2005 Score 7.98 24 eps Red-Orange Complementary MAL ↗IMDb ↗ J.C.Staff Comedy Drama Romance

Honey and Clover

Pixel Slice — 1px center crop per frame
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Smooth Average — mean color per frame
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Rank Mosaic — columns sorted by luminance
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Circle / Radial — polar transform
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Edit Pace — frame-to-frame color delta (bright = fast cuts)
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Color Temperature — warm (gold) vs cool (teal) per frame
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Frame Density Comparison — every 2nd vs every 4th frame
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Slice · 30s
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The palette reads like leftover watercolor washes—muted, warm, almost chalky, with a Red-Orange dominance that never saturates beyond 0.179. This is the visual signature of J.C. Staff's *Honey and Clover*, a show that refuses the vivid contrasts of its shoujo contemporaries. Director Kenichi Kasai and art director Junichi Higashi built a Tokyo of beige

Brightness Arc (episode progression)

Hue Distribution

Act Breakdown

Opening
0.687
Middle
0.648
Closing
0.738
Avg Brightness
0.651
Avg Saturation
0.179
Warmth
0.548

Color Palette

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3-Act Color Story

Opening
Middle
Closing
Color Twins
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