The Confusing Colors of Dragon Ball

[00:00:00]HEY THERE. HOW'S THIS?

[00:00:04]>> THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE ME, you >> All right, I have quite a bit of interesting lore for you today. Quick disclaimer, this is an enhanced version of the original video that got demonetized. So, this is a repost, but I'm taking this as a chance to add in a pretty substantial amount of info I didn't cover the first time. Over the last few months, I've probably skimmed through the Dragon Ball manga tens of times while researching and collecting panels for videos. Over the course of that, I've noticed quite a few little details that I think would be quite interesting to talk about. That, of course, being the intended colors for our characters. There's a few pretty well-known issues in this regard, like how the anime made Goku's ghee a lot redder than it was supposed to be, or the complicated debacle with Bulma and Trunks' evershifting purple and blue hair, which I will get more in detail with in a bit. But there's quite a few very interesting discoveries I've made that I think a large portion of you will find quite interesting. Before we dive into all the little color intricacies, there's a few things I need to go over so we're all on the same page. The colors I will be talking about today are from the Kzenbond release of the manga.

[00:01:08]Back when Dragon Ball was being made, it originally was released in the Weekly Shonen Jump. And in that original release, Akira Toriyama would occasionally produce full color pages instead of black and white. There were usually two different kinds of color pages, those being a limited palette where he would only use a few colors.

[00:01:26]most predominantly being red, while alternatively he would sometimes go all out and do full color pages where everything is assumably being colored accurately. In this video, we will mostly talk about the full color pages as they are seemingly the original intended colors for our characters. It's worth noting that when Dragon Ball was printed in volume form, it came out in the Tonkabond release, which didn't print in color. As a result, many fans are unaware of these color pages, but the much later released Kzenbond would restore them. That being where I'm getting them from. My other source for color is the Daisenu, which features many illustrations done by Akira Toriyama that don't feature in the manga itself, mostly being images that would have appeared on the cover of Weekly Shonen Jump. And finally, my last disclaimer is there is one other release of the manga that came out years later.

[00:02:17]That being the digital color version of the manga. Often when I bring up color pages from Dragon Ball, people assume they're from this release. Well, they're not. All of the colors I'm going to talk about today are from the original run of the manga. And finally, to try and alleviate some of the comments about this, you may have seen people talking about an interview where Toriyama said he doesn't really think too hard about the colors and just grabs whatever color he has available. I've tried to look into this and this is what I was able to find. He literally says that it's unintentional. It's not that he lacks the paint or arbitrarily decides to change the color. He basically said that he doesn't go back and check, so sometimes he makes mistakes. Okay, so with that in mind, let's dive into the confusing colors of Dragon Ball. But first, I heard along the grapevine that if you hit the like or subscribe buttons, they change color. All right, so first things first, Bulma's hair.

[00:03:09]Upon opening the first page of the story, oh, it's blue. And even going further in, it's still blue. Not to mention, while it's not blue in the limited palette sections, it kind of looks blue to me. It's not until chapter 3 that we actually get purple hair Bulma. Looking at all this, it's not at all surprising to me that the anime thought her hair was supposed to be blue. I wouldn't be surprised if Toriyama himself originally intended for it to be blue, but changed his mind later. Now, while Bulma's hair fluctuates, we also have another confusing case with Goku's ghee. You all know that Goku's original ghee was blue, right? Well, that appears to be the case at the start of the manga, but quickly after that, and in most color pages, Goku's ghee is usually colored in with orange. I'm not sure why this was the case. It's possible Toriyama changed his mind, similarly to with Bulma, but this one is a bit more confusing. While we see orange a lot more, including even his appearance on the cover of the first volume, we also do still see blue occasionally on some later illustrations. Not to mention in the black and white portions we see Goku's clothes are inked in black while his later canonically orange ghee wouldn't be filled in and would remain white. So my best guess is he originally wanted to change Goku's ghee to orange and just did it. But then later on when he had Roshi give Goku a new outfit, he just made that one officially orange and retroactively decided that the old one could stay blue. But that's just my speculation. Speaking on that orange outfit Roshi gave Goku, that is the single biggest color mistake in the series because the anime took the red color from the limited palette section and made that the color of the turtle school ghee in the anime. While in the manga, whenever we see it in a full color section, it appears as the much lighter orange that we expect from Goku later on. Along with Goku's outfit being depicted incorrectly in the anime, the same applies to Jackie Chun. His outfit is fully inked in, making it look black.

