Seeing that the last Vivre Cards are showing colored panels of Marco attacking the Big Mama Shanter i think it safe to assume that we will get a new batch of colored volumes very soon. Hopefully we can reach volume 96:ninja:
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One Piece digital-colored chapters by Shueisha v2
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Yeah, Vivre Cards are better than nothing. We know surprisingly little about the pack for how close to release it is. Still, I'd kill for some consistency in the colour releases.
I wonder how long they'll actually be able leave us though. Shueisha's only got about 9 ongoing full colour releases, and almost all of the others are closer to their black and white counterparts than One Piece is. I did some looking around the website and noted down some findings:
| Series | Colour Volumes | Black and White Volumes | Volumes Behind | Last Release |
| Dragon Ball Super | 15 | 16 | 1 | July 2021 |
| Jojolion | 25 | 26 | 1 | May 2021 |
| Hunter x Hunter | 34 | 36 | 2 | January 2018 |
| Kaguya-sama | 19 | 22 | 3 | June 2021 |
| Shokugeki no Soma | 32 | 36 | 4 | June 2021 |
| Spy X Family | 3 | 7 | 4 | June 2021 |
| One Piece | 93 | 99 | 6 | March 2021 |
| Yuuna and the Haunted Hot springs | 15 | 24 | 9 | April 2020 |
| Golden Kamuy | 10 | 26 | 16 | June 2021 |There are plenty of other series they've done colour releases for in the past, but all of those are either completed, or haven't updated since before 2018 and are assumed abandoned. They're also able to start doing new series whenever they want (like Spy X Family and Golden Kamuy, which literally started this month), and there are a few ongoing "semi-colour" releases I didn't bother counting, that only colour a handful of pages per chapter (usually ecchi ones, from what I saw) which could take up the colouring team's time and attention. But broadly, the numbers say we'll be due for an update sooner rather than later. Keep your fingers crossed!
(here's the list of colour releases, sorted by latest updates, for anyone who wants to look through the offerings themselves)
Have they released any of these in print? I know we got the Saiyan and Freeza arcs of Dragon Ball in print in English, but that's it so far.
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@Vongola_Boss_XI:
Have they released any of these in print? I know we got the Saiyan and Freeza arcs of Dragon Ball in print in English, but that's it so far.
I've looked far and wide, and none of these are available in print. I cannot even find a Japanese print version of the Saiyan and Frieza arcs. In other words, when Viz made Dragon Ball Z Full Color, they took it upon themselves to make a print version. And for whatever reason, Viz stopped releasing those, so I wouldn't expect them to ever do it again.
The best you can hope for when it comes to print versions is that the pages that were originally colorized by the mangaka in the weekly/monthly release stay colorized.
Sometimes Viz will release a standard version of a series that grayscales the color pages (Dragon Ball, JoJo's, etc.) but then they make an improved release that keeps the colored pages in color (often an omnibus edition or a large print edition; or both.)
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@Vongola_Boss_XI:
Have they released any of these in print? I know we got the Saiyan and Freeza arcs of Dragon Ball in print in English, but that's it so far.
I've looked far and wide, and none of these are available in print. I cannot even find a Japanese print version of the Saiyan and Frieza arcs. In other words, when Viz made Dragon Ball Z Full Color, they took it upon themselves to make a print version. And for whatever reason, Viz stopped releasing those, so I wouldn't expect them to ever do it again.
The best you can hope for when it comes to print versions is that the pages that were originally colorized by the mangaka in the weekly/monthly release stay colorized.
Sometimes Viz will release a standard version of a series that grayscales the color pages (Dragon Ball, JoJo's, etc.) but then they make an improved release that keeps the colored pages in color (often an omnibus edition or a large print edition; or both.)
Unfortunately for One Piece, both the standard and omnibus releases grayscale color pages.Japan had the full series of Dragon Ball in colour, but that's the only one I know of. Viz's releases follow what Shueisha did there.
I'd like to see them do more, but you have to wonder how well they sold. Dragon Ball is one of the oldest things in Viz's stable and has three releases already between the regular volumes, Viz Big edition and 3-in-1 omnibus edition. A lot of collectors would have had the series, and the colour release was more expensive, kind of an unknown in terms of quality at the time, and contained fewer chapters per volume. It wouldn't shock me at all to hear they underperformed. One Piece might do better if they market it right, maybe taking the chance to make the updated translation everyone's been waiting for, but at the same time the recent box sets seem to popular, and the people who got them might not want to double dip.
