niko | (no subject)

I've been watching a few eps. of Monochrome Factor. It's still not going to win any prizes for originality, but it has a not-quite-as-tough best friend who's ready and willing to jump into the fight side-by-side with the superpowered hero, to hell with the danger. Loyal best friends are like my kryptonite.

One thing I find interesting is that the flashbacks in this series show Kengo and his sister as having dark hair when they were children. Both are blond in the present day. I am oddly charmed that the animators thought to make this little touch. I can't think of any other series where it's made explicitly clear that no, that very Japanese character's very un-Japanese (blue/pink/chartreuse-with-purple-polka-dots) hair color is not natural. I like it.