Akira wasn’t just a game changer for challenging the kid-friendly Western perception of animation back in 1989. The critically acclaimed anime movie was also a technical achievement for the Japanese anime industry. Akira consisted of 2,212 shots and 160,000 single pictures; 2-3 times more than the average anime movie.
Among the anime movie’s record-breaking usage of 327 colors, 50 were created exclusively for the film. The reasoning for all this? The majority of Akira takes place at night; a setting animators commonly avoid due to increased color requirements.
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