2013 Score 8.01 24 eps Red Complementary MAL ↗IMDb ↗ J.C.Staff Action Fantasy Sci-Fi

A Certain Scientific Railgun S

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The palette of *Railgun S* is a quiet subversion of action-anime convention: red-dominant but desaturated to near-gray, with an unusually strong Blue-Green counterweight. This is not the hot-blooded red of battle shonen; it is the clinical red of warning lights in a laboratory, always cut by the cool blue-green of Academy City's sterile corridors

Brightness Arc (episode progression)

Hue Distribution

Act Breakdown

Opening
0.540
Middle
0.600
Closing
0.549
Avg Brightness
0.603
Avg Saturation
0.171
Warmth
0.509

Color Palette

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3-Act Color Story

Opening
Middle
Closing
Color Twins
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