Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara (Iroduku: The World in Colors)

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Japanese: 色づく世界の明日から

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 6, 2018 to Dec 29, 2018

Premiered: Fall 2018

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:55 (JST)

Producers: Sotsu, NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, Infinite

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: P.A. Works

Source: Original

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Themes: Love Polygon, School, Time Travel, Visual Arts

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.52¹ (scored by 131,288 users)

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Ranked: #1831²

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Popularity: #706

Members: 333,810

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Despite the kaleidoscopic magic ingrained in everyday life, Hitomi Tsukishiro's monochrome world is deprived of emotion and feeling. On a night as black and white as any other, amidst the fireworks spreading across the sky, Hitomi's grandmother Kohaku conjures a spell, for which she has been harnessing the moon's light for 60 years, to send Hitomi back in time to the year 2018 when Kohaku was in high school.

Hitomi's mission seems unclear, but her grandmother assures her that she will know when she gets there. Following a trip through time aboard a train driven by a strange yellow creature, Hitomi finds herself in stoic artist Yuito Aoi's room, and his drawings flood her world with color. What is Hitomi's purpose there, and why do Yuito's drawings return such breathtaking color to her drab world?

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Tsukishiro, Hitomi

Main

Ishihara, Kaori
Japanese

Tsukishiro, Kohaku

Main

Hondo, Kaede
Japanese

Aoi, Yuito

Main

Chiba, Shouya
Japanese

Kazano, Asagi

Supporting

Ichinose, Kana
Japanese

Fukazawa, Chigusa

Supporting

Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Yamabuki, Shou

Supporting

Maeda, Seiji
Japanese

Kawai, Kurumi

Supporting

Touyama, Nao
Japanese

Tsukishiro, Gen

Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Tsukishiro, Ruri

Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka
Japanese

Tsukishiro, Yuzuha

Supporting

Han, Keiko
Japanese

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Maeda, Toshihiro

Producer

Nagatani, Takayuki

Producer

Aoi, Hiroyuki

Producer

Tsuji, Mitsuhito

Producer

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Opening Theme

"17 Sai" by Haruka to Miyuki (ハルカトミユキ)

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Ending Theme

"Mimei no Kimi to Hakumei no Mahou (未明の君と薄明の魔法)" by Nagi Yanagi

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Mar 10, 2023

Sei_Shinohara484

Recommended

Color not only makes the world more beautiful but also expresses one’s innermost emotions. As Henri Matisse stated- “Color helps to express light—not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists”, from which he clearly refers color as the mechanism through which abstract internal processes and emotions are realized.

Such can also be said for a series named Iroduku: The World in Colors (いろずくせかいのあしたから Or Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara) (2018). This series showed the story of Tsukishiro Hitomi, a young mage who lost her sense of colors despite being ingrained with kaleidoscopic magic. On a night as monochrome as ... usual, amidst the fireworks spreading across the sky, her grandmother Tsukishiro Kohaku sent her sixty years back in time in order to find her true purpose.

This series beautifully showcased the gradual change in Tsukishiro Hitomi as she tried to overcome her condition with the support of her fellow classmates. I liked how she started seeing colors through the artworks made by Yuito Aoi despite seeing everything around her monochromatically, which not only helped her to find what her true purpose is but also rekindled Aoi’s passion for art. I also liked how this series depicted it’s key plot elements- Photography, Art & Magic with respect to its story.

There was a sequence of dialogues in this series that I really liked-

“You know, when it comes to pictures, you can never take the same one again. Different people lead different lives, and after dark, the same light that was on yesterday might not be today. And before you know it, the scenery changes, never to be the same again”-Yamabuki Shou. In my opinion, it beautifully expressed the significance of portraying the events of daily life through photograph, which was also one of key plot elements of this series.

This series had quite beautiful opening and ending songs. Especially I liked Mimei no Kimi to Hakumei no Mahou (みめいの君とはくめいのまほう) by Nagi Yanagi (なぎやなぎ) (commonly known as Yanaginagi) (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara Ending Song) the most.

I really liked the overall animation of this series as well,as it was made by the studio named Progressive Animation Works, also known as P.A.Works which is famous for making animes made with picturesque animation style such as, Nagi no Asukara, Shiro Suna no Aquatope, Hanasaku Iroha, Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou etc. Especially I liked how the studio illustrated the transition from monochrome state to color state in the opening sequence, as well as the ending sequence of every episodes so beautifully.

