Akira’s secret weapon is its clever use of lighting

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Akira is generally recognized as a masterpiece of animation, and it’s highly regarded for a number of elements—including its mature storyline, its gorgeous animation, and the iconically emphatic performance of Kaneda’s English voice actor. One of the film’s greatest strengths that is rarely highlighted, though, is (ironically) its use of light. This video from YouTube page The Nerdwriter looks to change that by breaking down the way Akira uses light and how the very idea of light impacts the story.