I saw someone saying once that Viz's licencing agreement won't let it publish anything that hasn't been printed in Japan. Ie, they couldn't just decide to do an English colour release on their own, or they did they could only do it digitally. That was almost definitely conjecture, but it holds true across the releases I've seen. They don't make new volumes with different chapters in them (aside from fringe cases like the divide between Jojo parts and the English DB/DBZ separation), they do omnibuses or they follow a kanzenban or other Japanese release instead. The majority of "improved" releases I've seen aren't just deciding to add the colour pages back in, they're following a kanzenban that had them in Japanese too. The Part 4 and beyond Jojo editions might be an exception to this, since they seem to be 2-in-1s of the regular volumes, but get away with restoring colour content because they're following on from the Jojonium-based parts 1-3 release.
There might be more exceptions for non-Jump stuff or non-Shuesha stuff, or cases that prove me wrong entirely here, but it's what I've observed in my own collecting.
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Seeing that the last Vivre Cards are showing colored panels of Marco attacking the Big Mama Shanter i think it safe to assume that we will get a new batch of colored volumes very soon. Hopefully we can reach volume 96:ninja:
The new colour panels I've seen so far go nearly to the end of volume 98. We know they've got more behind the scenes, but how much more is a good question. What of the Vivre Card previews is from a full volumes, and what was a panel cherry-picked and coloured specifically for the card, we may never know.
The first time we had Vivre Card packs coming out consistently it was just before and during the mega hiatus before 87 - 92 dropped all at once, and the cards had panels from miles ahead of where the volumes were. They might not be actually finishing as many volumes if they're focussed grabbing panels far ahead of where they're actually up to. Time will tell, but I hope you're right and they give us at least another couple of them soon.
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Japan had the full series of Dragon Ball in colour, but that's the only one I know of. Viz's releases follow what Shueisha did there.
Oh wow that's really cool. I was never able to find that. I bet Shueisha chose this series because it has the flattest colors, makes it easy to print. Although the Vivre Cards kinda prove that they could do One Piece color in print if they wanted to.
@Captain:I saw someone saying once that Viz's licencing agreement won't let it publish anything that hasn't been printed in Japan. Ie, they couldn't just decide to do an English colour release on their own, or they did they could only do it digitally. That was almost definitely conjecture, but it holds true across the releases I've seen.
Yeah the only reason I assumed Viz took it upon themselves to do Dragon Ball Color in print was because I couldn't find the Japanese version; whenever I looked for it I only ever got e-books. But since Japan did it themselves, that throws that hypothesis out.
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Oh wow that's really cool. I was never able to find that. I bet Shueisha chose this series because it has the flattest colors, makes it easy to print. Although the Vivre Cards kinda prove that they could do One Piece color in print if they wanted to.
Yeah the only reason I assumed Viz took it upon themselves to do Dragon Ball Color in print was because I couldn't find the Japanese version; whenever I looked for it I only ever got e-books. But since Japan did it themselves, that throws that hypothesis out.
I'm no expert on printing, but I don't think it would that much of a cost difference between Dragon Ball and any other colour offering. No more than the jump from black and white to colour was in the first place.
I wonder if physical colour Dragon Ball did any better in Japan than it seems to have in English. Shuesha was willing to finish the DB set, but there's been no apparent enthusiasm for anything else. I remember when these colour releases first started coming out (2012, nearly a decade ago now), the fan communities I was following were slow to accept the colour releases as a legitimate way to experience the series. There was a perceived blasphemy in altering the mangaka's original black and white art, concerns about colour consistency and whether anime or manga styles were being followed, and some early volumes simply not being as good as the recent releases. The earliest Japanese Dragon Ball physical volume came out in 2013, only a year after the digital colour volumes started appearing, long before I remember attitudes really starting to change.
But these days, for series like One Piece and in particular Jojo, when someone shares an older manga page it feels almost as likely to be in colour as it is black and white. These versions are both sought out and recommended to others, and people are interested in finding and making better translations for them (in the absence of official support).
Maybe there'd be more support for these releases now that everyone's had a chance to get used to them and the colour volumes have had enough time to prove themselves as of worthwhile quality. And maybe if we're talking English releases, take careful stock of where demand is for a new version and how much of a collection commitment they're asking people to make rather than charging blindly into releasing a 32 volume set of a series that was already out in three different formats.
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Hello guys
any idea on when we'll get new colored volumes?
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Hello guys
any idea on when we'll get new colored volumes?
Nope, it just happens whenever it happens.
They usually drop near the start of a new month and first appear on the Shueisha website about two weeks before release. Give this page a refresh around the middle of the month to see if anything's coming September, but someone always announces them here prettymuch as soon as they show up anyway.
