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This anime, directed through Naoko Yamada, pales compared to Totsuko’s brilliant vision, which reports the minds of his bandmates as colors.
By Maya Phillips
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In the new anime movie “The Colors Inside”, a teenager named Totsuko has the synesthetic capacity to see the “colors” of other people: their auras or spirits, expressed in aquatic silhouettes. Totsuko meets Kimi, a former classmate, and Rui, a music lover with a university destination, and end up forming a group. The film reproduces as an extended stretching in the frifinishship that flora among the 3 teenagers, but despite all its tones, “the colors inside” does not look like a completely enlightened job.
While the movie begins, Totsuko frequents a Christian boarding school with Kimi, a popular woman whose color is a desirable electric blue. When Kimi suddenly leaves school, Totsuko excava her, even though everything finds her practicing guitar while running in a small remote bookstore. Purchases in the library are Rui, a child whose in -depth studies for his long -term medicine in medicine do not deter his secret love for the creation of music. The 3 agree to compose and play songs together, using an old church in a remote control of the island as a practice session space.
The movie’s action doesn’t extend much further than that; though the band is, for each of the three nascent musicians, a small act of independence, even rebellion, “The Colors Within” has such an aloof tone that the deeper motivations and stakes for each character, though alluded to, don’t feel substantial enough to provide the story with any sense of urgency.
Rui is quietly distant from his mother, who expects him to take over the family’s medical clinic. Kimi hasn’t told her grandmother, whom she lives with, that she has dropped out of school. And Totsuko, who once aspired to be a ballerina in the dance school her mother owns, now twirls through the halls on her own and tries to be the most respectful, devout student she can be. But “The Colors Within” is more invested in their enthusiasm for making music together than in the shared feeling of alienation, and the platonic (and even, perhaps, romantic) interest that led them to one another in the first place.
This musical anime of a slice of life is reminiscent of other musical films of adulthood such as “On-Gaku: Our Sound” and series such as “Carole
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