[00:05:05]But we would eventually see it on a Shonen Jump cover, and there it's revealed to be blue, making the black version from the anime incorrect. The anime wouldn't actually start until the manga was around the Red Ribbon Army arc. So, it's not like the official colors of the manga hadn't been revealed yet. So, who knows why they did what they did. Similarly to Jackie Chun, the iconic outfit you think of when I say Master Roshi actually never appears in color at any point in the manga. The only time we get colors for that outfit is on a Shonen Jump cover, and on said cover, he wears orange pants with a green top. On the topic of Master Roshi, it's worth mentioning that the anime gave us Kame House's iconic pink color scheme early into the anime, but much later around the start of Dragon Ball Z, during a color section, Toriyama made Kame House blue for some reason. So, you could argue that's the more manga accurate color scheme. Now, before I move on to the next part of the story, I should mention that in the manga, Yamcha's colors have always been consistent. However, we actually have a color appearance of Yamcha on a shownen jump cover before he appeared in full color in the manga proper. And on that cover, he was wearing purple and yellow.

[00:06:15]So, this was likely his original color scheme before Toriyama changed his mind.

[00:06:19]The anime colors for Chi-Chi and her father are actually different in the manga than they are in the anime, but the anime likely came out before Toriyama made this color illustration of them. Moving on, we get to see Tao Pi pie in a cover image, primarily in pink, and the anime clearly based its color scheme on this illustration. The problem with that is it's clearly a limited palette page. Much later during the 23rd Tenkai, we would get our only full color page to include Tao. And on said page, he wears a much orer outfit with green arms. Along with Tao, we get General Red with red hair in a limited pallet section early on, but then later in full color, we get a white-haired General Red, which is weird since he could have just kept the hair white in the limited pallet section. Seems to me like he likely forgot. Moving on to the fortune teller Baba portion. Baba herself consistently has white hair in the manga, not purple. On a color page, we see that Krillin's orange temple outfit is actually orange with blue pants, which isn't what the anime went with, but that's tame compared to Master Roshi, cuz in the non-color pages, we see Roshi is wearing a light top with dark pants, but then on the color page, he's wearing Jackie Chun's full blue.

[00:07:29]Following him, we get his original student, Gohan, and he has green arms in the manga that the anime would change to black. Goku then goes to get the last Dragon Ball from Peloff, and we see that the peel off machine is orange. The anime changed this and colorcoordinated each piece with their respective pilot, which, you know, I kind of like this one. Good call, anime. Back on Papaya Island, we see a return of Jackie Chun, and he's still wearing blue, not black.

[00:07:55]And alongside him is Ten Shinhan with purple pants. If you keep up with my community posts, then you would know that I talked about this a little while ago. This one, along with one other that we'll get to, really sparked me to make this video in the first place. Because despite his purple pants that would be adapted into the anime, Toriyama would change his mind and make them green in the next color section. Now, unlike Kid Goku's blue versus orange, both green and purple would be filled in with black in non-color pages, so we can't really use that for a distinction here. Now, in the Piccolo arc, we can talk about a pretty well-known one, that being Piccolo's orange arms, which are consistent throughout all of his appearances. But in the anime, when he restored his youth, they turned pink, representing his restored vitality.

[00:08:37]However, in the manga, they remain orange. Along with Piccolo, his minions are depicted in all green in the anime.

[00:08:44]But in the manga, we see that Drum has a beige stomach. Now for a pretty fun one.

[00:08:49]This is Master Karin's first color appearance, and he's blue with some white spots. Now, this is pretty weird cuz blue is normally filled in with black in the non-color pages, but Karin was always all white. Assuming the funniest possible way this happened, Toriyama might have confused Karin with Puar, but I guess it's possible that this is an intentional reference.

[00:09:09]However, we get two more color pages of Karin in the manga. Firstly, being on that long image you get when you put all of the volumes together on a shelf. You know what color Karin is there? That's right, blue. But I did say two more.

[00:09:22]What about the other one? Well, obviously they finally fixed his colors, right? Well, yes, he's finally brown.

[00:09:29]What? That's not what you were expecting. So, yeah. Now, I should probably mention Goku's skin tone at some point. There's the semi- misconception that Goku had dark skin in the manga. Now, while it's true Goku was sometimes painted with a much darker skin tone, the vast majority of the time he's given the lighter tone we're all used to, a lot of the darker skin tone shots are also only from the limited palette sections and not full color. So, I wouldn't say Goku having darker skin is actually manga accurate.

