Mitsuboshi Colors: Complete Collection

Comics inspired this sprightly but mild shojo farce. In a placid community, three little girls have formed a crimefighting/private-detective agency called Colors, dedicated to "keeping the peace" in the neighborhood. But since there is no real crime, the friendly local citizens provide the trio with contrived little mysteries, puzzles, or business to "solve"—everything from disarming a mock bomb to trying to sell batches of overripe bananas to consumers before they go bad, to fighting a "zombie" outbreak (actually a role-playing game). The girls also become distracted by trips to zoos and museums, and in teaching themselves how to survive on wild plants. Frequently the Colors team pesters Saito, a frenemy police officer, with their caseloads. Some dialogue is poop-centric, and one girl has a sanguine attitude (shocking her partners with talk about killing), but overall this is a pretty low-key (not counting the heroines' fairly constant high decibel levels) and fun series. Compiling all 12 episodes from 2018 in a dual-language Blu-ray edition, rated TV-14, this is recommended. (C. Cassady)