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"The Colors Within", the new movie by Naoko Yamada (K-ON!, Heike Story, Silent Voice) & Science Saru studio. Character designs : Takashi Kojima. Original designs: Daisuke Richard.

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Me on my way home after watching 'The Colors Within'

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Heike Monogatari | 平家物語 (2021) dir. Naoko Yamada

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The Colors Within (2024) dir. Naoko Yamada

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The Yuzuki Team, in their casual outfits and Human forms!

(MagiMonster forms will be drawn soon... I promise...)

From left to right:

Yuzuki Yukimura, Tsukumogami MagiMon, heir of the Yukimura clan, wielder of the contract-bound blade Onino. Quiet at a first glance, she is extremely passionate about Youkai and aims to learn more about them. She is the core heart of the team that cements the five girls together.

Naoko Yamada, Bakeneko MagiMon, the "Calico Combatant". A friendly girl who cares too much about others. She values friendship a lot and claims to dislike competition while enjoying a competitive spirit. Her mother and her two sisters are also MagiMonsters.

Hikaru Katsushika, Chouchin-Obake MagiMon, heir to the Katsushika Industries corporations. She comes from a wealthy family, but she harbors a visceral hatred to everything surrounding her social class. She's the designated leader of operations and treasurer of the Team. She looks constantly angry at all times, but she is a very kind soul so long as you do not anger her... And she has a very short fuse.

Tsubame Fujimaru, Nukekubi MagiMonster. She doesn't like talking and she doesn't want to befriend anyone. So, there's not much known about her. One thing is apparent: she is strongly motivated by her sense of justice and will always be there to save people... To the point of self-destruction. She was reluctant to join the team, but conceded in the end due to feeling like she owes a debt to them.

Yuuka Morishita, Furutsubaki no Rei MagiMonster, "Lady Camellia". She seems dainty and polite, but there is a sadistic and ultraviolent nature underneath that facade. She is obsessed by the urban legend of Masked Hunter and claims he has "saved her life". She accepted to join the team under the condition of toning down her violence as a MagiMonster. She considers owing a lot to Yuzuki after she helped her in battle when she used to go solo.

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The Colors Within English Trailer

Totsuko has the ability to see others "colors." Her classmate Kimi gives off the most beautiful color. Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and quiet music enthusiast Rui, even though Totsuko does not play an instrument. Their practices bring them closer together.

The Colors Within is directed by Naoko Yamada from a screenplay by Reiko Yoshida. Music is by Kensuke Ushio. Animation is from Science SARU.

The Colors Within is coming to North American theaters on January 24, 2025.

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Favorite Japanese anime movie directors/animators currently:

Masaaki Yuasa

Makoto Shinkai

Mamoru Hosoda

Naoko Yamada

Tomohisa Taguchi

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Bungou Stray Dogs: New Gen Official Art!

Naoko Yamada, director of "A Silent Voice". She is a character featured in BSD: New Gen, her movie has brought many to tears and opened our eyes to amazing storytelling. Turning her movie into a character has been a fun yet difficult process. Hopefully, my interpretation of this movie can bring to life a character that everyone can enjoy!

Chapters 1 and 2 of BSD: New Gen coming soon- February 14! Check my earlier post for more details. https://www.tumblr.com/mangocatofficial/773151233486864384/new-bsd-fanfic-coming-out-soon?source=share

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naoko yamada ending the film on a shot of totsuko and kimi’s hands as totsuko pulls kimi towards her is the spiritual successor to nozomi turning away from the camera and towards mizore and saying something we can’t hear as mizore’s eyes light up……. she’s so insane for all this

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liz and the blue bird (2018)

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Queerness and the Power of “Subtext” in Sound! Euphonium & Liz and the Blue Bird

Sound! Euphonium drew an audience of sapphic women due to the heavily implied romantic relationship between its two leads, Kumiko and Reina, but the show’s endgame saw them drifting apart as Reina confesses her love to an older male teacher and Kumiko becomes dedicated to her upperclassman friend Asuka.

The subtext between the characters has been enough for a small fandom to sustain itself for years, but the actual show ultimately failed to deliver. Years later, however, the spin-off film Liz and the Blue Bird, centered around side characters Nozomi and Mizore, provides audiences with the explicit queer representation many Euphonium viewers found themselves lacking.

Sound! Euphonium premiered in April 2015. Produced by Kyoto Animation, it exploded in popularity after a ship between the two female leads garnered attention online. The series is told through the eyes of Kumiko Oumae. A somewhat directionless young woman when we meet her, she is haunted by the final competition of her middle school band, when she unwittingly insulted a fellow classmate. The series follows her joining the newly rejuvenated concert band at her new high school and rekindling a connection with Reina Kousaka, the girl she drove to tears in middle school.

Even before any of their romantically coded interactions in the show itself, “Tutti!”, the ending theme for Euphonium’s first season, features a shot of Kumiko and Reina standing in a field, backs to each other, as a long red thread connects them. It’s the “red string of fate,” one of the most instantly recognized symbols of destined lovers.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)

Director: Naoko Yamada

Cinematographer: Kazuya Takao