Colorful

Two horny college slackers and a beautiful professor. A frustrated TV reporter. A sexy track star and her tempted coach. And a high school girlzilla that’s the size of the Empire State building. Colorful! contains over 50 vignettes of men, women, and the pursuit of… well, you’ll just have to see.

From hotties on subways and perverted cabbies, to panty-obsessed video geeks, sexy mall babes, and the furry phenomenon, Colorful! is a strange, deranged, racy and hilarious dose of animated Viagra! (And if live action is more your style, check out the behind-the-scenes documentary that shows the twisted, demented cast and crew that bring Colorful! to vivid life!)

(Source: ADV Films)

Steve Main

Cho Japanese

Hirokawa Main

Canna, Nobutoshi Japanese

Yamamoto, Aki Main

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Chino, Shimoi Main

Kumagaya, Nina Japanese

Kariya Main

Nakamura, Daiki Japanese

Itani Main

Kawazu, Yasuhiko Japanese

Pamela Supporting

Takano, Urara Japanese

Girlzilla Supporting

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Jamie Supporting

Space Alien Supporting

Yamada, Miho Japanese

Abe, Shoujirou Producer

Nakamura, Ryuutarou Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Tsuruoka, Youta Sound Director

Tsuru, Toshiyuki Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Aug 17, 2022

stefxstefani

Recommended

I started my search skimming through the trashy animes that usually plague the pages of the MAL ecchi tag. And I ended it quite satisfied but perplexed. You see, it was to my understanding that fast-paced, over-the-top, almost YouTube Poop-esque comedy was something unique to the era of the world wide web. But here in front of me is an anime preceding the 2000s and its outlandish internet culture, that exhibits all of these characteristics. I am not so naïve as to say "Colorful is ahead of its time" but I believe it stands atop its contemporaries as what may have served as the inspiration ... for modern-day "meme-culture." It's a bit jarring seeing a lenny face and hearing memey audio-stutters in an anime from the 90s, to say the least. Despite some of its fast-forward humor, the anime seems to be ground in its era- pertaining to its peeping comedy (not that similarly perverse animes aren't released today). It is understandable as to why a woman may not find panty-gazing humor as funny as I do. Though unlike other ecchi anime, Colorful doesn't seek to justify or ignore its male characters sleazy activity; but to draw attention to it, satirize, and poke fun at the absurd lengths these men are willing to go to satisfy their voyeuristic urges. This is where much of the humor lies. Their panty-gazing exploits often result in them hurting and embarrassing themselves for the enjoyment of the audience. It wouldn't be very funny of the characters were simply to succeed in their sexual harassment. "Colorful's" art, music, and animation are equal parts amazing, its overall aesthetic stunning. The anime opens with a fucking ska song song and ends with an experimental French breakcore track. Spliced between segments of the anime are these MTV, magazine-esque montages. From beginning to end, its stylistic in a way that evokes the spirit of 90s rave and underground culture. It makes sense that an anime this unique and experimental was created by the studio responsible for animes like Boogiepop, Lain, and NieA.

Definitely worth the watch and one of my personal favorites as of now.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 28, 2019

thetickdickler

Mixed Feelings

There are many reasons why a piece of media is forgotten to the sands of time. Sometimes it's because something isn't very good, sometimes it's because it was released at a time that prevented it from getting a better foothold. In Colorful's case, it's because it just wasn't very memorable.

So what's the plot for this series? It doesn't have one! Based on a manga series, Colorful is a series that focuses on the misadventures of men staring, peeking, glancing, looking, and glaring at women and their efforts to get that extra eyeful of harmlessly exposed panties, bras, and occasional cleavage and the outrageous consequences of ... their actions.

It's more like a sketch show with a few re-occurring characters and exactly one sketch rather than an ongoing series, which should be pretty obvious with it's tagline "Roses are red. Violets are blue. This show's about panties."

Some series have a character that's a pervert for comedic relief, or even have it as the main focus, but Colorful distills the perverted comical relief down into 96 minutes, consisting of 16 short 6 minute episodes. The whole thing pretty much feels like a montage of the slapstick pervert characters from a bunch of other longer running series. By the end of the series it definitely feels a little long in the tooth, and it doesn't have the benefit of being broken up by an actual story or other events going on. It's ecchi comedy distilled into the length of a feature film.

I'd complain that a series with this little substance got made, but there have been series out there with somehow even less substance. And at least Colorful doesn't pretend that it's something that it's not. If anything, I can give this series credit for at least being interesting with it's animation and art style, often being mildly creative with the way it looks.

Coloful has been described as a very love it or hate it show, seemingly being described as "wildly funny" or "tasteless and depraved", and it's easy to see why. It's very unashamed of what it is, a series of vulgar panty jokes one after another with very little breathing room. I'm pretty sure there is an audience out there for something like this, but it would be an incredibly niche one at that.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 30, 2024

upsetkelen

Not Recommended

Basically, this is about huge perverts having unhinged sexual fantasies and losing self-respect just to see panties. I don't really know what made them to serialize this gag comic that's all about panties. I mean I get it, this is supposed to be funny because of the "whacky" faces the perverted characters make hen they humiliate themselves just to exercise their fantasies. You could say this is just straight up underwear fetish comedy. Also, considering the time this was made, it was probably experimental, there's nothing wrong with liking this type of humor, in fact, I could say I laughed at some moments. But I ... think it was more focused on the graphic stuff rather than the comedy, that's why it's kind of boring to watch throughout, I mostly skimmed it.

I guess I just have too much self-respect to give a rating about this in a "objective" manner, but I can't seem to stop myself from disliking it. It just leaves a bad taste for me and was just gross at most times.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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