Opus.COLORs

Google Glass: The BL anime. The whole premise of this anime was doomed from the start. Enter the 'Sci-Fi' of perception art - it's literally Google Glass (or the highly ridiculed and memed Apple Vision). This concept was invented by one of the MC's parents (Kazuya). Fast forward 10 years and now our MCs are going to school for this so-called sci-fi concept. How is this Sci-Fi if the concept is literally something we already have? In addition to that, the cast eventually gets divided into two groups, which is known as Graders and Artists. Anybody would be able to predict that this will end up creating some of the most mundane drama possible. The anime attempts to make the premise more interesting by shoving some more melodrama halfway in, but it falls completely flat and it even gives aneurysms. It's just painful to watch, and the fact that this is labeled Sci-Fi and not Boys Love is just completely false advertising. For an art-themed anime, the characters are as far away from art as possible. You have Kazuya, the boring genki guy destined for greatness. Then there's Jun. Your stereotypical childhood friend character. However... The anime completely shafts him despite being listed as a main character! Kyou holds back some trauma, which makes him potentially interesting, but he's so unlikable that it's hard to even pay attention to whatever possible character development he faces. If you thought the relationships in other drama-heavy anime such as Domestic Girlfriend and School Days is toxic, just wait until you see this. It's not even the kind of dumpster fire that people want to see. It's literally walking into skunk spray. Artist/grader relationships are so uninteresting yet so toxic. To top this all off, they start introducing a ton of side characters that are as monotone and monochrome as possible. Any sense of character development that might have happened is ruined by how flat and dull all the main and side characters are. So, that also brings art into the question; It has colors in its name, so it must be a visually appealing anime, right? WRONG Just look at Yuru Camp, another anime by the same studio. Literally a CGDCT about camping has more color and better visual quality than a visual arts anime with color in its name. Opus.COLORs uses some of the most monotonous color schemes out there. Every character looks like they're dulled out visually, and the same can be said about the backdrops. On top of the atrocious color scheme for what the anime's topic is, it also uses visually unappealing CGI. I'm generally not too critical of CGI in general, but having this on top of a story that's DOA and characters that make Nina Einstein and Hina Sato look well written, this just adds injury to insult. The CGI makes this already unbearable disaster of an anime literally unwatchable. Given that this is an art-based anime, one would be forgiven to expect good quality music, but remember: this is Opus.COLORs, not Nana. It's not Bocchi the Rock either. It's just a garbage seasonal with uninspired music too (okay, may be calling it garbage is topo generous). While the voice acting from the cast isn't that bad, any positive here is completely drowned by the amount of other things Opus.Colors does wrong. Do you enjoy watching paint dry? I mean, that's still technically art related because it involves paint. If you do enjoy watching paint dry, I have good news: this anime might just be for you. When your main cast is so boring and the anime fails to even make the viewer even want to know about the side characters, there's literally no enjoyment to be taken from this anime. it's the kind of anime you just watch while playing Minecraft or something while going autopilot with mining. Or, better yet,: let this anime run its runtime while reading some quality manga. I ended up doing both these things while trying to watch this anime. A closing note: Remember, this anime has colors in its name, yet it's outdone in color by a slow-paced CGDCT camping anime. This anime is one of the most soulless and painful anime I've ever had to sit through. I could have spent my time rewatching some actually good anime. I spent my time staying on top of this bullshit instead of Birdie Wing S2 all because I don't drop anime. When an anime is DOA with the story, there's not much that can be done. Just watch any other anime out there; this feels like they tried to string a whole bunch of bad MVs together. Opus.COLORs is the worst case scenario for colorblindness ever.