[00:09:58]Moving on to the third tournament, we see Goku with a black undershirt and belt in the anime. However, in the manga, we see that they were actually blue the entire time. And with that, Goku's outfit essentially stays exactly the same for the rest of the series, with one notable exception. Goku's boots change quite a bit. At first, they look black, and this happens a few times, but I don't think they were ever supposed to be black. I think they were just supposed to have a leathery texture that makes them look darker while still being blue. But in this initial picture, they also have red lines with a yellow ankle tie. Then on a volume cover, we see them as blue with white lines and a yellow ankle tie. Then two volumes later, they finally reach their final form, being blue with red lines and a yellow tie.

[00:10:44]Huh? Was Piccolo supposed to have red eyes?

[00:10:47]Now, of course, the anime has to throw their hat in the mix, having a completely different appearance, having yellow lines with a red tie. I have a theory about this. Because the anime changed Goku's orange ghee to red, they might have not wanted the red lines on Goku's boots to overlap with his red outfit. So, they swapped the red and yellow. And finally, Piccolo Jr.

[00:11:08]maintains the orange arm bits from his father, but the anime would continue to make them pink. Also, another misconception is that the anime miscolored Piccolo's belt with it being red in the manga, but blue in the anime.

[00:11:20]However, Piccolo's blue belt actually comes from his original fullcolor appearance in the manga, which is kind of odd, as technically red bell Piccolo appeared first on a Shonen Jump cover, and after this initial scene, it would go back to red. though it did briefly become blue again in this one illustration in the Android saga. Ah, a lastminute discovery I made while editing. If you actually look at the original cover, it cropped out Piccolo's belt. So, most people had no idea Piccolo's belt was originally red until years later when the Daisenu released the full illustration. So, it makes total sense the anime thought it was blue. Speaking of the anime, on to Z.

[00:11:57]Now, firstly, during the transition to Z, they fix a major mistake. That being the red turtle school ghee. It's finally orange, but the boot colors are still backwards. Along with that, we see the Piccolo as purple blood in the fight with Radits. Last arc, we gave him red blood, but the manga never actually had a color page to include Piccolo's blood.

[00:12:17]Notably, his pseudo brother, Drum, had purple blood, so it makes sense Piccolo himself would have the same. Now, another thing from this section is Piccolo is now wearing black with a purple belt opposed to purple with the red belt that we're used to. This is quite similar to King Piccolo's outfit.

[00:12:32]So, Toriyama might have just forgotten that he gave Piccolo Jr. a different color scheme here. And in that same section, we get what inspired me to make this video, Son Gohan. In this section, we see that Gohan's outfit is all green opposed to the yellow with a red hat and green arms from the anime. Then, alternatively to that, we get two illustrations of Goku and Gohan on the cover of Weekly Shonen Jump. And in both, Gohan has a red body with green hat and arms. Not even mentioning the one where he's blue. We'll get back to Gohan in a sec. But before that, Goku's boots are black again, but have white lines with a red tie now. Then the iconic green scouter Radit sports was actually blue in the manga. And a while after that, we get Vegeta's accurate color scheme, which the anime almost completely changed. But when the Saiyans arrived on Earth, they corrected it.

[00:13:21]Along with Vegeta, though, Goku's evershifting boots now have white lines with a white tie. Okay, back to Gohan.

[00:13:28]What if I told you Saiyan Saga Gohan's ghee was green? Cuz it was. Now, I'm sure this is somewhat contentious. No, he wore purple just like Piccolo. Well, my assumption on this is that the original intent was for Gohan's ghee to be green, just like how his original outfit was pure green. But at some point, Toriyama changed his mind cuz he would eventually put purple Gohan on the volume cover along with several appearances on Weekly Shonen Jump. It's not until the arrival on planet Namek though that we actually get an appearance of purple Gohan in the manga itself. However, if you've actually seen the show we're talking about, you would know that Gohan's original ghee was destroyed during the Saiyan saga, meaning this new one isn't the one made by Piccolo, but something we have to assume Gohan acquired in the days before he left. So, you could argue that Gohan's original ghee from the Saiyan saga was green, but was destroyed. And the one Gohan made himself was purple to honor his master. Going back a bit, in the same part as green Gohan, we see blue Yajerobrobe. I'm guessing Toriyama just forgot what color Yajirobe's outfit was, but you could argue it's just a different outfit. Another funny detail about Yajrobe is on that long image on the side of the manga. He's on it twice, and he has slightly different colors between his two appearances. Jumping into the Namek arc, we see Dende was originally wearing a green jacket, but the anime changed it to purple. Okay, Frieza. This one is pretty interesting.

