Note: This review was originally posted on MyAnimeList. Links are added for the comparisons in this review, as the reviewer starts looking back at the idea of what art is.

Google Glass: The BL anime. The whole premise of this anime was doomed from the start.

Enter the 'Sci-Fi' of perception art - it's literally Google Glass (or the highly ridiculed and memed Apple Vision). This concept was invented by one of the MC's parents (Kazuya). Fast forward 10 years and now our MCs are going to school for this so-called sci-fi concept. How is this Sci-Fi if the concept is literally something we already have? In addition to that, the cast eventually gets divided into two groups, which is known as Graders and Artists. Anybody would be able to predict that this will end up creating some of the most mundane drama possible. The anime attempts to make the premise more interesting by shoving some more melodrama halfway in, but it falls completely flat and it even gives aneurysms. It's just painful to watch, and the fact that this is labeled Sci-Fi and not Boys Love is just completely false advertising.

For an art-themed anime, the characters are as far away from art as possible. You have Kazuya, the boring genki guy destined for greatness. Then there's Jun. Your stereotypical childhood friend character. However... The anime completely shafts him despite being listed as a main character! Kyou holds back some trauma, which makes him potentially interesting, but he's so unlikable that it's hard to even pay attention to whatever possible character development he faces. If you thought the relationships in other drama-heavy anime such as Domestic Girlfriend and School Days is toxic, just wait until you see this. It's not even the kind of dumpster fire that people want to see. It's literally walking into skunk spray. Artist/grader relationships are so uninteresting yet so toxic. To top this all off, they start introducing a ton of side characters that are as monotone and monochrome as possible. Any sense of character development that might have happened is ruined by how flat and dull all the main and side characters are.

So, that also brings art into the question; It has colors in its name, so it must be a visually appealing anime, right? WRONG Just look at Yuru Camp, another anime by the same studio. Literally a CGDCT about camping has more color and better visual quality than a visual arts anime with color in its name. Opus.COLORs uses some of the most monotonous color schemes out there. Every character looks like they're dulled out visually, and the same can be said about the backdrops. On top of the atrocious color scheme for what the anime's topic is, it also uses visually unappealing CGI. I'm generally not too critical of CGI in general, but having this on top of a story that's DOA and characters that make Nina Einstein and Hina Sato look well written, this just adds injury to insult. The CGI makes this already unbearable disaster of an anime literally unwatchable.

Given that this is an art-based anime, one would be forgiven to expect good quality music, but remember: this is Opus.COLORs, not Nana. It's not Bocchi the Rock either. It's just a garbage seasonal with uninspired music too (okay, may be calling it garbage is too generous). While the voice acting from the cast isn't that bad, any positive here is completely drowned by the amount of other things Opus.COLORs does wrong.

Do you enjoy watching paint dry? I mean, that's still technically art related because it involves paint. If you do enjoy watching paint dry, I have good news: this anime might just be for you. When your main cast is so boring and the anime fails to even make the viewer even want to know about the side characters, there's literally no enjoyment to be taken from this anime. it's the kind of anime you just watch while playing Minecraft or something while going autopilot with mining. Or, better yet, let this anime run its runtime while reading some quality manga. I ended up doing both these things while trying to watch this anime.

A closing note:

Remember, this anime has colors in its name, yet it's outdone in color by a slow-paced CGDCT camping anime. This anime is one of the most soulless and painful anime I've ever had to sit through. I could have spent my time rewatching some actually good anime. I spent my time staying on top of this bullshit instead of Birdie Wing S2 all because I don't drop anime. When an anime is DOA with the story, there's not much that can be done. Just watch any other anime out there; this feels like they tried to string a whole bunch of bad MVs together.

Opus.COLORs is the worst case scenario for colorblindness ever.