2007 Score 8.35 13 eps Red-Orange Monochromatic MAL ↗IMDb ↗ Brain's Base Action Mystery Supernatural

Baccano!

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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Baccano!'s barcode is a study in controlled chaos. The palette, dominated by Red-Orange at 83%, is nonetheless choked with desaturated browns and taupes—the visual residue of 1930s grain and grime. Director Takahiro Omori and art director Yuji Ikeda didn't just set the series in Prohibition-era America; they soaked every frame in the sepia of yellowed newspaper columns and the rust of a blood-spattered railway. The arc-down structure (opening 0.51, middle 0.366, closing 0.447) maps perfectly onto the show's narrative architecture: the warm, inviting chaos of the first episode's

Brightness Arc (episode progression)

Hue Distribution

Act Breakdown

Opening
0.510
Middle
0.366
Closing
0.447
Avg Brightness
0.292
Avg Saturation
0.137
Warmth
0.538

Color Palette

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3-Act Color Story

Opening
Middle
Closing
Color Twins
Perceptually nearest palettes — measured in OKLab space, not RGB
Major S4
2008
Major S4
Red-Orange
Major S5
2009
Major S5
Red-Orange
Major S6
2010
Major S6
Red-Orange
Bunny Drop
2011
Bunny Drop
Red-Orange
Grand Blue Dreaming
2018
Grand Blue Dreaming
Green
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