Would you rather the original colors?

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Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Ringworm128 » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:20 am

If Kai was made from scratch instead of just being a touch up of the old footage. Would you have wanted the Characters to be in the original colors (Blue Karin Purple Haired Bulma etc)?

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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Mewzard » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:52 am

As a person long abused by Toei's horrible "Let Your Children Color The Anime Day", I say yes, I want the Original Manga Colors. In fact, I want them to remake several of their 80s anime series in the style of FMA: Brotherhood, and do the colors as they were meant to.

I always prefer my colors to be accurate when possible.
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Ahiru77 » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:01 am

I wouldn't mind.

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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Chuquita » Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:48 pm

It would've brought something a little different to the table; I'd be alright with it.
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Mosaic » Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:47 pm

Not really. The colors for the anime never really bothered me. Not even green armor Vegeta.
Mewzard wrote:As a person long abused by Toei's horrible "Let Your Children Color The Anime Day", I say yes, I want the Original Manga Colors.
Why did green-hair Kaiba spring to mind?

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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by penguintruth » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:36 pm

As long as the sky is still a green-blue. :D
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Mewzard » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:56 pm

Mosaic wrote:Not really. The colors for the anime never really bothered me. Not even green armor Vegeta.
Mewzard wrote:As a person long abused by Toei's horrible "Let Your Children Color The Anime Day", I say yes, I want the Original Manga Colors.
Why did green-hair Kaiba spring to mind?
Because Toei gave Kaiba green hair? Gave Bulma Blue Hair?Gave 3/4ths of the cast of Saint Seiya weird colored hair when they had normal colored hair, mostly?

Yeah, I'm a bit bitter with some of Toei's worst habits (Inconsistent animation, taking out canon material, and mixing in filler, poor detail), so I generally don't give them the normal slack I'd give other companies.
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Chibi Gohan » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:04 pm

This certainly would've made Kai a more interesting release. It would've been better than the rehash they did.
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Cipher » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:48 pm

Definitely. If only to differentiate a remake from the original.

Honestly, I'd like it if a future series took a radically different approach and stuck with not only the accurate colors, but a more pastel palette all around, like the color chapters.

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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by linkdude20002001 » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:30 am

I loved how FA: Brotherhood looked a lot more like the comic that the first anime. If Kai was the same way, I would've been ecstatic. Bulma and Trunks should have purple hair... :/
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Goku100xKamehameha » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:55 am

linkdude20002001 wrote:I loved how FA: Brotherhood looked a lot more like the comic that the first anime. If Kai was the same way, I would've been ecstatic. Bulma and Trunks should have purple hair... :/
But Trunks already did use the purple hair.

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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by Puto » Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:03 pm

Trunks' hair in the anime is a very subdued, faded grayish purple, whereas in the manga it's a very strong purple, similar to GT Trunks.

Bulma probably ended up with blue hair in the anime because the first chapter of the manga had her with blue hair before Toriyama decided to change it to purple. I'd love to see the anime with purple-haired Bulma, though. Looked awesome in the 10th anniversary movie.
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Re: Would you rather the original colors?

Post by linkdude20002001 » Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:53 am

And with how bad the film quality was, I've had friends tell me his hair is pink. It's not pink; it's lavender. But still, that's not at all the right shade of purple... :(

And I don't get why they went with greenish hair for Bulma, and blue dogi for Gokuh... They were purple and orange by chapter three or so... >_>
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