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I still wish to have every colored volume in japanese, but pretty much all of the links here expired. Doesn't anyone have them all?
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Still no word on new volumes, but the Vivre Cards are leaking with freshly coloured panels. So far, all panels from volume 99 all appear in colour, and some from volume 100 do as well (but just as many from that volume are left awkwardly monochrome). Panels from the raid still reflect anime colours over manga ones for the Strawhats' outfits (that one segment of Jinbe's cape, Sanji's tie), but the interior of Onigashima (at least the Performance Floor area) has a different pallet to what the anime's doing. White and red up the walls, as opposed to the cream and wood-brown used in the anime. I hope the manga sticks with the scheme here. I think it's a lot more interesting and pleasant on the eye than the anime's version.
Cropped because it's all low quality and heavily watermarked, but here's the strawhat outfits still in anime mode and a glimpse of the manga background colours.
And some more of those red and white walls, which will be contrasted with blue roof segments on the main castle wall (which the anime also has).
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Red walls versus night-blue rooftop is actually a pretty genius visual decision. Props to whoever on the creative team came up with it. It also stays consistent with the blue oni/red oni typical of that Japanese historical period.
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The Tobi Roppo cards are showing a lot more uncoloured panels, including ones from their matchup spreads in chapter 998, so colouring is definitely an ongoing process for volume 99. I think the most recent panel to be coloured is Big Mom punching Page One from chapter 1011.
I think based on this, it'll be a while before we get any full Onigashima volumes in colour, but it'd be nice if the next batch at least goes through Oden flashback.
Also, Queen's card has a better shot of the Performance Floor environment and I want to emphasise again how much I love the colour choices for it. My mental image had been a lot closer to what the anime's done with it, and it's such a pleasant surprise how much this version pops.
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The Numbers' card uses uncoloured panels from as far back as chapter 989, in volume 98. Goes a long way to show how long the colour work takes and how far out of order the artists have to work for the Vivre Cards. This pack especially must have come down to the wire to have so much still in monochrome. It's hard to make any safe assumptions about how many volumes they actually have completed and held back behind the scenes.
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So not sure if this is notable, but this week's issue of Saikyou Jump includes an insert containing a printed copy of a few digitally colored chapters from Chopper's flashback.
https://twitter.com/japandealworld/status/1433545282533298176
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first time the digitally colored chapters are being offered in printed format. I hope this means a release of the entire series is possible in the future.
I know they're releasing those new omnibus volumes in Japan (not kanzeban). It would be nice if they released digitally colored chapters even in a bulk format.
Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook, Jimbei, Carrot, Vivi, Smoker
"ONE PIECE, IT EXISTS" - The Great Pirate Edward Newgate
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So not sure if this is notable, but this week's issue of Saikyou Jump includes an insert containing a printed copy of a few digitally colored chapters from Chopper's flashback.
https://twitter.com/japandealworld/status/1433545282533298176
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first time the digitally colored chapters are being offered in printed format. I hope this means a release of the entire series is possible in the future.
I know they're releasing those new omnibus volumes in Japan (not kanzeban). It would be nice if they released digitally colored chapters even in a bulk format.
I'm pretty sure you're right. I've seen panels and character art from the colour version used liberally in promo material, but this is the first sign I've seen of full chapters being put out there. That's exciting and I hope it leads to more!
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Hello! I just want to ask does anyone own all or most of the color volumes of One Piece released in high quality? I don't care about the translation, I just want it to be of the best quality possible
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Got today last Saikyo Jump issue, that has a special booklet with some chapters about Chopper. The important thing is that all chapters are in full color, the first time we can see One Piece full color edition chapters printed. Paper quality of this book is not very good (not as good as Dragon Ball full color edition Tankobons) but chapters looks fine!!
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Between this and the Vivre Cards I really do feel teased by the prospect of a print release of the colour manga. And if it does ever happen, we'd still have to bridge the gape between that and getting an English release…
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Hello! I just want to ask does anyone own all or most of the color volumes of One Piece released in high quality? I don't care about the translation, I just want it to be of the best quality possible[
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Got today last Saikyo Jump issue, that has a special booklet with some chapters about Chopper. The important thing is that all chapters are in full color, the first time we can see One Piece full color edition chapters printed. Paper quality of this book is not very good (not as good as Dragon Ball full color edition Tankobons) but chapters looks fine!!
https://images2.imgbox.com/90/c7/l8ApGtXR_o.jpg
https://images2.imgbox.com/91/61/ge0jLH2S_o.jpg
https://images2.imgbox.com/0c/a4/LSBLvQlp_o.jpgImagine someone scans these in HQ.
