NCMA Loves Anime Bazaar and Film Screening

Join us for the summer NCMA Loves Anime bazaar, featuring a day full of anime vendors, food, music, and a preshow screening of the anime short Deji Meets Girl at 7:30 pm, followed by a screening of Naoko Yamada’s feature film The Colors Within at 8 pm!

Deji Meets Girl (2021). Directed by Ushio Tazawa, animation
One summer, Maise Higa, a listless first-year high school student who works part-time at the front desk of her family’s hotel in Okinawa, meets an “Ichiro Suzuki,” a mysterious youth who came alone from Tokyo as a hotel guest.

The Colors Within (2024). Directed by Naoko Yamada, 1 hr. 41 min., animation/drama/music, PG
Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the colors of others—colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn’t play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections. Will they discover their true colors?