Need to mention that, the place shown in this series is based on the city of Nagasaki, the capital of Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Feb 27, 2024

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

tl;dr: A film with a few interesting aspects and great art in some respects but overall really weak writing.

Iroduku is an anime that has a very busy beginning. It’s starts out in the future so it has a bit of sci-fi going on. However, the protagonist Hitomi and her grandma are mages who can use magic, which her grandma suddenly uses to send Hitomi 60 years into the past. Hitomi suddenly appears in the middle of someone’s room and has to sneak out, leading to a strange misunderstanding in the process. And to top it all off, Hitomi is fully colorblind, meaning she sees in ... monochrome, as a result of some sort of emotional trauma. I really liked how it just threw so much at you all at once and thus I found the start of the anime to have quite a lot of promise.

However, as it progresses it shifts away from the extraordinary into something a lot more grounded. And unfortunately I can’t say I really enjoyed that much. It’s pretty much just an incredibly generic teen drama. It has all the standard tropes: a shy and gloomy protagonist slowly opening up and becoming more cheerful, a love polygon that causes conflict between two friends, a dense male character who is the only one that doesn’t realize a girl has a crush on him, a teenager contemplating their future planning on taking the safer path but being inspired to instead pursue their dreams, etc. I don’t think being generic or full of tropes is a bad thing. And I’m fine with a story being completely generic if the execution is good. However, I don’t think this was handled all that well.

I feel the biggest problem is that it’s trying to do too much while also trying to spend enough time doing nothing at all. It has a lot going on in terms of characters. The character’s may be tropey, but in the end they all do have stories and motivations and relationships. And the writing tries to flesh out all of this for everyone. This may have been possible in thirteen episodes if it was focused enough, but this is also an anime that’s trying to build a strong sense of tone and atmosphere. It spends a lot of time just showing Hitomi and the group of friends she makes just hanging out and doing random club activities. These portions do slowly demonstrate the growth and change in characters, but subtly and often not as the focus. As a visual novel reader, I’m certainly not opposed to that either as it can be a great way to build investment in characters, but the key thing is that it takes time to do so which this anime simply doesn’t have enough of. I also felt that the writing wasn’t all that great at comedy or amusing fluff, which made these portions less enjoyable than they should have been, leading to them feeling especially wasteful.

In the end the writing manages to check all the boxes it needs to, but it doesn’t feel like it does anything well. It’s very clear what each character’s arc is, it’s foundation, and why it progressed the way it did. But at an emotional level nothing really had all that much impact. There are scenes that I can easily recognize are very well written in a vacuum, but in context the build up to them just doesn’t feel like it’s built up enough investment for them to hit as hard as they should. This is especially true for the ending. Things take a much more serious turn and magic takes a much more important role in the plot. The writing also becomes more focused on Hitomi and her character arc so it manages to do pretty well by her. However, the lead up to all this wasn’t strong enough to really support it, and thus it falls pretty flat. Ultimately, I wasn’t particularly satisfied or unsatisfied with it, it just felt kind of dull.

The art is a mixed bag. The art is fantastic when it comes to backgrounds, both the standard backgrounds and the more unique ones involving worlds inside paintings. However, the art and animation when it came to characters felt pretty weak, especially for such a character focused work. And that’s coming from someone who likes Fly’s art style. Furthermore, even when the art was great I felt that it spent far too much time focusing on just the art which contributed to the feeling of things moving too slowly and not progressing enough. The OP and ED were both pretty solid in terms of songs and visuals. The soundtrack was also pretty good and worked well with the tone and atmosphere.

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Mar 21, 2020

DenseMC

Not Recommended

Spoilers ahead. I wanted to watch something wholesome since I recently got back into anime. I had this as a recommendation but was left with a complete disappointment.

Let's start with the story. The story is non-existent. It's essentially about some teenagers in a club doing club things. Oh right, there is a mention of time-travel at the start but nothing really happens with the time-travelling aspect.

I mean, you can't really introduce your show by sending the main character back in time and then do nothing of it. What was the point exactly?

I won't call the story as story but rather as a concept ...

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