The Colors Within - Reviews

A vibrant and vividly self-assured anime coming-of-age story.

Yamada Naoko’s luminous anime about finding oneself.

Naoko Yamada finds the beauty of our secret selves in a wash of song, dance, and color.

...an empathetic coming-of-age tale that leverages animation firepower to eulogize connections born from music. The result is a tone piece that celebrates the little things that would otherwise go ignored...

...musical teen anime is a synaesthetic joy.

...a cine-synaesthetic coming-of-age anime that plays constantly with what is seen, heard and felt.

...a wonderful coming-of-ager set in a Catholic girls' boarding school.

It’s time in a bottle and a pleasure to soak up.

...a movie that truly understands the fear of loss and the internal strength required to truly yearn.