Is Karin-sama White or Blue?

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:38 pm

In the manga he is a blue cat, in the anime he is white. So, being people think whatever happens in the manga is the only "Official" way of Dragonball, does that mean Karin is officially a blue cat?

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:08 pm

It's all up to interpretation; Bulma also has purple hair in the manga for instance. Yet the fan community seems to look to the anime for coloring and the manga for events. Coloring is just one of those fun things that drive fans nuts. I mean really, no one thinks of the brown haired Vegeta either.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:30 pm

Did someone, somehow edit my post? I wrote Korin not "Karin-Sama"

Post by **VegettoEX** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:47 pm

I did. Because that's what his name is

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Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:52 pm

He's blue on the side of the graphic novels (He's on the side of DBZ volume 4, AKA DB volume 20), so I guess he's blue. The only time the anime should be used to know what the color of something is when there is no color of said thing in the manga (like Vegeta's pink "BadMan" shirt, for instance)
Was Karin in any color chapters?

Michi · Post by **Michi** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:14 pm

laserkid wrote:It's all up to interpretation; Bulma also has purple hair in the manga for instance. Yet the fan community seems to look to the anime for coloring and the manga for events. Coloring is just one of those fun things that drive fans nuts. I mean really, no one thinks of the brown haired Vegeta either.

Or the red haired one from the beginning of the Z anime? >_>

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:48 pm

Yeah I noticed that also. I dont know if its Toriyama that colors his work, but whoever does it, cant decide what shade of purple Bulma's hair is. Or what color Karin is.

Does Toriyama color his own work?

Michi · Post by **Michi** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:05 pm

Dude, on the new covers he made Kibito purple skinned and Kaioushin pink skinned. o___o;

Dai · Post by **Dai** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:43 pm

That's what they were like when he originally coloured them, though, weren't they? If so, he's simply sticking to his own colours.

Xyex · Post by **Xyex** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:14 pm

Ya, that's the way he's always colored them. The anime uses a flipped scheme though... forget which coloring came first though.

SpaceKappa · Post by **SpaceKappa** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:55 pm

Interesting to note is in the Budokai openings Vegeta's hair has a brown tint to it.

Caracal · Post by **Caracal** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:15 pm

I noticed that to. Maybe that's why SSJ4 Gogeta has red hair.

Hard to say really. Do you consider what Akira did as the true version even though it's black and white, or do you count the version that's actually in colour? Hard to say in my eyes.

*PINHEAD* · Post by ***PINHEAD*** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:09 pm

Coloring's just another inconsistency in Dragon Ball. In the early DB manga, Son Goku is shown with an orange gi in one part of a colored portion, and a dark (most likely blue) one later in the same colored part.

The S · Post by **The S** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:41 am

I've never seen a blue Korin from the manga, only a brown one.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:51 am

VegettoEX wrote:I did. Because that's what his name is .

HA HA! I know it's insignificant, but the whole "Korin" thing bugs the hell out of me! But, I for one consider him white. Please keep in mind that there's some inconsistencies in Toriyama's coloring.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:14 pm

*PINHEAD* wrote:Coloring's just another inconsistency in Dragon Ball. In the early DB manga, Son Goku is shown with an orange gi in one part of a colored portion, and a dark (most likely blue) one later in the same colored part.

Yeah, I noticed that too, the colors are never the same. It seems the colored pages are colored at random with no real thought to them. I seem to remember Nam being collored different too.

Mike D · Post by **Mike D** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:17 pm

In the Manga: Piccolo has four fingers, Imperfect Cell has three fingers, Frieza's guts hang out when in sliced in two pieces, the Cell Juniors' eyes, brains, and internal organs splatter when Gohan jacks em up, Piccolos' arms are yellow not pink , #16's eyes are popped out when Cell steps on him, and sometimes the blue in Goku's gi is so dark that it may come of as Black.

In the anime there will be minor differences (number of fingers, hair color, levels of gore). As for Karin...

....he's light blue, face it.

The S · Post by **The S** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:46 pm

Where is this blue Karin you all refer to? Every Toriyama art I've seen of him, he's brown!

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:16 am

The S wrote:Where is this blue Karin you all refer to? Every Toriyama art I've seen of him, he's brown!

The spine of DBZ volume 4 (Original Japanese Dragonball volume 20)

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:25 am

Michi wrote:
laserkid wrote: Or the red haired one from the beginning of the Z anime? >_>

Yeah what is up with that? Vegeta had orange and green armor. Did they make that scene before Toriyama had ever colored Vegeta? Or is Toei just plain stupid?