture as a visual storytelling device to establish what kind of world are you in and also what kind of era the story belongs to and gives a peek in what kind of story the show will lead to. If it's a fantasy genre, you can see a medieval castle, or if it's a sci-fiction genre we notice a lot of skyscrapers touching the sky and much-advanced technology. This is an easy way to establish what are you expecting from the show in terms of many factors. 

Architecture is most noticeable in animated series when it's used to establish the setting of the series. The location where the story unfolds, which means it's important to see how they affect and are affected by the characters who interact in them. A great way to define the atmosphere of the setting is through architecture. The primary thing is to differentiate between the locations and when an anime takes place in multiple locations, it's important to known the difference between each spot. If the city is real, normally it's recognized by the architecture there. For example, 

LONDON BRIDGE {IN ANIME- BLACK BUTLER}

TOKYO TOWER {IN ANIME MOVIE - TOKYO MAGNITUDE 8.0}

There are real-world references to communicate major factors about the new imagined cities where architecture is really good at and can easily tell by the city in series how it's layered, whether the society is in peace, chaotic.

POMPIDOU CENTER, PARIS {A HOSPITAL BUILDING IN ANIME- MAWARU PENGUINDRU}

The backdrops in the series not only talk about the city's condition but also how the characters are involved within the space, how the character uses the space, have bonded to a particular corner of that space. Anime shows the emotions of the character through the backdrop, as the emotion changes backdrop changes.