Imagine living and feeling art with all of your senses instead of just seeing it. That sounds like a wild concept, right? Since the real world has a long way to go before making this idea a reality, Opus Colors anime is here to give you a glimpse.
The story shows us the potential of digital art in a coming-of-age story of high school boys trying to mend broken bonds.
According to its official website, the original anime ‘Opus Colors’ is slated for a spring 2023 debut. The announcement was accompanied by a beautiful key visual featuring the protagonists, Kazuya Yamanashi and Kyo Takise, in the spotlight.
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The premise is based on this newly developed concept called ‘Perception Art,’ a form of digital art that affects a person’s senses of touch, smell, sight, and hearing. As revealed in the official synopsis, Perception Art has become integrated into everyday life in the last ten years, and it takes a team of an artist and a grader to create it.
Kazuya Yamanashi is the son of famous artists and creators of Perception Art. He has enrolled in the prestigious arts institution Eisen High School with his childhood friend Jun Tsuzuki, with dreams of becoming an artist.
However, Kazuya is at Eisen with another motive: to mend a broken friendship with Kyo Takise. Son of a grader, Kyo was a childhood buddy of Kazuya and Jun but started avoiding them due to a certain incident.
In addition, the franchise has also revealed the cast members for the anime, and they’re as follows:
| Character | Cast | Other Works |
| Kazuya Yamanashi | Yūma Uchida | Kyo Soma (Fruits Basket) |
| Kyo Takise | Ryota Ohsaka | Marco Bodt (Attack on Titan) |
| Jun Tsuzuki | Natsuki Hanae | Tanjirō Kamado (Demon Slayer) |
| Michitaka Nanba | Toshiyuki Toyonaga | Junichirō Tanizaki (Bungo Stray Dogs) |
| Iori Haijima | Yuichiro Umehara | Mars (Black Clover) |
| Takumi Yura | Nobunaga Shimazaki | Mahito (Jujutsu Kaisen) |
| Anju Ikaruga | Taku Yashiro | Hirokazu Arai (Chainsaw Man) |
| Chiharu Sakaki | Makoto Furukawa | Saitama (One Punch Man) |
| Kaede Mikuriya | Yoshiki Nakajima | Yō Uei (Dr. Stone) |
| Mashu Kirinoe | Ryōta Suzuki | Yū Ishigami (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) |
| Yuichi Shido | Shugo Nakamura | Gin Gagamaru (BLUELOCK) |
| Kohei Tose | Daiki Yamashita | Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia) |
| Daiki Yura | Nobuhiko Okamoto | Karma Akabane (Assassination Classroom) |
| Rio Nakashizu | Katsuyuki Konishi | Laxus Dreyar (Fairy Tail) |
| Makoto Yanagi | Daisuke Ono | Jotaro Kujo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) |
| Naoki Yamanashi | Jun Fukuyama | King (The Seven Deadly Sins) |
| Akari Yamanashi | Kaori Nazuka | Nunnally vi Britannia (Code Geass) |
| Togo Takise | Kousuke Toriumi | Kiba Inuzuka (Naruto Shippūden) |
Moreover, the franchise has revealed that the entire staff of the STARMYU anime series is reuniting to produce Opus Colors. Rin Hinata is credited as the original creator, while Shunsuke Tada will direct the anime at Magic Capsule.
With such an extraordinary cast and staff, the show has exceeded our expectations.
About Opus Colors
Opus Colors is an original anime created by Rin Hinata. It features the concept of Perception Art, a type of digital art that affects a person’s senses of sight, smell, touch, and hearing. The art requires a team of two, an artist and a grader, to create and has developed a lot in ten years.
The story will follow Kazuya Yamanashi, son of famous artists who also founded Perception Art; and Kyo Takise, whose father is a grader and also a founder of Perception Art.
Kyo is Kazuya’s childhood friend but avoids him due to a certain incident while the latter enrolls in Eisen High School, a prestigious art institution to mend the broken bond while aspiring to become a Perception Artist himself.
Source: Official Website
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