[00:14:52]In his first full color appearance, his face and hands are pink, while the lines along the side of his face were actually brown, just like the bits on his arms and legs. Now, in the anime, he has a white face with pink face lines. But I wouldn't call this a random change from the anime because we see that color scheme on both a Shonen Jump cover and on the long volume side image. But even after that, when Frieza eventually calls the Ginu Force, we see that he is once again changed. Now his skin is pink again, but the face lines are a darker pink instead of the brown from before.

[00:15:23]And I feel like I should mention that despite Resurrection of F going with Frieza's lighter skin, when we got the Super Broly movie, they decided to go back and use his pinker skin tone from the manga. He sends the Ginyu force to take out our gang, and that results in Ginyu taking over Goku's body. In that section, we see Goku's boots have finally been restored to their original appearance with red lines and a yellow tie. And from here on, they stay that way. Along with Goku's boots, Ginu's scouter that was originally green was changed to yellow. Moving on, our next section isn't until the appearance of Final Form Frieza, where we see Krillin's Frieza Force tights were blue, not black like in the anime. And after that, we get the infamous Super Saiyan transformation, which had a few weird developments in the anime, like how they didn't know what it looked like during the Lord Slug movie, so they just did their own thing. or when during the development of the cooler movie, they almost gave it red eyes. This initially made me think it was just another example of the anime staff going with their best guess due to a lack of communication with Toriyama. However, it seems like this redeyed illustration was actually made by Toriyama, which kind of implies Toriyama had originally intended to give Super Saiyan red eyes, but changed his mind before Super Saiyan actually appeared in color during the manga itself. Leading into the next arc, the Android arc is where the anime finally switched Goku's inaccurate boots to the proper ones with red lines and a yellow tie. Meanwhile, in the manga, we get this shot of the gang. And this is the first appearance of purple-haired Trunks. This is accurate to both the anime and manga. So, it's all good, right? Well, no, because Trunks' hair is only purple to match his mother, Bulma.

[00:17:01]The issue being that Bulma's hair is blue in the anime, so now it doesn't match. Due to this, we would get several color pages as well as a volume cover with blue-haired trunks, but it would then swap back to purple later on. And of course, as you might expect, this is why we get blue-haired Trunks in the Super Anime that causes a host of its own continuity issues. Also, similarly to their hair, Bulma and Trunks' eye color is also quite complicated, as it usually matches their hair, but sometimes the hair is blue and the eyes are purple or vice versa. Now, amidst Trunks and Bulma's everchanging hair, we get this page that shows perfect Cell.

[00:17:37]And in this page, along with this other shown in Jump cover, we can see Cell has purple flesh between his joints. I point this out because many people think that part of Cell is blue in the manga, and the anime got this detail wrong, but that is not actually the case. The manga originally made them purple and would only change them to blue later on during the fight with Gohan. In that same section, we see a page showing the different stages of Gohan's life. And for the fifth time, his original outfit has a completely different color scheme.

[00:18:07]And finally, we move on to the Buu saga.

[00:18:09]I want to save the big one for last. So, we can start with Goten, Mr. Satan, and Buu. Buu is mostly consistent, but in one page, Buu is drawn with blue gloves and boots, but everywhere else, he's consistent. Alternatively, it seems like Toriyama can't decide on what color Mr. Satan wears. He switches back and forth between a purpley brown and gray several times. And of course, there's Goten, who consistently wears orange with all of his other parts being black, but the anime changed them to blue like his father. And one that I missed originally is Bobby's dress being white instead of blue like in the anime. There's also this shot at the very end of the manga that flashes back to Goku and Bulma's initial meeting. Strangely though, it uses Bulma's pink shirt from the anime, but in the manga, her shirt was never pink. It was always orange. And something that isn't necessarily right or wrong, but I disagree with is Vegito.

[00:19:00]The anime gives him a blue ghee with a blue belt, but Goku and Vegeta wear almost the exact same shade of blue.

