Iroduku: The World in Colors

A time‑bending spell paints a monochrome girl's heart with love, art, and destiny.

Hitomi Tsukishiro lives in a world drained of hue, where even the brightest fireworks bleed into gray. Her grandmother, Kohaku, a reclusive sorceress who has spent six decades siphoning moonlight, finally activates a long‑awaited spell. The ritual thrusts Hitomi back to 2018, into the bustling days of Kohaku’s own high‑school years. Though Kohaku offers no clear directive, she promises that Hitomi’s purpose will reveal itself once she arrives. Guided by a whimsical, yellow‑eyed train conductor, Hitomi is dropped at the doorstep of Yūto Aoi, a stoic art student whose sketches possess an uncanny ability to bleed color into the bleakness that surrounds her. As Yūto’s charcoal lines blossom into vivid pigments, Hitomi begins to sense the fragile threads linking memory, emotion, and the very spectrum she has lost. She must navigate teenage rivalries, a tangled love polygon, and the looming shadow of a future that may hinge on a single brushstroke. In a city where magic is ordinary yet feelings are scarce, Hitomi’s journey becomes a delicate dance between restoring her own chromatic soul and shaping the destiny of those she comes to love.

Hitomi, a teen who sees the world in monochrome due to emotional withdrawal, is sent back in time by her grandmother to 2018 to rediscover color through art and friendship. The series handles themes of depression, family legacy, and first love with a gentle, melancholic tone and no graphic content.