People be reading the colored manga online and every chapter is 760x1200 and then all the sudden Chapters 148-152 are 3600 pixels. -
Finally !! Volume 94 and 95 coming on Oct 4th !
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Fantastic news! It's gonna be great to finally have the colour version past act 2. And what a great complement to the digital volume 100 coming out at the same time.
Hopefully volume 96 is close behind, maybe alongside volume 101. Then we can at least be up to the raid, even if nothing else from act 3 comes out until after Wano's done.
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Great news! My bandwidth is ready.
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Hey guys, it's been a minute
I'm rereading OP colored thru tachiyomi, using the mangadex extension. But chapters end at 763.
Where can I continue reading them in english?
I quickly skimmed thru this topic to see if there were links on the first pages but I guess these sites are expired by now
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Hey guys, it's been a minute
I'm rereading OP colored thru tachiyomi, using the mangadex extension. But chapters end at 763.
Where can I continue reading them in english?
I quickly skimmed thru this topic to see if there were links on the first pages but I guess these sites are expired by now
The powermanga translations stopped at Volume 76 so that's why it ended there on whatever site you were using.
An anonymous translator continued Volumes 77-93 color in a Viz-esque style. It can be found on several manga reading websites: mangasee123.com and readonepiece.com just to name a couple.
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Thank you, I managed to find a site that is apparently completely updated on these
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Some of the pics
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Some pictures from Volumes 94 and 95. More pictures soon and full RAWs too
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More HQ pictures
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Thanks a lot, Scotch & redon!
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Redon and Scotch, you're both legends! Amazing to have such high quality rips so soon after release!
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Volume 94 and 95 Color Ver !
http://bit.ly/3uCX6Fa
http://bit.ly/3uzMp6mhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAyW-t-WQAEe3I-?format=jpg&name=large
Hey Scotch, page 90 seems to be missing from volume 95. Do you have it on its own to download?
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Hey Scotch, page 90 seems to be missing from volume 95. Do you have it on its own to download?
All fine now.
the missing page
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All fine now.
the missing page
16 characters of thanks heaps!
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Here original RAWs, no blurred and upscaled scans
ONE PIECE VOLUME 94 FULL COLOR RAW HQ
https://www.sendspace.com/file/qpjocq
ONE PIECE VOLUME 95 FULL COLOR RAW HQ
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I don't know… maybe it's me... but recently I've been finding a lot of the coloring too bright and over the top. It causes me a little fatigue and it's not always tasteful.
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Thanks again Redon! The untouched rips are definitely sharper than the upscaled ones.
The colour version doesn't seem to be coming down on any one colour for visible haki effects like lightning and auras. There's a lot of purple, which is always a good one for energy, but the golden glow for Kaido and Big Mom splitting the sky was a surprise. I wasn't picturing the energy from their clash being quite that bright and I'm still adjusting my mental image of the scene to it, but it's undeniable that it looks really good. Very keen to see what's done with Roger and Whitebeard and all the advanced CoC lights and lightning on Onigashima's roof.
The one major letdown of this batch is Queen's dinosaur form. That ugly shade of yellow needed to be broken up with a few splotches of a different shade or an underbelly segment going down the front; it just doesn't work across such the huge, unbroken area his neck provides.
In the same area, the prison mine backdrop as a whole is pretty scarce-looking, but the colourists did a great job with the more detailed backgrounds elsewhere in Wano. Hakumai's autumn tones, the detail on the fleet of rundown ships and the stormy seas on the eve of the raid all look spectacular and the bamboo forest and Flower Capital continue to be really pleasing to the eye.
I'm sure I'll always say this, but I hope the next volume comes quickly. Volume 96 has a bunch of panels and spreads that should look great in colour. I want to actually see the sunset turning the Scabbards' scabbards red! It's a scene that feels built to be in colour. The hour of legend should also be a highlight, if the preview of it from the Vivre Card is anything to go by.
I don't know… maybe it's me... but recently I've been finding a lot of the coloring too bright and over the top. It causes me a little fatigue and it's not always tasteful.
Do you think that's just a symptom of the vibrant colour schemes Oda's chosen for the Wano cast rather than the actual colouring job? It's not like the overall style's really changed. These most recent two volumes in particular were forced to overemphasise how bright the cast is by contrasting them barren, white background of the prison mine in so many scenes, which didn't do them a lot of favours.
