Anime: Colorful

There are many reasons why a piece of media is forgotten to the sands of time. Sometimes it's because something isn't very good, sometimes it's because it was released at a time that prevented it from getting a better foothold. In Colorful's case, it's because it just wasn't very memorable.

So what's the plot for this series? It doesn't have one! Based on a manga series, Colorful is a series that focuses on the misadventures of men staring, peeking, glancing, looking, and glaring at women and their efforts to get that extra eyeful of harmlessly exposed panties, bras, and occasional cleavage and the outrageous consequences of their actions.

It's more like a sketch show with a few re-occurring characters and exactly one sketch rather than an ongoing series, which should be pretty obvious with it's tagline "Roses are red. Violets are blue. This show's about panties."

Some series have a character that's a pervert for comedic relief, or even have it as the main focus, but Colorful distills the perverted comical relief down into 96 minutes, consisting of 16 short 6 minute episodes. The whole thing pretty much feels like a montage of the slapstick pervert characters from a bunch of other longer running series. By the end of the series it definitely feels a little long in the tooth, and it doesn't have the benefit of being broken up by an actual story or other events going on. It's ecchi comedy distilled into the length of a feature film.

I'd complain that a series with this little substance got made, but there have been series out there with somehow even less substance. And at least Colorful doesn't pretend that it's something that it's not. If anything, I can give this series credit for at least being interesting with it's animation and art style, often being mildly creative with the way it looks.

Coloful has been described as a very love it or hate it show, seemingly being described as "wildly funny" or "tasteless and depraved", and it's easy to see why. It's very unashamed of what it is, a series of vulgar panty jokes one after another with very little breathing room. I'm pretty sure there is an audience out there for something like this, but it would be an incredibly niche one at that.

Sketches which are best described by SouthPark meets Benny Hill: terribly perverted humor with flat animations.

The animation varies from super shitty to pretty cool. At times, the animation looks as if the characters come straight from Southpark, and other times the characters are high quality anime characters again, depending on the mood of the animators.
The episodes of around 5 minutes are made up of sketches which each tell a seperate story, but these sketches are short and are super-exaggerated. The sketches are both animated as weird, and they often put in parts of cartoons, live-action movies, 3-D models, or just colorful rubbish to fill the rest of the show. But most of all it looks like some Benny Hill-type has gotten a hold of LSD and started hallucinating and put in a lot of colors and random scenes which don't have anything to do with the series/story itself.
Don't get me wrong - it probably will win the most creative anime of the year and also the originality prize, but that doesn't mean that it also looks good.

The sound is done well. Although the OP-song is clearly rubbish, it's not meant to be good - only weird and hopefully funny (which it isn't either, imo) to fit the series. The voices sound as if the animationcrew spoke them, which gives a feeling of misplacedness.
But although the voices, songs and BGM are terrible, it fits the series for its randomness.
The music is done really well. They come up with the most wacky songs and BGM in order to exaggerate the sounds and scenes even more. So even if the sounds, songs and BGM don't make any sense, they still fit the series. Unfortunately, it's not enjoyable.
The voices are often degenerated from normal voices to highspeed pitched voices for random reasons I don't understand. Again, although it fits the series, it's not enjoyable.

The story isn't much of a story. It's a collection of random scenes which have only 1 thing in common: pantsu. All scenes are meant to show women's underwear and they try to make funny sketches of them which are probably only enjoyable by people who are just as perverted as the makers of this show, which might be inspired by Benny Hill.
All stories are sketches and they don't make any sense plotwise or storywise. They just kick in, show some pantsu and then it's time for the next scene/sketch. Zapping every 10 seconds when watching TV probably makes more sense than watching Colorful.

Since they are all just random scenes which don't have any story, the characters are also just completely random. Some of the characters come back after a few episodes, but none of them have any use for a story. Instead, they just use them for one or two gags and then move on to another scene. Resulting in characters you don't even know the name of and they don't even need a name since none of the characters are important - except for Yamamoto, who seems to be the idol of this series - and has probably 5 lines of text throughout the entire series. But even she isn't important, since the only thing they show are her breasts and such.

I can't imagine this having any value. The only reason for rewatching this bunch of random crap is because you either like watching Benny Hill-kind of comedy, where people just live to view a woman's pantsu and have no further meaning in life, or you didn't understand the series the first time and wants to know what it was about (poor you).
I didn't enjoy this series at all. Most of the time I was just stunned, dumbstruck because of the complete randomness this series showed me without any reason.
Like I said before, zapping every 10 seconds on TV might be more worthwhile than watching Colorful.

YAMOTO! This is sure one of the weirdest animes i've ever seen. As described it's main story is about men watching pantsu and stalking women.

Well I guess every men has a bit of those ones which are shown in this anime. For me, Colorful, is overdrawing the thoughts every men maybe has when he sees sexy ladies doing sports with bouncy bouncy boobies or when you get to see them in nice short skirts *grin*

Ah well, it's a good timekiller or anime you can watch before you go to bed. No must see...

Very weird and new wave type of anime consisting only of very short scene, mostly dealing with men hunting for pantsu shots.

Few scenes are funny, most of them just weird. It is really like an animated comic strip from someone on crack.

As the episodes are so short you can check it out yourself but I myself did not really like it very much as there is not much going on for it.