Full-Color Manga: preview/reference panels for each chapter

[Jackal puFF]

I love these! Love seeing Bulma with purple hair instead of blue! And Krillin with actual colored white eyes. Ugh those things always bother me a little whenever I watch the anime..

[KentalSSJ6]

Interesting how in the manga, Goku looks rather upset after seemingly killing Freeza when compared to the more..wanna say annoyed look he had in the anime.

[Metalwario64]

Interesting how in the manga, Goku looks rather upset after seemingly killing Freeza when compared to the more..wanna say annoyed look he had in the anime.

I don't think I've read that manga chapter, so I was unaware of that until now.


That was also one of Last House's most well animated episodes in my opinion. Almost looks straight out of the manga in this shot.

[TheAldella]

That was also one of Last House's most well animated episodes in my opinion. Almost looks straight out of the manga in this shot.

Oh, definitely. I agree 100%. Just a few episodes beforehand and almost everything afterwards was.........ngh.

[Tyro]

It's been awhile since I've perused my kanzenban; has Freeza's ki/ki blasts always been of a red-ish color? Not counting grey-scale, that is.

[Unicorn_Bazooka]

Interesting how in the manga, Goku looks rather upset after seemingly killing Freeza when compared to the more..wanna say annoyed look he had in the anime.

I don't think I've read that manga chapter, so I was unaware of that until now.


That was also one of Last House's most well animated episodes in my opinion. Almost looks straight out of the manga in this shot.

I think that expression is very different from the manga. Here it looks like he hasn't changed his expression at all.
But if you're meaning the entire episode, then okay.

[Cold Skin]

Love seeing Bulma with purple hair instead of blue!

Well, I like it when mother and son have the same color, it seems way more logical to me.
Even Toriyama make their hair color match: they usually both have purple hair, but even when he makes Bulma's hair blue in his BOG artwork, he logically matches Trunks' hair and makes them blue as well.

I was always... perplexed at how the anime chose to change Bulma's hair color, but chose not to change her son's hair accordingly.
It's striking with the color manga or some of Toriyama's artwork: when you see Bulma and Trunks side by side with the same hair color, you do have that intense feeling of mother/son resemblance, of Trunks being the new generation's half-Saiyan male version of Bulma.

But I guess people could also say that Toriyama himself (as well as the color manga) is not entirely logical either: shouldn't his eyes be either black (from Vegeta) or purple (from Bulma) instead of blue (out of nowhere)? So to their defense: if it's logical to the author that Trunks can have blue eyes out of nowhere, why wouldn't it be okay for him to have purple hair out of nowhere as well?

Interesting how in the manga, Goku looks rather upset after seemingly killing Freeza when compared to the more..wanna say annoyed look he had in the anime.

I always found this fascinating, especially cause that sad look is interpreted differently at that very moment and then when you find out he didn't kill him.
First, you think he's sad that he had to kill him in the end, because he's a good person at heart.

But when you learn he has actually spared Freezer, Goku's look becomes that of pity, like he pities Freezer for being that unredeemable stubborn "stab-in-the-back" bastard consumed by his hatred of Saiyans beyond reason, and doesn't even want to ruthlessly kill such a pitiful, now half-destroyed creature.

It's been awhile since I've perused my kanzenban; has Freeza's ki/ki blasts always been of a red-ish color? Not counting grey-scale, that is.

In the original manga, we don't really see many full-color pages with attacks of his. We know his "bubble" attack against the Super Saiyan is pinkish/reddish though.

In the color manga his attacks are not always red. Most of them are yellow, but specific attacks of his will be purple or pinkish-red:
- His super fast beams are pink/red (note that he uses a regular yellow beam to finish Vegeta, as he doesn't need a super-speed beam for him).
- Beams coming from his eyes are purple (possibly because they would be a morphologic ability rather than a "ki manipulation" technic?) and his Death Ball is purple too.
- His giant/multiple beam attack against the Super Saiyan when he's not yet at 100% is orangy, just like the beam he uses to kill Cargot (perhaps regular yellow beams tending to go to the more powerful red and being a little tainted because of that?).
- His ultimate full-power blast to try and kill Goku in the back is red as you've seen yourself.

[hleV]

Didn't check the whole manga, but Bulma has purple hair and blue eyes in the 2nd volume's (Kanzenban, of course) full-color pages. I assume that's how she's supposed to look originally.

[rereboy]

These two expressions are very different.

