ARCHITECTURE IN ANIME

I'm an architecture student who loves anime. I post inspiring architecture I find in anime.

[architectureinanime]

I want to ask you if i could have those images in full hd with the view of sketching all these. I'm an architecture student too and i too love anime and i want to start drawing buildings with this techique, because i don't know, i feel so calm and peaceful when i'm staring at them. I'd really appreciate if you could give some aof these images in hd. Thanks optionaly.

I’d love to help you, but I don’t have them in HD quality either. All the images are screenshots i take from anime so this is the best quality i can offer. :)

[architectureinanime]

Zankyou No Terror (2014)

[architectureinanime]

Are you still active? I love this blog! I plan to studying architecture and I love anime as well, I really love the architecture in anime and I'm glad to see other people who appreciate it as much as i do!

Hi there! I’m really glad there are quite people who appreciate my blog. I’m really sorry but I haven’t been active for a long time because I’ve been quite busy with work. I still like anime though, but I don’t watch them as often as I used to. I post more on my main blog. I wish you all the best!

[architectureinanime]

Hi, I really like your Tumblr, which I just discovered and wanted to let you know about my own work on the same general topic. I wrote my thesis in 2007 on architecture and its representations in animé and manga and the entire thesis text except the illustrations is online at academia. edu, under author "Mike Walker" and with the title of "Representations of Architecture in Japanese Animé and Manga"

Thank you for the nice words! Your thesis seems very interesting. I don’t have any time to read it now though, because I have my finals exams these weeks. I’ll surely read it when I find the time. For anyone interested, you can read it here.

[architectureinanime]

Hey, I'm an architectural student who just wrote a dissertation on architecture in cartoon series. Though my focus mainly was on American cartoons, your blog was of great help! Thanks a lot!

Hey there! Thank you! I’m glad I could help.

[architectureinanime]

On behalf of cosplayers everywhere who spend unhealthy amounts of time googling and rewatching and screenshot-ing anime just to collect decent references for locations and backgrounds to get in our shoots... THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! Bless this blog!

Hey thank you!!! I’m really glad my blog could be of any help to you! Enjoy! :D

[architectureinanime]

hey! an incomin arch student from next fall. I just searched up 'architects in anime' as I was getting list of animes to watch during summer, and your blog popped up, and I find it really interesting and great. Keep up good stuff! :D

Oh thank you! I’m really glad you like my blog! I wish you the best in your new life as an architecture student! : )

[architectureinanime]

I really love your page. I just wanted to ask if I could request some backgrounds of Kyoto Animation. They're a really beautiful studio.

Hey thank you! ^^ To be honest I haven’t watched many anime by Kyoto Animation. I guess moe isn’t my style. But I’ve watched Clannad and Free! so maybe I make an entry about these two in the future :)

[irioko]

13 Works of Japan’s Anime Architecture

Anime have been a major genre of popular entertainment  in Japan dating back to 1917. The country’s unique style of animation, or anime, came into its own in the 1960s — notably in the pioneering work of Osamu Tezuka. In the 1990’s, a generation of architects, who came of age watching anime on television, were granted license to build fantastic creations fueled by the excess and lack of restraint that characterized Japan’s asset bubble. Since that era, Japanese architects have produced fantastical edifices that clearly owe a great deal of their creative inspiration to the country’s anime aesthetics.

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[architectureinanime]

Shingeki No Kyojin, definitely one of the greatest anime of 2013. Although I find it a bit overhyped, it's a great anime with a unique story and interesting characters. Compared to the manga, the art is quite detailed and satisfying. The OST is EPIC, so it's an anime definitely worth watching.

When humanity was in danger by the titans, large walls were built in order to protect humanity. The walls reach about 50m of height and reach four or five times a human's height below the ground. There are 3 Walls: Wall Maria, Wall Rose and Wall Sina. Wall Maria is the outermost wall of the human kingdom. Wall Rose is the second outermost wall following Wall Maria. The distance between Wall Rose and Wall Maria is 100 km, and the distance between Wall Rose and Wall Sina is 130 km. Wall Sina is the innermost wall protecting the kingdom where the king and other civilians reside. In the edges of the walls there are also small districts where small towns are located.

[architectureinanime]

heyyy, I'm working on a thesis that's about "architectural education through animated video games". I don't know if you have any information about that, but since we're both architecture students who love anime I thought maybe you'll also know anything that can help? Thanks for the awesome blog (You're on my reference list in this book ♥ )

Hey thanks for the kind words! I really appreciate it. That’s an interesting thesis, I bet you’ll do a great work. I don’t play video games unfortunately, so I really can’t help you on this. But I would really love to see the finished work. Could you please share it when you are finished? I would be really interested. 

[architectureinanime]

Have you seen any of the Universal Century Gundam shows? The O'Neill Cylinders (space colonies) are a mainstay, and would probably be very interesting to live in, and to boot its a real design for colonies too.

No I haven’t seen them yet. I remember reading somewhere about the O’Neill Cylinders, but I had forgotten what they were called, thanks for reminding! They are indeed quite interesting, with futuristic designs.

[architectureinanime]

Watamote or Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! is one of my favorite comedy/slice of life anime in 2013. The episodes are quite fun but sometimes painful to watch. I love the bits of comedy, parody and Tomoko's epic fantasies. The visual style is quite interesting, with some weird imagery and playful color schemes. One thing I really loved was the oddly angled lightning, which I've never seen in any anime. The architecture is quite plain and simple, with the odd interior perspectives being the highlight. I found it quite interesting when Tomoko's room switched to plan view. 

[architectureinanime]

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. I really wasn't expecting this series to be this dark and deep. Although I would prefer if the character design was a bit different, (that kawaii loli isn't my thing) but I guess moe sells. I really liked the unique animation style they used in the witches realm. It looked like an animated "moving" collage. Architecture here is quite fluid with glass designs which give us a futuristic feel. Madoka's school looks so cool, with those glass-made classrooms, spiral stairs and that awesome rooftop. The use of glass makes it look like a futuristic world and the backgrounds look quite neat.

[architectureinanime]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. One of the greatest fantasy shounen anime, ever. In the beginning I was quite sceptical on watching it, because I really don't like long anime series but now I regret I didn't watch it earlier. Definitely a must watch for everyone. The story is so great, the music is superb and the animation is pretty neat. Amestris is the country that serves as the main setting of Fullmetal Alchemist. Amestris is composed by several former nations, quite diverse in culture and religion. The largest city in Amestris is Central City which has a radial urban plan and kinda reminds me of Palmanova town in Italy. The buildings are plain and organised, typical for 19th century.

[architectureinanime]

Ghost In The Shell. Definitely stands most likely as one of the best in overall and most influential cyberpunk work in movie history. Cinematography is masterful, the animation is so detailed and the music couldn’t be better. Director, Mamoru Oshii was looking for a model of the city of the future and he turned to the cityscape of Hong Kong for his inspiration. He did a great job in turning the real-life streets of Hong Kong into hyper-stylized, dreamlike city of the future. A city set in 2029 as imagined in 1995.

[architectureinanime]

Spirited Away. The Studio Ghibli masterpiece which became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history. And it’s obvious why. If you haven’t seen it already, go watch it! It is a journey full of fantasy and adventures that you will hardly forget. The art is mesmerizing, with insane details, great color scheme and light. The buildings have typical Japanese architecture and the interiors are so rich in details, with corridors lined with vases. I mean look at those vases! Definitely a must-see for all the anime lovers and not only.