Line #31 Manga/MitsuboshiColors


1	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/89984.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:225:The Colors]]
3	A SliceOfLife comedy manga from Creator/{{Katsuwo}}.
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5	In a small corner of Tokyo, three elementary girls protect their town. Doing good and enforcing rule against the various dangers that befall it. These three girls are the Colors, fearless guardians of Ueno Park!
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7	...Or so they say. In reality, meek Yui Akamatsu, ever exuberant Sat-Chan and enigmatic Kotoha are three friends who spend their days having fun around town. Whether going to the lake, visiting a zoo, chatting with their CoolOldGuy friend or making life Hell for the surly local cop.
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9	Was made into an anime for the Winter 2018 season. It is currently licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks and can be currently legally viewed on Crunchyroll. An English dub was announced in April 2019.
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12	! Tropes Present in this work:
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14	* AdaptationExpansion: The zoo and strawberry-selling chapters.
15	* AgeInappropriateDress: In the Colors' first training session (which is simply a game of Hide and Seek) Yui is declared "it" and made search for her friends while wearing a rather skimpy midriff-baring outfit for an underage girl, basically a kid-sized version of [[Anime/UruseiYatsura Lum Invader’s]] outfit.
16	* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Colonel Monochrome is a cat that can take pictures with a camera and knows the right time to press the shutter button. Nobody cares.
17	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: On their way to a help request from the croquette shop lady, they end up playing around a jungle gym and forgetting the call.
18	* BackForTheFinale: Many secondary characters from previous skits can be found attending the "flower-viewing" festival in the final episode.
19	* BlandNameProduct: Starbachos Coffee.
20	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Sat-chan is a natural boke, but Yui is supposedly tasked with being the straight-man of the trio. [[EpicFail She fails spectacularly]].
21	* BrattyHalfPint: The three girls might be this at different levels, but Sat-chan is the absolute queen of troublemaking in her class.
22	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The preview "meetings" after each episode.
23	* BrutalHonesty:
24	** Sat-Chan has exactly zero filter with her words, saying whatever she thinks, no matter how rude.
25	** [[GamerChick Kotoha]] tends to have a very hard time dealing with Yui telling her that she's terrible at playing video games.
26	*** Sat-chan on the contrary, doesn't care as much when Yui calls her "normal" every time she asks her if she looks cute.
27	* ButtMonkey: According to Reddit, the most fitting description of officer Saito is "Police Squidward".
28	** Nonoka also gets a fair share of abuse from the titular trio. As well as from her older sister.
29	** Each of the main character gets a few moments too. Yui when she's made to seek her friends while wearing a [[AgeInappropriateDress rather skimpy outfit]]. Sat-chan gets her head stepped on by Kotoha in the very first episode. Kotoha is told by Yui that she sucks at video games.
30	* CallingYourAttacks: Yui Kick! Pocket Tissue Attack! [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Extra Virgin Oil!]]
31	* CatchPhrase: Kotoha's "Game clear!" when she "solves" a "mystery".
32	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Many of their "missions" start from the girls (even the somewhat WiseBeyondHerYears Kotoha) naively misinterpreting something.
33	* ColourCodedCharacters: Yui wears red, Sat-chan usually wears yellow, and Kotoha wears blue.
34	* ColorfulThemeNaming: Yui's family name is '''Aka'''matsu (red), Sat-chan's is '''Ki'''se (yellow), and Kotoha's is '''Ao'''yama (blue). Their mascot, a panda-colored cat, is called "Colonel Monochrome".
35	* CoolBigSis: Not Nonoka but her older sister Momoka. She quickly gets on the Colors good side because her onigiri tastes so much better than Nonoka's bread.
36	* CoolOldGuy: Pops, the owner of a local general store.
37	* CoolShades: Like Kotoha's hats, Pops has an endless collection of novelty sunglasses he's never seen without.
38	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene where the trio takes a picture with the shop vendor who gave them leftover candy looks eerily akin to how mafia collects ransom from various business. Except it's funnier.
39	* DontTryThisAtHome: In one episode, Kotoha [[spoiler:climbs the sign of the Ameyoko shopping district (a real-life location)]] then plays with the trope by stating in the preview that the children watching aren't brave enough to imitate her.
40	** In the home video segment of the finale, Kotoha [[spoiler:steals Saito's bike]], meanwhile the police box phone rings and Sat-chan [[spoiler:trolls the caller who tries to report a missing object.]] The warning is added as a title by Pops, who edited the video.