[00:19:06]This lighter blue color isn't present on either of them. And Vegito's belt was always left white. It would make far more sense to assume Vegito's belt was supposed to be orange. Oh, and his Potara are wrong. Old Kai's Potara were green in the manga, and those are the Potara used for Vegito. So, Vegeta's earrings were green in the manga, not yellow. Finally, I'm actually really excited to cover this. You know how Supreme Kai has his original manga colors in Da? Well, actually, he doesn't. The anime actually does faithfully adapt Supreme Kai's color scheme from the manga. And for the entire run of the manga, all of the Supreme Kai outfits we see are the exact same color, from our main Kaioshin to Old Kai to even Gohan when he wore it.

[00:19:49]So, if the anime version of Supreme Kai is actually manga accurate, why does he look like this in Daima? Well, remember all of the stuff I said about how the manga was released at the start of this video? We originally got the Tonkaban, which was its original release outside of Weekly Shonen Jump, but it lacked all the color. Then, from 2002 to 2004, they re-released the manga in the Kzenbond, which included the color pages. This release came out eight years after the series concluded. But for each volume, Akira Toriyama did new art for the front and back for each volume. As you likely suspect, that is where the color scheme for Dragon Ball Da originates. You might say, "Well, Toriyama decided to change it. So that's the official color scheme." Now, well, if that's how you feel, then let me share with you some other official changes Toriyama made to these covers. like Kid Goku from the start of the series wearing brown and black or Tao pie in yellow and blue. We see Kid Goku wearing the outfit he stole from Shu. But in the manga, we see that Shu's outfit was all black, so not quite the same. Radit's outfit is now more yellow than the brown he originally had, and his blue scouter has changed to green. While we see blue King Kai, which is actually Blue King's first manga appearance ever. I only found two color pages including King Kai from the original run. One being from the long image on the side of the volumes where he's white and is wearing green with yellow arms. And the second where we see him next to brown Corin. This time he has essentially the same clothing but he's pink. Now after King Kai we get yellow Dora and this Dr. Churro with a white undershirt. After him we see Mr. Satan. And because we never saw Mr. Satan in color during the Cell Saga, this is our only point of reference for his outfit in that era. Following him, we get the cover with Supreme Kai. But strangely, on the backside, we see that Dborah and Bobi have also been changed to be wearing white and black, followed by another cover with all of the Kais and Gohan wearing the Kai outfit, all changed to this new color scheme. So, I think it's perfectly reasonable for you to assume this is the manga color scheme of Supreme Kai. But if you think that, then start of series Goku was canonically wearing brown and Dorya was yellow. Not to mention the same cover with Daima's Supreme Kai colors also changed Bobi and Dborah's colors on the backside, but both of them appear in their original color scheme in Da instead of the version from this cover.

[00:22:11]So, I personally choose to say Supreme Kai's Da colors were a bit of an oversight. Now, how can I make a video about colors in Dragon Ball without mentioning the horrendous film damage present on the official release of the anime? Due to Dragon Ball being an older series and Tolli not taking the proper steps to preserve the original film, a lot of the show's original colors started to degrade over time. Dragon Ball's film damage and how poorly it's been handled is honestly deserving of its own entire video. But just know the show wasn't supposed to look the way it does most of the time. For me, it's especially noticeable in the Boo Saga, where everything looks like it's been bathed in green paint. Luckily for us, a dedicated fan group called Seed of Might has taken the time to painstakingly go through and color correct the entire series, which took them several years to accomplish. So, you're somewhat awkwardly going to get a more authentic Dragon Ball experience from fan remasters than the official release, as Tolli Animation themselves are unwilling to go through the same restorative process that the fans did. And the final bonus section of adding to this video is to go through the digital color manga and talk about some of the odder color choices they made. And just to remind you, the digital color manga was made years after the series finished and had basically no involvement from Akira Toriyama. The first thing I'll say is a positive. When adapting the first arc of the story, instead of choosing to go with blue or purple for Bulma's hair, they just start out with blue hair, then swap over to purple at the same time Toriyama did himself. And the same applies to Goku's ghee. However, a finger of the monkeykey's paw curls as this color change included Goku's power pull case turning blue. And while it was blue during this early portion of the story, for the majority of early Dragon Ball, it goes back to being brown.

[00:23:55]Despite that, due to it becoming blue here, the color manga keeps it blue for the entire manga, despite brown being much more accurate. The color manga's version of Master Roshi is kind of odd.

[00:24:07]Like we mentioned earlier, the most accurate color for Kame Senna's outfit is actually green. However, the color manga decided to go with the more recognizable color scheme from the anime. But then later on, for Jackie Chun's outfit, instead of using the blue from the original manga or the black from the anime, it just decides to make his outfit purple. Meanwhile, for his house, it's not the anime pink nor the manga blue. For some reason, they made it beige. Ox King's appearance in the digital color manga is entirely unique.

