DBZ portion of Manga to be in full color?!

[omegalucas]

With two more Red Ribon chapters today, now it's official.
Mangapolo will seemingly speed up each arc one after another: when the Red Ribon part - currently sped up - is over, they will speed up the Piccolo part and when the Piccolo part is over, they will speed up the Saiyans part, etc...

I'm currently thinking about creating a thread showing a handful of relevant low-res "thumbnails" panels (and I do say "panels", not "pages") for each chapter so far, so that everyone can grasp an idea of what the official manga colors are for each "character/landscape/attack/time of the day" in the chapter, which should be 5-6 tiny preview panels per chapter.
For example, for chapter 1, six thumbnail pictures would show: Goku - Bulma - Goku's house inside - the Dragon Balls - Shenron - the pterosaur.
With rare additionnal notes when needed to say "from this panel on, the sun sets and the sky turns orange".

Those pictures wouldn't be big enough for you to find any other use to them, it would just be to have a glimpse (not unlike the Daizenshuu 1 glimpses of color pages that made me dream when I was a kid), but hopefully, those previews would make you see how great the colorized manga is for good and would convince you that you'd like it to be released...
But I don't know if you guys would like to have a thread where you can pretty much have a glimpse of what all official colors are for each chapter (well, the chapters published by Mangapolo, to keep in line with the content they were willing to show and be in sync with their rhythm). It's just an idea that's been on my mind lately...

I like the idea, go ahead!

[Alpha_Flight]

Do any of you fine folks know when the Android, Cell and Buu arcs are getting released? My Saiyan and Namek arcs are getting lonely Sooo much good stuff to come in full color!

[Makaioshin]

It looks like Kaio does have his Kanzenban colors in mangapolo's latest chapter of the Saiyan arc. We saw these colors before in the online preview pages for the Full Color Comics(print) even though he apparently had his anime colors in the book. I wonder if the colors are different in the digital versions as well and if there are any other differences.

Do any of you fine folks know when the Android, Cell and Buu arcs are getting released? My Saiyan and Namek arcs are getting lonely Sooo much good stuff to come in full color!

Nothing has been announced yet.

[B]

Wow, first time seeing these Mangapolo videos. The instrumentals are catchy, if a little repetitive.

[Cold Skin]

It's official, Kaio likely has his Kanzenban colors for the digital version - as opposed to the printed version -, since he has them on Mangapolo.
There are several possible explanations and therefore possible consequences.

1. The Kanzenban colors were a first choice and it was then corrected into colors fitting more with the second Kanzenban version, closer to the anime just in time for the printing.

The staff would have modified Kaio as an emergency measure right before the printing, and companies having preview pages and Mangapolo having the original digital files would not show this "correction" (although it isn't a "flaw" to start with).
This would mean that Kaio's outfit will suddenly switch to his more regular-looking outfit some time later, or perhaps when reaching the Freezer part.

2. The printed and digital versions were intentionnally meant to be different, with the digital release allowing more liberties compared to the more mainstream "meant for general audience" printed version you can find on any shop.

In that case, Kaio could keep his Kanzenban colors all along, and who knows what other characters could be different.
It would be an open door to Kanzenban versions being used, such as red Kaio Shin and blue/purple/indigo Kibito.

On another note, I'll probably start that thread I was mentionning very soon, with a 4-posts beginning to avoid the character limitation that came to be a problem with the color-correction thread and had the list divided into page 1 and page 9 (which is not the most handy thing). So with four initial posts (one list of chapter previews for each part, and the possibility to reunite at least two parts in one post if there are more parts later), there should be no problem despite pictures taking a huge number of characters that can easily hit the limit with a picture-oriented post.

[Cold Skin]

It is Tuesday, the time slot that was used to publish the Son Goku part on Mangapolo's Youtube channel.
The Son Goku part ended last Tuesday and some fans supposed that it was to start promoting the Freezer part instead.

However, only the usual daily two chapters from the Red Ribon part were published today.
It seems Mangapolo ultimately only sped up the process (one part at a time) simply to get it done as quickly as possible, and has no intention to promote the Freezer arc for now.

[Alpha_Flight]

Any news on when the Android / Cell arc is going to be released??

[Cold Skin]

Any news on when the Android / Cell arc is going to be released??

No, absolutely nothing, which is surprising.
They were extremely fast to start promoting the Freezer arc after the release of the Saiyans arc, and now, the Freezer arc has been out there for a while and it's like the Cell arc is not even on their schedule, we don't even have a release date.

