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Akira, God's Wrath: The Movie That Changed Anime Forever

Leonardo DiCaprio and Taika Waititi are going to shoot a fiction film "Akira" based on the manga of the same name. Here's how her first film adaptation, released in 1988, changed the world of Japanese animation forever and influenced Western cinematography. July 16, 1988. An explosion occurred in Tokyo, which almost completely destroyed the city and unleashed the Third World War. From this begins the “Akira” Katsuhiro Otomo... The main plot of the film takes place 31 years after the disaster. In 2019, the metropolis - now called Neo Tokyo - is still standing. The neon ruins are inhabited by unemployed marginalized people, religious fanatics and teenage biker gangs. While the former arrange terrorist attacks and receive batons from the police, the latter are driven among the skyscrapers on futuristic motorcycles and beat each other's muzzles. One of the bikers, Tetsuo, during another outing, knocks down a strange child with blue-green skin. Both boys are taken awa...

ART THAT SHOWS HOW JAPANESE FASHION HAS CHANGED OVER 10 YEARS

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Today, girls in Japan look very different than ten years ago. It can be difficult to keep up with the fashion world, especially in Japan, where fashion trends are constantly evolving rapidly. Japanese Twitter user and artist Satoimoya ( @ petit_flare ) is following this development very carefully and with the help of a simple art that has been surfing the Internet lately, she decided to show us how modern Japan’s fashion has changed over ten years. Having depicted two girls on the kissanime , the author shows that now there is the fashion in non-contrasting and not too saturated colors, which Satoimoya calls “Hikizan Fashion” (“Minus Fashion”). Ten years ago, the trends were completely opposite - the trend focused on the contrast of colors and rich shades - this author describes as “Fashion Tashizan” (“Plus Fashion”). ▼ Of course, a decade ago, clothes were much brighter, judging by the girl from 2010 (right). What a fashionista from 2010 shows from head to ...