2020 Score 8.37 13 eps Red-Orange Monochromatic MAL ↗IMDb ↗ Production I.G Sports

Haikyu!! To the Top

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 is a dusty, sun-baked Red-Orange, but the saturation is so low it barely registers as color at all — this is volleyball played in the mud, not the polished shine of a sports highlight reel. Production I.G and director Masako Satō understand that *Haikyu!! To the Top* is about grind, not glory, and the barcode reflects that. The bright opening arc is a bait-and-switch: the first act lands at a muted 0.484 brightness, then actually *brightens* through the middle stretch to 0.572 before dimming again. That middle act flare comes during the Inarizaki match, when the screen fills with the pale beige of a gymnasium under fluorescent lights and the washed-out whites of uniforms — a visual equivalent of exhaustion setting in. The Red-Orange dominance (68%) isn't passion or fire; it's the color of clay courts, of sweat-stained jerseys, of the late-afternoon light that bleaches everything into a single exhausted tone. This is a show that refuses the dramatic chiaroscuro of tournament anime, preferring the flat, truthful light of a long practice session. Nobody's standing in a spotlight here.

Brightness Arc (episode progression)

Hue Distribution

Act Breakdown

Opening
0.484
Middle
0.572
Closing
0.512
Avg Brightness
0.562
Avg Saturation
0.270
Warmth
0.577

Color Palette

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3-Act Color Story

Opening
Middle
Closing
Color Twins
Perceptually nearest palettes — measured in OKLab space, not RGB
Haikyu!!
2014
Haikyu!!
Red-Orange
Haikyu!! 3rd Season
2016
Haikyu!! 3rd Season
Red-Orange
Haikyu!! To the Top 2nd-cour
2020
Haikyu!! To the Top 2nd-cour
Red-Orange
Barakamon
2014
Barakamon
Red-Orange
Non Non Biyori
2013
Non Non Biyori
Red
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