Colorful vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.2/10 for Colorful). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h 7m. Colorful is the older of the two (2010 against 2020). Both are animation, drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Colorful
Soul| Colorful | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2010 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h 7m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, Family | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Keiichi Hara | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Akiyoshi Nakao, Hideyuki Tanaka, Akiko Yajima, Keiji Fujiwara, Kumiko Aso | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Colorful
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser…
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…