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Colorful

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Colorful?
It sure is.
This release from ADV films is hilariously shameless. A series of loosely interwoven segments about the male libido, various characters pop in and out using a variety of art styles, symbolism (not too deep for the guys in the audience) and a bit of risque tidbits to tease as you sit back and enjoy.
I watched Colorful on the recommendation of a friend, my wife right beside me. She laughed even harder than I did. Because while this is definitely a series about men behaving badly, they often pay for it in the most extreme of ways. Voyeurism, tongue in cheek stories, and several head injuries to boot, this is one that will have you rolling on the floor in laughter.
Not for kids.
And check out the ADV behind the scenes "Documentary". Just how do voice actresses feel about having to do an anime with gratuitous panty shots? They'll tell you.
Fair warning. Do not buy this if you are looking for hentai. This is comedic farce all the way, and it's brilliant.

The best panty related series I've ever watched...Though highly exaggerated, I could sympathize with the variety of characters...One time or another many of us fellas have done something incredibly stupid for a mere glimpse of that cotton triangle...Humorously clever in its situations, dialogue, varied character personalities...I series that isn't for everyone...But if you're the guy that takes a second hidden glance at a pantyline while at the super market checkout...this anime is definitely for you...

The animation is clean, crisp and nicely done...some of the more "artsy editing" between the segments occasionally becomes a little irritating, and doesn't always fit as well as it ought to...The english dub is done vary well and in some places is a bit funnier than the original japanese...ADV's little documentary is very cute...and will give a chuckle...

Not for everyone...but a very clever and enjoyable animation in its own right...

"Colorful" is a much better anime than it has any right to be. It doesn't sound like much. 16 short animations about men's fascination with women's underwear, and the joy to be found in a tiny glimpse. But director Shun Nakahara obviously took his clues from shows like FLCL, mixing and matching animation styles, keeping things moving at a rapid pace, and delivered an innovative, clever and funny DVD.

For all its subject matter, there is very little naughty about "Colorful". This isn't going to get anybody going on a lonely night, and there is no sex or nudity to speak of. Its all about the little glimpse, the hidden flash of magic that lurks under every girl's skirts, and the lengths guys are willing to go to to sneak a peek. This is the kind of animation that could have only come out of Japan, where "panchira" is a national past time, the kind of thing guys will talk about over too many beers at a late night bar.

This is not just boy's fun either. My girlfriend, who hates anime on general principal, loved "Colorful", and was cracking up during the whole thing. This may actually be the only anime DVD she has ever watched with me from beginning to end. Essentially a series of comedy sketches, it delivers lots of jokes machine-gun style, and the constant switching of animation styles keeps it from getting boring.

A word of caution, however. The English dubbing should be avoided at all cost. They obviously saw the need to make what is essentially light comedy "dirtier". They replaced most of the best jokes with more direct language, and the two scripts have almost nothing to do with each other. I couldn't make it through the "Making of..." fake documentary either, which I found quite painful.

Though the cover says something totally different Colorful just happens be something other than perverted. It seems that not only is Colorful intended to make its viewers laugh hysterically but also teach guys a lesson about things they think they get away with. The situation is always the same but the scenario keeps changing. There's always a girl in an odd position at a store, swim practice, or even just outside waiting for a cab and she doesn't notice but the unsuspecting guy or guys quickly see.

The guys think they're having a good old time with it until something bad happens. The bad and ugly could be from a nosebleed to getting hit by a car but either way the lesson is always learned and always very funny. I guess you could say that Colorful shows how justice is served for the unsuspecting women all over the world but because colorful's comedy can be immature in a lot of ways people don't actually always see it the way I do. The animation is very nice even when their rough slow image is added to show how these guys feel after getting knocked around. It's a good series that won't get old quick.

"roses are red, violets are blue, this show's about panties."
SOLD.
the only thing you need to know is this:
when you see panties, drink.
we recommend small sips. its a long movie and there are lots of panties.

I first saw "Colorful" on TechTv's midnight anime block when I was in my early teens. A period of my life largely characterized by erotic fantasies born out of an endless supply of raging, insatiable hormones, and an obsessive compulsion to feast my eyes on the physical beauty of women present in my enviorment. As far as I was concerned, those 'feelings' were for the most part untranslatable, and I might have laughed at the notion of them being communicable through the medium of Japanese animation. Then late one night I sprawled across my bed and watched "Colorful". As I did so, I had to wonder if my mind was somehow transforming the sensory stimuli being received from the television, because it was as though I was witnessing vivid reflectional depictions of core aspects of my then current self. In the show, I saw my own obsessive lust exemplified in the concrete form of animation to a key...Some say that animation is the language of the soul. Well, this helped prove that to me!

The reviewer "Orbital101" is missing the picture. It's true the characters display little psychological depth, but that is because "Colorful" is all about lust! The personae are there to embody and powerfully convey pure unadulterated desire, to which most media dedicate negligible time. The show succeeds enormously in this regard and should at least be respected for it, if not praised outright!

