Here is a list, categorized by anime, where I collect screenshots taken from anime I have watched. I always found the background work in anime to be strangely alluring; while the foreground action and the characters themselves tend to be drawn in a streamlined fashion, backgrounds are often drawn like paintings: dreamy, lush, melancholy, evocative. It just makes me want to stop to admire them.
Stills from the 2026 Ghost in the Shell anime.
Stills from Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell.
Stills from the 1998 Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou OVA.