Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "@explainingamovie teaches you something new about movies everyday! Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s Akira (1988) is regarded as one of the most visually ambitious animated films ever made, with more than 160,000 animation cels and a budget unprecedented for anime at the time. To capture the neon-drenched cyberpunk look of Neo-Tokyo, Ōtomo’s team created and catalogued 327 distinct colors, including 50 that had never been used before in animation. Many of these new shades were