In the 1980s anime became established and popular in Japan experiencing high prosperity. 'Gundam' (1979 by Yoshiyuki Tomino), 'Macross' (1982 by Shoji Kawamori) and 'Dragon Ball' (1986 by Akira Toriyama) rose in popularity as did the genres real robot, space opera and cyberpunk. 'Akira' (1988 directed by Katsuhiro Otomo) was an anime film that was seen as part of the rise of the cyberpunk genre. It was seen as a revolutionary film for anime as it used the technique of pre-recording (which is the process of voice acting first before animating the mouth movements and timing to match the sound recording) which continues to be an inspirational technique for many anime to this day. Anime such as the well known films by Studio Ghibli use this technique. However, as they are animated to synchronise with the original Japanese voice acting, the effect is lost when the films are dubbed into English . 'Akira' set records for the cost of producing an anime film and became a well known success worldwide. Directed by and co-written by the same director of 'Akira', 'Steamboy' then took over as the most expensive anime film.
Series like 'Gundam', 'Macross' and 'Dragon Ball' have become so popular that they have been airing multiple series till this day and I'd expect for the foreseeable future, e.g. 'Dragon Ball Super' (5 July 2015), 'Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt' (25 December 2015) and 'Macross Delta' (April 2016).
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