The Delicate Japanese animated The Colors Within is very interested in the passage of adolescence and the emotions felt.
Totsuko (Sayu Suzukawa voice in the original Japanese version) attended a Catholic school for young girls. The teenager has synesthesia, that is to say that she can associate the people she meets in colors. So when she sees Kimi (voice of Akari Takaishi), she is fascinated by her color … and by her person. When Kimi stops going to school, Totsuko goes to research and becomes, very accidentally, a member of a music group with two other young people.
The colors, sometimes pastel, sometimes more radiant, are used by the director, Naoko Yamada, to add a subtext to the main plot, that of the expression of his feelings by Totsuko.
We also like the delicacy of the links between the composition of songs (even if the words of the songs of adolescents, translated into subtitles, can sometimes lend to smile) and spirituality, The Colors Within opening up to a prayer from Totsuko. We also find in the feature film the style of animés whose sweetness sometimes makes one think of watercolor.
-In addition, through the questions of the teenager, her way of perceiving others and her journey through her emotions, this The Colors Within will reflect on young and old.
Note: 3.5 out of 5
The Colors Within Takes the poster in original version subtitled in several cinemas in the province.