This is just very strange. Perhaps they were pretty advenced in the Freezer arc so they could communicate a release date, but maybe they're just so far from being done with the Cell arc that they don't want to communicate a release date cause they don't really know when they'll be done with it themselves.

Or maybe - cause you always have to mention the worst case scenario -, the currently released volumes haven't sold well and all upcoming arc have been simply cancelled and they'll never mention them again, as if they had never been part of the initial plan (despite initially claiming that the Cell and Boo saga would come up).

[Alpha_Flight]

Any news on when the Android / Cell arc is going to be released??

No, absolutely nothing, which is surprising.
They were extremely fast to start promoting the Freezer arc after the release of the Saiyans arc, and now, the Freezer arc has been out there for a while and it's like the Cell arc is not even on their schedule, we don't even have a release date.

This is just very strange. Perhaps they were pretty advenced in the Freezer arc so they could communicate a release date, but maybe they're just so far from being done with the Cell arc that they don't want to communicate a release date cause they don't really know when they'll be done with it themselves.

Or maybe - cause you always have to mention the worst case scenario -, the currently released volumes haven't sold well and all upcoming arc have been simply cancelled and they'll never mention them again, as if they had never been part of the initial plan (despite initially claiming that the Cell and Boo saga would come up).

I sure hope not! I really don't want an incomplete run of manga's... I spent over $100.00 CAD getting those 8 books, so if they are infact cancelled, I am going to be extremely dissapointed

So let's hope that they are in fact working on the coloring now for the remainder of the series! Maybe they will even bring out the colored Dragon Ball portion into physical format as well!

[theoriginalbilis]

They might just be spacing out their releases, so they can keep the money coming in for longer...

[Super Sonic]

Noticed in this week's SJ, the dinosaur that was chasing Gohan is colored differently than he was in the anime. Here, he's orange, but in the anime he was brown.

[Cold Skin]

Noticed in this week's SJ, the dinosaur that was chasing Gohan is colored differently than he was in the anime. Here, he's orange, but in the anime he was brown.

There are many more color differences in characters than people think, especially when they're secundary or only-a-couple-appearances characters/costumes/items.
Check out the Preview panels thread going through many chapters to see many examples.

[omegalucas]

Mangabroadcast has been updated with the digital tankobon Freeza arc and Chogashu!
http://mangabroadcast.jp/feature01.html

Interestingly, they're splitting the chapters differently from the print version: the digital Freeza arc starts with Bulma and Popo getting the ship from Yuzanbit, instead of starting with Bulma, Krillin and Gohan in space like the print version.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

And Part 2 is completed. I guess they'll have 2 chapters per-day for Part 3 as well. I hope they'll start doing Part 5 as well.

[Cold Skin]

And Part 2 is completed. I guess they'll have 2 chapters per-day for Part 3 as well. I hope they'll start doing Part 5 as well.

I hope they'll do the whole manga as well.
But if they do, since they haven't started the remaining parts yet, then I guess they'll do it as if it was the direct following of part 4, in the same slot than part 4, and only when part 4 is complete.
Another possibility could be that they're waiting for all parts to be done to erase them all and have a new trio of simultaneous parts:
- Freezer.
- Cell.
- Boo.

We'll see.

[Cold Skin]

Strangely enough, Mangapolo published chapter 31 of the Piccolo part in 1080p.
This is apparently a one-time occurence since chapter 32 of the same part - published the same day - is back at 720p like all previously published chapters.

[Super Sonic]

Read the new chapter today, and is it weird I was reading Vegeta's dialogue with Mr. Drummond's Vegeta voice, but read Nappa's dialogue with Mr. Parsons' Nappa voice?

[Attitudefan]

Read the new chapter today, and is it weird I was reading Vegeta's dialogue with Mr. Drummond's Vegeta voice, but read Nappa's dialogue with Mr. Parsons' Nappa voice?

Slowly, Drummond's voice will seep into everyone and there will be nothing anybody can do to stop it

[Kendamu]

I've been reading the new chapters as well. Today, I started posting my thoughts on those chapters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvslzliu_SM

Overall, I said this:

It was a really good chapter! The coloring is really nice, too! Everything that's revealed in this chapter (about Namek, how strong everyone is, etc.) makes it a pretty important one to read to get what's going on later and it sets up a scale of how powerful everyone is without quite revealing too much about Vegeta and Nappa's abilities.

[Super Sonic]

Saw this weeks chapter and have to say, the saibaman destroyed by Vegeta's death is more graphic here than it was in black and white. Been several years since I saw the episode on CN, so don't recall it so well.