Are there any other light/color tropes that can be given besides Chiaroscuro? This series puts a ton of effort into both light and dark. And it has a great deal of deliberate contrast, with some portions being average, while a lot of portions are either dark with some contrasting light or very bright and/or pastel colored, depending on the characters present and the situation being shown.
This stands out particularly well in the music video made for the opening theme, "Answer". Whenever it's just Rei, his colors range from complete black and white to extremely muted. Then when the Kawamoto sisters appear, especially Hina, it gets very bright and warm. Then it goes back to Rei alone and dark again. And then when he's walking with Hina it almost looks like they're strolling through a prismatic river of rainbow fire.
The anime is much longer so naturally it doesn't stand out as much all the time, but the multiple different styles and the deliberate use of vast contrasts between them deserves mention. It's almost like a 4-dimensional Chiaroscuro, expanding this play on light and dark across time.
Are there any other light/color tropes that can be given besides Chiaroscuro? This series puts a ton of effort into both light and dark. And it has a great deal of deliberate contrast, with some portions being average, while a lot of portions are either dark with some contrasting light or very bright and/or pastel colored, depending on the characters present and the situation being shown.
This stands out particularly well in the music video made for the opening theme, "Answer". Whenever it's just Rei, his colors range from complete black and white to extremely muted. Then when the Kawamoto sisters appear, especially Hina, it gets very bright and warm. Then it goes back to Rei alone and dark again. And then when he's walking with Hina it almost looks like they're strolling through a prismatic river of rainbow fire.
The anime is much longer so naturally it doesn't stand out as much all the time, but the multiple different styles and the deliberate use of vast contrasts between them deserves mention. It's almost like a 4-dimensional Chiaroscuro, expanding this play on light and dark across time.
Edited by Lyner