[TheAldella]

Not sure wether I prefer anime or manga colouring, having never read jack of the manga before because I don't have a local library with enough decency to carry Dragon Ball in their manga section...Jerks.

[rereboy]

Not sure wether I prefer anime or manga colouring, having never read jack of the manga before because I don't have a local library with enough decency to carry Dragon Ball in their manga section...Jerks.

The manga is much better than the anime, in pretty much every way. Buy it.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

Not sure wether I prefer anime or manga colouring, having never read jack of the manga before because I don't have a local library with enough decency to carry Dragon Ball in their manga section...Jerks.

My library doesn't carry mango or comics at all! They're the real jerks><

If you have not read the manga it's pretty awesome and better than the anime in my opinion.

[Cold Skin]

Didn't check the whole manga, but Bulma has purple hair and blue eyes in the 2nd volume's (Kanzenban, of course) full-color pages. I assume that's how she's supposed to look originally.

It varies from one artwork to the other, sometimes she has blue eyes and sometimes she has purple eyes like her hair.

Noteworthy: the 32nd Tankobon cover is one of the only colored Toriyama pictures showing Trunks and Bulma together.
On that picture, Bulma's eyes have the exact same tint than her purple hair and Trunks' purple hair, while Trunks' eyes are blue exactly like his jean jacket.

So even when drawing them side by side on a same picture with a same artistic style, it seems Toriyama will potentially make Trunks' eyes blue even when he makes his mother's eyes purple on the very same picture, meaning he's okay with Trunks' eyes being different than both of his parents'.
So if it's fine with Toriyama, it's okay for me. Seeing them both having the same hair color in the color manga is enough to see a striking mother/son resemblance between them, as shown in the special chapter!

[hleV]

I think it's a weird coincidence for both the hair and the eyes to have the same, purple color. Of course, in Dragon World it may be as often as black hair and eyes or brown hair and eyes, but I'm still under an impression that originally, Bulma's supposed to have blue eyes. I mean, why would Toriyama sometimes color them blue, when it's more convenient to color them the same as the hair?

[omegalucas]

Is there somebody who has bought and can check the digital volumes for the Boo arc and tell me how have they colored Grey/Evil Boo? The one that splits off from Fat Boo when the sniper hits the little dog, Bee.

[Tyro]

In the original manga, we don't really see many full-color pages with attacks of his. We know his "bubble" attack against the Super Saiyan is pinkish/reddish though.

I thought you meant his Imprisonment Light-Ball technique, but I know what you mean now. I agree that it was definitely a red-colored ki technique.

In the color manga his attacks are not always red. Most of them are yellow, but specific attacks of his will be purple or pinkish-red:
- His super fast beams are pink/red (note that he uses a regular yellow beam to finish Vegeta, as he doesn't need a super-speed beam for him).
- Beams coming from his eyes are purple (possibly because they would be a morphologic ability rather than a "ki manipulation" technic?) and his Death Ball is purple too.
- His giant/multiple beam attack against the Super Saiyan when he's not yet at 100% is orangy, just like the beam he uses to kill Cargot (perhaps regular yellow beams tending to go to the more powerful red and being a little tainted because of that?).
- His ultimate full-power blast to try and kill Goku in the back is red as you've seen yourself.

Judging by the one color page I remember, I think his ki blast from the fingertips technique should probably be yellow/orange. It's strange that the full color editions almost presents these as two levels of the technique.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Cell arc has begun in MangaPolo.

[Adamant]

The Red Ribbon arc in its entirety was made available on the 3DS eshop last week. I assume they're going to keep releasing arc packages every few months or so.

[Cold Skin]

Cell arc has begun in MangaPolo.

Holy bananas, thanks for keeping an eye and telling us about it!!
I was eagerly waiting for this arc! I still wonder what the ROSAT will look like: since the Sanctuary itself is quite white in the Full Color Manga and the ROSAT is based on the Sanctuary's colors (in the anime at least), I wonder if the room will now be all white including its one building.

I'm sure whatever they decided, it'll look good, but if EVERYTHING around was white... man, it would certainly increase the "hard not to lose your mind here" feeling.
But that would possibly be too dary... A "Full Color" edition showing everything color-less around the characters wouldn't give a good impression I guess!

[Kakarot88]

Auuuuuuuggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! I'm re-reading the series in full color via Viz's Shonen Jumps and the chapters still have that dumb incorrect dialogue of Goku and Vegeta post Vegeta transformation and Viz's Goku blames Vegeta for killing his grandpa -_-

Viz c'mon...