Color Analysis · 1996 – 2025

The Color Archive
of Anime

267 barcode portraits — every top-rated anime from 1996 to 2025, distilled into light, color, and time.

267
Barcodes
30
Years
0.446
Global Avg Brightness
82%
Warm-Hue Dominant
Featured Barcodes
Landmark titles across the archive — click any for full color analysis.
Cowboy Bebop
1998
Cowboy Bebop
Score 8.75 · flat
Red
Serial Experiments Lain
1998
Serial Experiments Lain
Score 8.1 · bright ending
Blue-Green
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Score 9.09 · dark opening
Blue-Green
Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
2011
Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
Score 8.47 · flat
Red-Orange
Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2
2019
Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2
Score 9.05 · bright opening
Red-Orange
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
2019
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Score 8.4 · dark ending
Green
Vinland Saga
2019
Vinland Saga
Score 8.78 · flat
Red
Extremes
The brightest, darkest, and most saturated anime in the dataset.
Thirty Years on a Single Axis
Average brightness as bar height, dominant hue as color. The Dark Nineties, the digital peak of the late 2000s, and the prestige-dark renaissance after 2020 all read at a glance.
TimelineBar height = average brightness · Color = dominant hue