[doublepg23]

I think the democratization means the heights won't be big-budget corporate things, they'll be on YouTube or Patreon.

[cedilla]

Akira was a big budget corporate thing though. It's technical excellence came from having the budget to employ multiple highly skilled animation leads and hundreds of animators drawing hundreds of thousands of cells.

[fidotron]

Conspicuously though Akira is a product of the manga industry and not the anime one. This is why it deviates from the norms in so many respects.