Kamehameha color.

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Kamehameha color.

Post by MarCas92 » Wed May 06, 2015 7:37 pm

In the anime it's always known as the blue attack. Even though a lot of the time it's just white with blue shading, but I digress.

In the manga however, we only see it as white. Is this different in the full color versions? Is white the color Toriyama intended?
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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by Kaboom » Wed May 06, 2015 7:47 pm

I think most if not all ki blasts in the manga are colored a generic yellow. Even ones that had trademark colors in the anime and other material, like blue for the Kamehameha and pink for the Gallic Gun and so forth.
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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by Lord Beerus » Wed May 06, 2015 7:49 pm

Well, in some instances the Kamehameha was yellow:

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But as Kaboom pointed out, practically all Ki blasts were yellow in coloured version of the manga. I go with blue version in the anime because that's just the coolest for me. 8)
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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by MarCas92 » Wed May 06, 2015 7:51 pm

Kaboom wrote:I think most if not all ki blasts in the manga are colored a generic yellow. Even ones that had trademark colors in the anime and other material, like blue for the Kamehameha and pink for the Gallic Gun and so forth.
Well looking at the original run. All blasts are white in the limited color pages, but in the full color pages the kamehameha is white the first time we see it(vs Freeza). But yea, looking at the FULL Color versions, the Kamehameha is yellow. I guess Budokai 1 was right all along....
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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by Pantalones » Thu May 07, 2015 12:02 am

Didn't a lot of the video games show yellow Kamehamehas, not just the first Budokai? I seem to remember that the SNES fighting games (Super Butoden series) had yellow Kamehamehas, too.

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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by One_Instance » Thu May 07, 2015 12:55 pm

I like the blue one a lot better, maybe beacause that's the first one that I was ever exposed to, but there are a few times in the anime where we see a yellow kamehameha. For instance:
There are more instances of these in anime, but I'll let you find those on your own if you really want to see them.

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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by Doctor. » Thu May 07, 2015 1:01 pm

Goku's yellow Kamehameha against Freeza was later recolored to blue in BoG.

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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by One_Instance » Thu May 07, 2015 1:28 pm

Doctor. wrote:Goku's yellow Kamehameha against Freeza was later recolored to blue in BoG.
I've only watched the extended cut of BoG once, so I hardly remember that.

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Re: Kamehameha color.

Post by Tyro » Thu May 07, 2015 2:31 pm

The full color manga colored the majority of ki blast attacks yellow, and that makes sense IMO. The Kamehameha is like a glorified ki blast.

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