This is NOT BL. Not at all. Trust me. First impression, in my opinion the art style is unique. I LOVE IT! The idea is very fresh, I'm getting more and more interested. As long as I watch it, I really enjoy it. This anime is the best art anime I've ever known. What a beautiful anime. Besides the visual beauty of their artwork, it also presents a beautiful story and meaning of life as well -if you pay close attention to the story- You'll cry, what a perfect story-visual-song mix at the end of the episode! I'm looking forward to Season 2!! :)) I'm glad found Opus.COLORs! ❤️

Opus.COLORs is an original anime that wasn't popular to begin with. A terribly slow first episode alongside very weak production values didn't help it either. But hidden behind this awful first impression, there is actually a solid and emotional story. It has a little bit of everything: Mystery, Drama, (BL) Romance and even short insert songs along the "Perception Art" pieces shown. The story starts of with the Staircaster competition. Six Teams, each consisting of an elite "Artist" and "Grader" from Eisen High School, enter an art contest for the best "Perception Art". Perception Art is essentially a drawing in a VR space, but very advanced, including even sounds and smells. These are created by the "Artists", then published and advertised by the responsible "Grader". Alongside establishing these premises, the contest is mostly about introducing the rather large supporting cast of this show and only lasts 3 episodes. Afterwards, the main character Yamanashi Kazuya, who has the special ability to experience feelings from the artist of a Perception Art piece, is asked to help the school staff find the author of an unauthorized Perception Art drawn on school grounds. Realizing this "Scribble" might be connected to an accident he was in 10 years prior to the story, he sets out to find it's creator. On this journey, there is a lot of content on the other characters introduced in the Staircaster competition, who join Kazuya's quest one by one. This eventually develops into a very emotional mystery drama, as Kazuya gets closer to the awnsers of his questions. The relationships between the characters, alongside the progression of the main characters, is probably the strongest point of the show. And even though the supporting cast is a bit oversized, the characters did get their time to shine in their own sidestories. The whole concept of how Perception Art's standing among traditional art and the importance of both Artists and Graders for the success of this art form is also an important and intriguing part of the show. Personally, I'd say this show really grew onto me. And if you are interested in an emotional story in the world of Sci-fi Art and it's hardhips, or just looking for some Boys' Love in the current drought of that genre, Opus.COLORs might be for you.

Opus.COLORs starts out less than promising with murky direction and unimpressive animation. The setting is poorly explained, centered around an original form of "perception art" involving some element of VR, but how the mechanics work is vague to the point of obtrusiveness. We know that the art process is inherently collaborative, needing both the efforts of an artist and what the show refers to as a grader, who appears to take on some form of editorial role. It's unclear how the grader actually contribute to a project beyond things like basic marketing or choosing what frame to put a painting in, which all seem like tasks an artist could easily do alone. Moreover, the perception art obsession the world has is relatively new. Not a decade ago, the public were up in arms protesting over its growing popularity. How could something as inconsequential as an art medium inspire such fervor? Beyond that, the show seems to function like an average insecure gacha adaptation, featuring a bloated cast size and surface level character exploration in an attempt to please every fan. The first half of the show are focus episodes rotating between new characters learning how to better understand each other in mundane, predictable ways. The show is dogged by a sense of soullessness, that a committee looked at what character dynamics were popular out in the joseimuke space and copied them down while ignoring all context. While a few of the musical numbers at the end of most episodes are more visually creative than others, they all feel shoehorned in yet still artificially short. It's as if they were the cutting room floor scraps of when the staff were still working on Starmyu and hey, they might as well go into this project too. Eventually though, the show does find its footing, and that footing is, no joke, morphing the narrative into the mold of a murder mystery. The show starts with speedrunning our protagonist's tragic backstory, orphaned as a child after losing his parents in a traffic accident, evoking feelings of sympathy and pity with all the subtlety of a hackneyed light novel. But about halfway through the show, we go back to that accident in a flashback episode, and we get to see the parents seemingly fine and dandy walking out of the crashed car. So what happened? How did they die? The element of intrigue builds somewhat slowly, initially relying on its audience to doubt what is shown to them for any sense of momentum, until it intensifies enough to become the centerpiece of the narrative. The VR art gimmick of the show that seemed largely pointless suddenly takes on a more interesting, even conspiratorial angle on if people really saw what they thought they saw. The resolution doesn't quite live up to its potential and the art worldbuilding never escapes feeling lacking, but the emotional core in the final product works fine enough. The last few episodes give the show some much needed focus, exploring themes of loss, survivor's guilt, and learning to cherish what you still have. Or to be blunt, it's basically a BL melodrama that's too cowardly to commit to being BL, but it's carried by the voice actors doing as decent job as they could working with the material they're given. Opus.COLORs is inarguably a technical mess, but it does something unique and weird enough to stand out among the mass production of anime that gets pumped out these days. It may not be what you could call good by any conventional means, but I can't say I wasn't ultimately entertained.