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Do you think that's just a symptom of the vibrant colour schemes Oda's chosen for the Wano cast rather than the actual colouring job? It's not like the overall style's really changed. These most recent two volumes in particular were forced to overemphasise how bright the cast is by contrasting them barren, white background of the prison mine in so many scenes, which didn't do them a lot of favours.
Well, the colorful nature of the cast is certainly a part of the reason, but I'm not sure it's only because of that, but I can't make a technical analysis of the brightness. Maybe it's just me. But apart from the characters and scenario, the colorists do have freedom with the color of an empty background and some other filters, and sometimes their choices jump out of the page instead of relaxing in the background, especially in the context of the colorfulness of everything else in the page.
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Queen's dinosaur form being the same color as his hair seems like a very odd decision to me. If you want to make him or his hair yellow, that is fine, but just don't do both the same color.
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Queen's dinosaur form being the same color as his hair seems like a very odd decision to me. If you want to make him or his hair yellow, that is fine, but just don't do both the same color.
To me, his scales look like a dark orange, not yellow. Could just be me, I suppose.
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Just for fun, digital color versions of various characters:
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Does Anybody know how to rip file from amazon after purchased? Can show me how to do that? Please
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So it looks like some of the Numbers are going to be fairly different between the colour manga and the anime. Both the Vivre Cards and the Where's Wally collab agree on blue, green and pink for Jaki, Juki and Goki, including the colours of their horns:
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Meanwhile the anime version swaps those tones around a little and makes them a lot brighter:
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Nangi wasn't coloured on the Vivre Card, but if we assume the collab is following the manga's canon colours, he'll have blue skin rather than the anime's white.
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Between these and the change to the Performance Floor's colour scheme, I'm really interested to get the full colour volumes for the raid because it seems like there's going to be a lot of little differences to spot.
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How come Diamante's shirt is pink even though it's actually black and white?
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How come Diamante's shirt is pink even though it's actually black and white?
This question actually has two answers:
- The image you pulled for comparison is from a preview chapter of 714. This is what many would call a "prototype" coloring and isn't canon.
In Volume 72 color, you will see that Diamante's colors are correct.
- To this you might say "well ok, it's not pink but it's still not black and white. So my point still stands." But this is still Chapter 714. At this time, Oda was only showing Diamante in obscured view.
If we look at panels after his debut in the Colosseum, we will see his shirt is indeed black and white.
The panel in Chapter 714 doesn't have drawn stripes, which is probably why Shueisha colored it differently.
With this, it can be assumed that it was actually a different shirt entirely, and Diamante made a costume change sometime between that and entering the Colosseum.
- The image you pulled for comparison is from a preview chapter of 714. This is what many would call a "prototype" coloring and isn't canon.
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How come Diamante's shirt is pink even though it's actually black and white?
He's wearing the right shirt by the time he actually gets in the colosseum ring.
Given that even in the black and white version of that second panel Oda didn't draw the stripes, so it really seems just to be that he changed before the final round.
That second pic also seems to be from the preview version of that chapter, which was rushed out and had a bunch of janky colours. The pants and cape are the right tone by the time of the final volume release, but it's still obviously a different shirt.
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He's wearing the right shirt by the time he actually gets in the colosseum ring.
https://i.imgur.com/vaBksMF.png
Given that even in the black and white version of that second panel Oda didn't draw the stripes, so it really seems just to be that he changed before the final round.
That second pic also seems to be from the preview version of that chapter, which was rushed out and had a bunch of janky colours. The pants and cape are the right tone by the time of the final volume release, but it's still obviously a different shirt.
So did Giolla dye her hair too?
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So did Giolla dye her hair too?
Well, again, that's from the preview version of the chapter. It was released (I'm pretty sure) as a promo for a new digital edition of Jump, when that chapter was prettymuch the current one. But it was obviously a rush job with a bunch of colours that weren't quite right.
All of which were fixed in the full volume release.
Actually, I'm curious about where you're reading the old version. It kinda disappeared from the internet after the volume version came out, but it would be neat to put the two versions of the chapter side by side.
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Well, again, that's from the preview version of the chapter. It was released (I'm pretty sure) as a promo for a new digital edition of Jump, when that chapter was prettymuch the current one. But it was obviously a rush job with a bunch of colours that weren't quite right.
All of which were fixed in the full volume release.
https://i.imgur.com/P8mj2SX.png
Actually, I'm curious about where you're reading the old version. It kinda disappeared from the internet after the volume version came out, but it would be neat to put the two versions of the chapter side by side.
These are the only two sites that seemed to have preserved the digital colors in its original coloring:
https://portalpieceoficial.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/manga-colorido-capitulo-714/
