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Manga Adaptation of Naoko Yamada's The Colors Within Film to End in 4th Volume
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The story centers on Totsuko, a high school girl who can see the "colors" of the emotions in people's hearts. She attends a mission school in Nagasaki. In order to keep her friends and family from feeling dark feelings, she worries, reads situations, and even lies to smooth things over. At an antique bookshop in the corner of town, she meets a beautiful woman with an incredibly beautiful color and a music-loving boy trying to put together a band. The story follows these three sensitive people who gather together to play in a band.
Suzuki launched the adaptation in July 2024. Kadokawa shipped the third compiled volume on on February 10.
GKIDS released the film on Blu-ray Disc on May 27 and on digital platforms such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Fandango, Microsoft, and iNDEMAND on April 1.
The film opened in U.S. theaters in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub on January 24.
The Colors Within opened in Japan on August 30. The film was originally slated to open in fall 2023, but it was then slated to open in 2024. GKIDS acquired the film for North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. Anime Ltd. acquired the film for Europe. PLAION PICTURES is handling Italian- and German-speaking territories, and CHARADES is managing sales for the rest of Europe, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.
GKIDS, Annecy, and Variety magazine's Animation Is Film festival in Los Angeles hosted The Colors Within's North American premiere screening on the event's opening day on October 18. The film won the festival's Audience Award.
Source: Kadokawa
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