Inspiration: Color and character

If you have children, chances are you've seen cartoons, lots of cartoons, and less face it, to an adult, many of them are really unbearably stupid. In fact, there's one on the tube as I write this.
Funny thing: one of the first things my wife and I watched together was a cartoon and it was great. We watched on DVD and couldn't wait to see what happened next. The cartoon was Tenchi and it featured a great heroine, space pirate Ryoko.
Tenchi is classic adolescent fantasy ... firing on all the Jungian cylinders. (I'm old enough to recognize one, but young enough to appreciate it). A boy steals some keys from his grandfather and sneaks into a cave where he awakens a female space pirate/demon ... Ryoko (right). A classic bad girl gone good ... a sort of pre-Xena who can shoot energy beams from her hands, teleport, regenerate lost limbs, and drink like a sailor. In short, a perfect Anima.
And she's also got really cool outfits ... this one in particular struck me even at the time as having a sophisticated thing going on with color.
Color complement pairs are red-green, blue-orange, and purple-yellow.

Normally with red-green it's hard not to think of Christmas. You've got to shift something. Here, it looks like they've paired red-green, with a weakened and matched set, orange and the light green in the hair. I'd love to find an excuse to use a scheme like this sometime.

Update: 

Thinking about this overnight. I tend to use color complements in the traditional painterly sense, but scientifically, perhaps the pairings should be red-cyan, green-orange.

About the show: What made the cartoon so good ... the character design and voice acting were all top notch ... the script was funny. You can watch it with the kids (we did) and there's still plenty for adults to appreciate. Lots of sly fun and innuendo, but without the cool irony of a show that doesn't really want to commit to it's own story ... there's an endearing earnestness to it.