The directing trio pulled directly from Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — the neo-futuristic neon cityscape, the motorcycle slide, the saturated color palette suggesting a world that's both beautiful and collapsing. Miguel O'Hara's dimension is Akira remade as superhero universe. The film's art book documents this obsessively. Akira remains the visual blueprint for how to animate future cities. It's available on Criterion Channel.
Films That Influenced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