Opus.COLORs was an Ok anime at best, they put the whole devolepment in only 2 characters, and say "fuck it" for the rest of the cast. The only thing saving this anime of beign just bad, its the super emotional final. When I watched episode 12 I was SOBBING. This is so good but I am so sad that this anime is so mid, no world construction or side characters devolpment. Still pretty OK. If the ending was a LITTLE worse it would be a 5/10 easily. I'm glad they knew what they were doing, they knew really well their whole point was only 2 characters and they did it REALLY WELL, side characters are only supports, they dont even have a history by themselfs.

Let me sum Opus.Colors up in 1 word: crap. There ya' go. A one word review the sums it up. Did you miss it? Let me review it again. Crap. Opus.Color is about, um, damn I have no clue what it was supposed to be. A coming of age story? Nope. A story of true friendship? Nah not in the way the ML treated his truest friend. Art? eeehhh debatable. Hot guys wandering around in uniform? That! Well, almost. With better animation they would have been oh so much sweeter. With art being a subplot or rather a plot device and the name Opus.Crap.. oops typo... Opus.Colors one might at least expect beauty. But the animation was flat. Yes, I know it's 2D, but it was flatter like -2D. Is there such a thing as 1D because if so, that's it. Anytime someone like myself that is not a fan of CG animation was praying for the CG to come, you know the animation is humdrum. The colors were stale and in some cases monochrome. Just really boring. Speaking of boring. The seiyuu's seemed bored. I am all too familiar with many of the voices and their work. And they were dialing it in. This was a paycheck. Not anything for them to take pride in or be excited about. It came across in most of their voices. If they didn't care about their characters, then why should we?: The reason I believe the voice acting was lacking is because the writing and direction were poor. There was a lack of focus and direction that comes across in the anime. Had the storytelling been better than the uninteresting animation would not have been as noticeable or important. The male lead was a whiny brat that turned his back on his one true friend to chase after an old "friend" that hadn't spoken to him in 10 years and wanted nothing to do with him. I'm phooking phenomenal! How dare you not be my friend! I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the one element I enjoyed. The only exceptions to the monotony were the stills of the character art. Many were quite stunning compared to the rest of anime. If you placed them in an anime like Blue Period for instance, they may not stand out as much., but would stand out nonetheless. Still, after seeing the Perception Art in the first episode I was anxious to experience more of it. The art came to life with separate animation (like a video) replete with a song sung by the associated actors. Admittedly, I am a huge NON-FAN of the singing seiyuu. I often say if I want musical animation, I'll go to Disney. An anime about music? Fine. Sing away. But I hate, when in an anime about badminton let's say, they just break into song. Why are you singing? What's going on right now? Just hit the damn shuttle cock!! That's how I felt about the music in O.C. It was unnecessary and served no purpose. The time spent on music could have been used for character and/or story development, of which there was none. The creators of Opus.Colors seemed to stop short on every aspect of this anime. They stopped short of making it bright and attractive. They stopped short of making the lead characters engaging. They stopped short of admitting it's BL, but maybe I'm wrong. Do teen boys enjoy holding hands nowadays? They stopped short of making it good.