Mitsuboshi Colors
三ツ星カラーズ
(Anime + Manga)
Slice of life comedy by Katsuwo
Era: 2010s
Rating: B
Plot: Around Ueno Park, peace is protected by the Colors, three elementary school girls doing errands and having fun.
Length: 12 episodes
Thoughts: You know, I really should stop watching shows because YouTube suggests me a video that I find funny (you can guess which from the image on top). Then again, so far the record on "shows I've seen from random clips suggestions keeping me entertained" is pretty good, so why stop? There really isn't much to say here, we have the three girls, the shy leader and bit of a crybaby Yui, the energetic menace Sat-chan and Kotoha, always holding her blue 3DS and looking for to put her feet on someone's head, and the people whom they interact on their adventures, including Saito, the neighborhood cop who's a prime target of the girls antics, Oyaji, owner of the local general store and novelty glasses aficcionado who often gives the girls something to play with, Nokoka, an highschooler friend of the girls who runs their family's small bakery, which her older sister Momoka wants to turn into a onigiri shop and Sat-chan's mother, who sells fruit.
This is another of those shows you can just turn off your brain for a bit and have fun. Most of the jokes are based on the girls' vision of the world and the kind of bluntness only kids have, but it's never exactly mean or ill-oriented (Saito probably disagrees). Each episode has two or three different segments, as the manga chapters can be quite short, which keeps things going pleasantly without trying to drag much story. As for the manga, the adaptation covers pretty faithfully maybe one half of it, there's no order to the chapters as beside the introduction of characters like Colonel Monochrome right in the first chapter and the Sasaki sisters, there's no continuity. Both are equally fun, there's more adventures in the manga, but the VAs really did s good job capturing the characters, so just do both, it's not particularly lengthy. Could it have another 12 episodes to cover the rest of the stories? Yeah, Sat-chan imitating a pigeon, the girls and the Sasaki sisters trying to harmonize in the rain would probably be a blast seeing animated and with sound. Necessary? Probably not.
Recommended to: very chill times
Plus:
It's all-around cute fun
"it's fun to be stupid", words to live by, Sat-chan.
Minus:
It is what it is, don't expect anything incredibly memorable, this is just a very fun thing.