If you are seeking explicit hentai as a masturbation aid, then know "Colorful" is NOT for you! Episodes play out like so many sexually obsessive mini adventures: arousal - pursuit - increased arousal - minor gratification. In other words, you'll be teased but you probably won't come. The show is more a chronicle of arousing, realistic situations than sexual fantasy. Which some may find refreshing.

Visually & audibly "Colorful" is very agreeable. The art direction is attractive, with mostly subdued colors; the animation is pleasingly energetic, and character anatomy is surprisingly realistic for the genre; you will see a variety of models helping to keep things fresh. The English voice cast are impeccable in their crazed performances and the music helps establish moods well.


I'd recommend "Colorful" most to horny guys who shy away from explicit hentai. It offers plenty of eye candy and outrageous humor but also offers the viewer some perspective on sexual frustration oddly enough.

I personally think that for an animated feature that this movie is so pervertedly corny and plotless that it doesn't even deserve to be on the market for others to rent or buy to watch. It's 16 episodes of perverted spoofs on a bunch of repeated acts of guys with a sense of abnormally horny crazy natures in ways that make most of them pills, by always trying to look for a chance to see up a female's skirt or down a female's blowse. Even by doing so, they are always getting turned on in such a horny enough way that they look as though like they are on the verge of nervous breakdowns or going into seizure attacks, even presenting with the appearance of super-deformed facial expressions, which look so different from their normal facial looks that no one in real life could look that way, even if they were the most turned on by what they see, hear, or feel the most that anyone in real life could ever be.
That's not all, either. They also take all these perverted spoofs enough to an extreme that they make males all around us look much more bad than they really are, and making all females who dress scantily in any kind of way look much more like victims to the males than they really are in real life. I'm sure that whoever Japanese writer wrote this series, that they made it to poke fun to an extreme at the perverts who exist in real life, even though for some, it would sure be an insult, and would also be a bad influence to watch, making so many females paranoid about how to dress in public and what to look for males doing. It vascelates between being funny as watching a ridiculous spoof and being an insult to males, making even any perverted at all ones in real life look bad. And on behalf of that and on behalf of freeing people from developing paranoia over the thought of if there are sneaky perverts swarming all around us in public, which isn't as true as this movie would make it look, I would discourage many people from watching this silly perverted animated comedy, for the sake of how it makes males and females look, and because of how, due to that, it might cause many of us to misinterpret the true much more innocent World around us like that. Plus, it might just fill your mind with a bunch of risque and perverted nature. Plus, even to every person out there who likes perverted humor, every episode is also worthless to watch, for the sake of them all tending to have no sensible plot to them. The one closest to a sensible enough plot (while still being about corny and horny perverted stuff) is the fifteenth episode. But for all, even that episode still had any guys with more of a perverted sense of intentions more than guys should, and would truly show.

panty shots-bra shots- and what men are willing to do to get them. i found it entertaining though a bit madcap which was the point i guess. i think the shorts are more for guys to enjoy but it is funny. I would look at my guy and he'd just nod like it was all true.

Good for a laugh

overhwleming and underhwelming, at times funny at times dumb, and way to hyperactive and hallucengenic, the only way anybody can fully enjoy any of this is probablly inebriated in some way or form. while at times funny its far too perverted, as well as,histronic,loud,and spazy.the anime summed around the obsession of panty shots and what not and the men who sweat bullets over them....thats pretty much about it. for a show about nothing it basically serves to druggy visual remixing and hyperactive intermission cuts virtually impossiblet watch without getting headache unless your on some serious drugs. the anime is saved by the dialogue gags which actually are kind of amusing but the site gags are so over the top and unfunny its seem like typical anime humor except even more teeth grindingly unwatchable.

S.S.S. stands for Seriously Significantly Stupid! And THAT'S a moment of truth. The animation is an absolute failure and the quarter-witted characters are obnoxious and lack ANY depth, sincerity, substance or charisma. Colorful is colorblind! It's an agonizing 120 minutes, and I couldn't make it past the first 30! It's in the trash now where it belongs! What a waste of time AND money! I wouldn't give this anime to my worst enemy! ADV films has somewhat of a tarnished reputation now thanks to this abomination. The same distributor who gave us such priceless gems like Petite Princess Yucie, Princess Tutu, Legend of Crystania, Zaion, Plastic Little, Battle Angel, The Girl From Phantasia, Devil Hunter Yokho, Elfen Lied and This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (Yes, I own all of these titles. I just haven't commented on them yet.), has sunk to a new low approving of this unpresedented disaster. O.K. I think that's enough hate for now. I just had high hopes for this anime and antisipated its arrival which was today. I only had an interest in it because the cover looked nice. Had I known ahead of time what the material consisted of, I NEVER would've wasted 17.99 on it. It certainly isn't worth THAT much! Take my advice, fellow anime lovers and pass this one over! Don't allow your intelligence to be insulted like MINE was! This is Orbital101 and I approve this message.