41	* {{Expy}}: The Chu-chu Cabrilla mascot is an obvious take on the Chupacabra.
42	* FeigningIntelligence: Kotoha tries acting WiseBeyondTheirYears and rather sadistic to seem more intelligent. But she's just as dopey as the other two.
43	* FestivalEpisode: The summer festival in episode 4 and the cherry blossom festival in the finale.
44	* FreeRangeChildren: The girls enjoy an unusual freedom for their age, to the point of reaching up to Akihabara playing hide-and-seek. They have a 5pm curfew, though.
45	* GamerChick: Kotoha is frequently seen playing a UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS {{expy}}. Ironically enough, she's ''terrible'' at video games.
46	* GirlsWithMoustaches: Behold Yui wearing the Dignity Moustache and laying truth on Kotoha (with DramaticThunder and all) in the "weakness discovery" episode.
47	* GoToSleepEnding: Happens at the GrandFinale of the anime. During the final skit in the episode (after the credits roll), the gang brings a futon and set it in the middle of the park in order to relax and do surveillance. [[spoiler: In the end though, they end up falling asleep.]]
48	* GroinAttack: After catching a rocket launched from a toy rocket launcher by Saito, Sat-chan throws it back at him, hitting him right in the family jewels.
49	* InnocentlyInsensitive: The Colors often do and say stuff that comes off as downright insulting at times because they're still too young to read the atmosphere properly. Sat-chan is escpecially good at this.
50	* InvisibleParents: Only Sacchan's mom makes an appearance. So far, there's nothing to know about the families of Yui and Kotoha.
51	* {{Joshikousei}}: Nonoka appears most of the time wearing her sailor fuku (even at the bakery).
52	* LamePunReaction: Averted with Kotoha, who can't resist giggling to Sacchan's [[PungeonMaster wordplay repertory]]. Played straight with Yui when she tries to repeat Sacchan's puns.
53	* TheLeader: Yui is this in title, anyway. Doesn't stop her from being a crybaby and the group ButtMonkey.
54	* NeverBareheaded: Kotoha is never seen without her [[UnlimitedWardrobe rather numerous]] collection of hats on her dome.
55	* OnlySaneMan: Yui is often this to Kotoha and Sat-chan, but she's [[ExtremeDoormat too spineless]] to exert it in full.
56	* ParentalAbandonment: This seems to be the case with [[spoiler:Satchan's dad (or maybe he died, although it sounds less fitting for this manga.)]]
57	* ProductPlacement: The blurry imported Philippine products in Episode 3.
58	* PuniPlush: As expected for a slice-of-life series about pre-teen girls.
59	* RealPlaceBackground: Everything happens in and around the Ueno Park area in Tokyo, and the anime is often praised for its [[SceneryPorn lush backgrounds]].
60	* ShoutOut: The reason Colors go to the museum to search for a new member of their group is because Sat-chan watched a film where [[Film/NightAtTheMuseum the exhibits come to life at night.]]
61	* SliceOfLife
62	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sat-chan or Sacchan? Saito or Saitou?
63	* SugarBowl: The setting is an optimistic version of Tokyo where everyone, including strangers, plays along and cooperates with the girls (except Saito).
64	* SuperSentaiStance: The Colors have one.
65	* ToiletHumor: Sat-Chan has a fascination with poop, [[OnceAnEpisode mentioning it in every episode]] and even getting philosophical about it.
66	* TomatoInTheMirror: The Colors sneak in alleys with "no trespassing" signs in order to investigate what's being hidden there. After not finding anything and being chased a couple of times, the girls discover that [[spoiler:the floor of the closed areas was covered in wet paint, and they've been leaving footprints everywhere]].
67	* UnlimitedWardrobe: The girls wear different outfits every episode.
68	* VillainyFreeVillain: The girls see Saito as their ultimate enemy, while he's just a policeman who wants a little peace (no excuse for his JerkAss moments, though).
69	* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing:
70	** By misunderstanding their pal Nonoka, a plan for cleaning the infamously dirty Shinobazuno pond escalates to a decision of [[WellIntentionedExtremist exterminating humanity]] to protect nature. Yui then realises that it's OK to them that the pond is polluted, so the girls give up the mission... and thus, mankind (and the peace of the town) is saved again.
71	** In a later episode, they manage to convince Nonoka of giving them raffle tickets for ''not helping her'' in her bread shop.

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