Kimi no Iro Episode 1 Discussion

Totsuko’s art style makes her look dumb. Wonder if that’s intentional or not. She can see the color of people’s souls, or that’s what I’d like to believe. She seems to like the color of Kimi, to the extent she admires her a lot. She seemed like a fangirl in love. In the bookstore where Kimi works, the band was formed so quickly with her, Kimi and Rui. From there, we see how their friendship progresses.

After performing a live at Totsuko’s annual event, she seems to have found her own color, Red. Soon, we see Rui departing, probably for his higher studies. Kimi and Totsuko cheer him on his journey. It was an open ending. But damn, there were a lot of Christian elements. The focus on it seemed much higher than others.

@Tsuyo_Mika I haven't heard the film being promoted as a romance anywhere. But knowing Naoko-san, she most likely wanted the audience to evaluate the emotions of the characters themselves without her disliked “this strictly means this”, etc.

@RobertBobert It's not romance, she was just being so focused on Kimi that it seemed like an obssessive fan. But once they began conversing, it became normal, like any other friendship.

Left the film with tears on my face. The last performance at the festival and the final 10 minutes or so were sublime and will stay with me for a while. Yamada-Sensei you’ve done it again. Thank you. This was such a beautiful watch. Ushio Kensuke’s soundtrack gave me goosebumps so many times throughout.

I’m always partial to these coming of age stories. Nothing groundbreaking here, but it’s very well done with beautiful production values. Science SARU are on a roll lately.

Kimi, Rui and Totsuko coming together and forming a band was so fun. The movie didn’t overstay its welcome either, nice short runtime that left me feeling very satisfied. Loved all the religious symbolism and imagery too. Appreciated seeing the Catholic faith accurately represented in an anime. Gained even more respect for Yamada lol.

My mom and I were jamming out to the last performance so hard. We were the only ones in our cinema. Such a great and pretty film. Also, S/O to sister Hiyoko for being such a great mentor. She kinda had to abandon her dream of being in a band as well. So this was a cool ending that sort of let her relive her youth!

Wow...just saw the dub they did such a good job. I am so in love with the dubbed songs. The third act really secured the 9 for me. This was such a well animated piece of work though. This is what I look for in anime.

What a coincidence that the last Naoko Yamada film I watched also had very repressed gayness. Except I feel in this case it was so repressed it wasn't even something Totsuko was aware of, let alone enough to address it in any capacity. It also felt like it was hinted at a few times that Kimi had feelings for Rui, but the film doesn't go anywhere with that either. It's more certain to me that Totsuko liked Kimi although I don't care that this wasn't a romance. Just another facet to the film that could've been delved into more along with religion. It felt like the meat was there, but I didn't get the chance to really sink my teeth into any of it, but I did enjoy the "training camp" moments, the Giselle/ballet scenes were very touching, and their music was fantastic. If the band was real, I'd be a huge fan. Shame they're not a real band.

@bucciest Considering that they used real children for the voice acting and considering Naoko Yamada's attitude towards romance or Japanese media's attitude towards LGBT issues, I think that even if something was hinted/teased, it was left more to interpretation and debate than anything romantic subplot. Although I (and I think she herself too) am more than sure that, like Hibike, the relationships of the characters will be strictly read by people depending on their preferences and only then depending on whether there was really something there.

@MasterHavik Third act was definitely the strongest part of the film. I hope there's plans to release official full-length versions of the English version of the songs.

@RobertBobert I'm not aware of what her attitudes are and children can voice LGBT characters (if that's what's being implied here), but lesbianism isn't taken seriously enough already, so it can be frustrating to watch something where it feels so strong underneath the surface yet never breaks through in any tangible way. This is more an issue I had with the other Naoko Yamada film that I saw even if I did like it, not so much with this one, because I can understand it not being important to the story, but the open-to-interpretation argument doesn't work with me when if Totsuko and Kimi were both not girls, but a boy and a girl, more people would be seeing the romantic undertones and it'd be treated more as an accepted possibility rather than something that's up for debate.

I don't get the low scores. It's not attempting to be another 'A Silent Voice' or "Liz and the Blue Bird', it's mostly just a vibe and I thought it was great. We didn't need another huge crisis to resolve at the end. That this has a score < 9 is more proof that there is something SICK about anime fandom.

The only thing I wished is if Totsuku's synaesthesia was more delved into. I do like that Yamada didn't make her out to be 'disabled', just different. The colors are a source of joy, not sadness.

I also liked that Totsuku was an earnest Catholic with all her constant prayers and crossing herself. Also I like that the young nun was once in a rock band, for a second I thought maybe she was one of the girls from K-On!

@mal_user_2022 This is proof only that people are not as enthusiastic about it like you. I agree that the movie is underestimated, but it can clearly not be called objectively low as a whole.

@RobertBobert I think anime fandom are addicted to movies that will make them instantly weep a river of tears and if it doesn't have THAT in it, they are not going to BASH that 10 into MAL.

I thought this was Yamada's most mature effort yet and can't wait to see what she'll do next. Perhaps write the screenplay. She needs to do the 'full Shinkai', where she comes up with the original story, writes and directs it.

@bucciest I hope so too. They did a good job casting for it. It's so nice seeing lesser known names get chances. The girl playing Kimi just got her first role.

@MasterHavik Yeah, the English VAs for the main trio were well casted! I liked all of their performances/voices and Kimi's VA also did a great job on the vocals of their songs.

@MasterHavik Yeah, the English VAs for the main trio were well casted! I liked all of their performances/voices and Kimi's VA also did a great job on the vocals of their songs.

@RobertBobert I think anime fandom are addicted to movies that will make them instantly weep a river of tears and if it doesn't have THAT in it, they are not going to BASH that 10 into MAL.

I thought this was Yamada's most mature effort yet and can't wait to see what she'll do next. Perhaps write the screenplay. She needs to do the 'full Shinkai', where she comes up with the original story, writes and directs it.

I think a 'vibe' film should be judged on its own merits, not against a 'tragic' type film. So on that level, The Colors Within gets a 10/10 from me.

I appreciate that Yamada challenged me to rethink my conception on what a 'high school, coming of age drama' should be. I think ya'll need more introspection.

I think a 'vibe' film should be judged on its own merits, not against a 'tragic' type film. So on that level, The Colors Within gets a 10/10 from me.

Theoretically I'm not supposed to 'relate' as a GenX to these characters who are not even college age. Yet I appreciated the angst and dilemmas they faced. The boy with the familial pressure to take over the medical practice, but insisting his musical hobby is legitimate to his mother. The guitarist girl dropping out because she doesn't even know what schooling will provide her. The pious MC wanting the be a 'good girl' but wanting to spread her wings at the same time. I like that her synesthesia was an attribute but not defining her completely. It's beautiful.

Just checked the box office, pretty shocking number. Although it's done better than Liz & The Blue Bird, in the big scheme of things it's a flop. I just don't understand. I wonder if many people felt it was a bait & switch. That the movie was about another 'disabled' girl and it really wasn't.

@mal_user_2022 Do not look for some excuses for this. Whether it was better than Liz or not, but the failure for the author’s anime films is not something new. Last year's film of Mari Okada also failed.

@RobertBobert Okada's stuff were in far less locations. I can see this tonight or tomorrow... There's like 6 showings (half subbed) and only like 2 seats bought so far...

I think the one thing that disappointed me the most was Higurashi's synesthesia wasn't a factor in the last act. Yamada seemed to make the whole film about this idea, but then it's abandoned.