Every joke is a punchline before you can brace for it. Colorful doesn't pause to explain what it's doing or apologize for the premise, it just barrels forward with surreal escalation, each segment weirder and hornier than the last, treating anime's own obsessions like material to ransack rather than celebrate. The pacing is ruthless enough that even when a bit doesn't land, the next one is already swinging. Some viewers will tap out when they realize this is comedy built on perversion with no deeper point underneath. The rest will find a show that understands exactly what it is and commits to the bit with zero restraint.

Colorful is a short-format ecchi comedy built from more than 50 brief vignettes about men, women and their pursuit of one another. The cast includes two lusty college slackers and their beautiful professor, a frustrated TV reporter, an attractive track star and her tempted coach, and a high school girl as tall as the Empire State Building. Along the way it serves up subway hotties, pervy cab drivers, panty-obsessed video nerds, mall babes and furries, all played for strange, racy laughs.