The green color is characteristically used in the movie 'AKIRA'

Nibnalin, who is studying mathematics and literature at the University of California San Diego, has published a paper that analyzes a movie after visualizing it with color information. Among them, it has been pointed out that 'AKIRA,' which is the subject, uses green among the three primary colors red, green, and blue in particular.

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In an attempt to visualize a movie, there is a 'movie barcode' that extracts the dominant colors for each frame and arranges them in a line to make it look like a barcode.

When 'AKIRA' is converted into a barcode using the same method, it looks like this.

nibnalin did not just extract the colors, but also visualized the hue, saturation, brightness, and warm/cold colors. The following is an example of hue.

The temperature change looks like this. By visualizing in this way, you can see that 'AKIRA' becomes more blue as the work progresses. According to nibnalin, this expresses the fourth act 'falling' (the enemy's hostility defeats the soul of the hero) sung by writer Gustav Freitak .

Speaking of 'AKIRA', the trail of light left by the tail lights in the bike chase scene is well known, but the red and orange lights that show speed and agility show who the audience should chase. That there is. In fact, Kaneda's bike draws a track, but the members of Crown, the opposing team, do not draw a track. The lack of tracks makes the Crown bike slow and clunky.

On the other hand, what is characteristic is that there is little 'green'. In the color diagram below, you can see that green (left) is clearly less than red (upper right).

Nibnalin analyzed that 'it is not accidental that the artist like Katsuhiro Otomo reduced green, which is one of RGB, is intentional.' In fact, the rare 'green' is used in the clothes of Tetsuo who is entrusted to the facility and teachers of the facility who care about such Tetsuo, for example, in the recollection scene of Tetsuo after waking up to the ability. Also, the clothes of Tetsuo who are confused by their abilities are green. However, since the clothes of Tetsuo who began to use their abilities for destruction will change, Nibnalin speculates that Otomo may have reserved green for 'good'. When talking about green in the work of 'AKIRA', the color of the faces of the three numbers (experimental bodies) is symbolic, but this is a hint to show that 'the audience will be on the side' is.

In addition to this, nibnalin also analyzed 'GHOST IN THE SHELL/Ghost in the Shell', but this did not show the clear color tendency as 'AKIRA'.


'AKIRA' was released on April 24, 2020 in a 4K remastered version, and it has also been released to theaters at a part of the movie theater where the self-restraint by the new coronavirus opened, so again, story and action and It may be interesting to look at not only the music but also the colors.


``AKIRA 4K Remaster Set'' (4K ULTRA HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Disc) on sale April 24 PV-YouTube