Environmental Story - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker, is a visually stunning video game with a very unique art style, especially for a game in the Legend of Zelda series. The environments you explore have simplistic textures but are very well-stylised and draw the player into the world, because of how well the art style establishes the mood of this world and the story being told. The art style is so creative that certain areas can fit the style but still establish a generally bleak and, in the case of the old Hyrule Castle underwater setting, even quite eerie atmosphere. As this is a video game, there is mise-en-scene that the player can find by exploring the environments that further tell the story.

Environmental Story - Steven Universe

The environments in Steven Universe are unique in the sense that it doesn't always fit the show's art style, but still works at setting the tone. The colours are all bright and vibrant, and the textures, while mostly smooth, have the sense of feeling like the texture i.e. when characters walk on stone or grass, you can really that they are. The setting and environments are all visually stunning, and even when the show gets dark at times, the environments are still beautiful, which rather than that sense of contrast be distracting, it instead shows that even the world is beautiful, it doesn't mean it never gets bleak at times.

Environmental Story - Kill La Kill

Kill La Kill has some of the most lively, colourful, and dynamic background art I have ever seen in an anime. It captures the mood of the show very well, by creating these wacky environments that are also very well-detailed, it shows that the world can be seen as both an exciting and a serious place. They are also so dynamic that it always feels like it is moving, especially when you consider the actual pace of the show. There is also some very obvious, and satirically so, symbolism with the design of Honnouji Academy; it is designed as this large school with a tall tower where the higher ranking students hail at the top, symbolising their authority and dominance over the school.