[00:24:36]Not following the color schemes from the anime or the original manga. Early on, despite the Kamehameha being white in the manga and blue in the anime, the color manga just does its own thing and makes it orange.

[00:24:49]When adapting Shu, instead of his outfit being black and yellow like the original manga, the color manga goes with the purple color from the anime. When Krillin shows up, they give him a completely unique color scheme different from the original manga and the anime.

[00:25:03]Good launch is given very dark hair despite her hair in the original manga and anime being very bright. In the tournament, Ranfan's digital color manga colors actually are in the original manga, but this page is arguably half palette and not full color. And later on, when we see the return of the Kamehameha, it's now yellow opposed to the orange that was used in the first arc. Now, in the Kirin's Tower portion of the story, we see that Tao and Karin are both given their anime color schemes opposed to the different ones from the original manga. But when we get to the fortune teller Baba Tournament, they use Baba and Gohan's original manga color schemes and not the anime ones. It almost feels like they just flip a coin to decide what they feel like going with in any given arc. Now, as we discussed earlier, Pent and Shinhan originally changed colors from purple to green midway through the arc. However, the color manga just decides to use green from the start.

[00:25:58]Into the Piccolo saga, the color manga gives all of Piccolo's spawn the beige chest color like the original manga opposed to the pure green from the anime. Now, for a pretty controversial one, despite all of the confusion about Goku's boots, it becomes pretty clear that the iconic look with red lines and yellow ties is the definitive most correct version. Despite that, the color manga for some reason commits to white lines and red ties and sticks to that for the remainder of the manga. Now firmly into Z, when Radits appears, we go with his green scouter from the anime opposed to his original blue one, which makes you think they decided to go with the anime color scheme, but no, cuz his armband is silver like in the manga, not in the anime where it's red. So, Radits is a weird combination of his manga and anime color schemes.

[00:26:48]And when we get to King Kai, we just go with the anime colors. Now, here's a funny one. For some reason, in Dragon Ball Z, we finally changed Roshi's iconic outfit to be green like it is on the Shonen Jump cover, despite being orange for the entire original run. By the way, the color manga didn't just make the Kamehameha yellow. Nearly all energy attacks are yellow now, including Vegeta's ga gun. However, they made a few exceptions like the special beam cannon was made purple despite being one of the few techniques that actually was yellow and the spirit bomb was allowed to remain blue. On Namek, Frieza is given his anime color scheme instead of his manga one. The color manga does this thing where it makes all the auras white, but then turns a bit yellow when they go full power, which also applies to Super Saiyan, which is another thing accurate to the original manga. The colors they use for Trunks' time machine is actually accurate to the time machine's only color appearance during the original run of the manga. Now, alternatively to Frieza, who uses the anime colors, Cell is kind of weird.

[00:27:49]Starting with his second form, all they did was change his chin strap to yellow instead of orange and made his eyes red.

[00:27:55]Despite it being a small part of him, it really makes a difference with both elements likely being taken from Perfect Cell's color scheme. Now, when we get to Perfect Cell, we see that they went with the blue flash joints instead of purple.

[00:28:07]Into the Bu Saga, Gohan's Buaga Gee is weird. Toriyama did a ton of alternative color schemes for it, but the one the color manga decided to go with only appears once on a Shonen Jump cover.

[00:28:19]Now, Supreme Kai is clearly adapting his color appearance in the original manga, giving him very pink skin. However, there's also this cover page where he has more purple skin. So, I still think it's more accurate to say Supreme Kai's original manga self was purple like in the anime. When Bobi appears, his dress is white instead of blue, being accurate to Bob's color appearance in the original manga. One part of the digital manga that really bothers me is the initial Super Saiyan 3 fight, in which Toriyama uses half tones to really sell how imposing the aura of Super Saiyan 3 was. However, the color manga doesn't do any work to sell the shifting color on Super Saiyan 3, just coloring him like any normal Goku, instead of using extra highlights like were present in the original manga. And finally, the color manga actually fixes that one flashback image and makes Bulma's outfit orange like it originally was instead of the anime pink. I'm honestly not sure how to feel about the color manga. It feels like a complete crapshoot what they decide to go with. It's an utter hodgepodge of anime and manga color schemes mixed together with a few of its own random changes sprinkled in. All right, that was a lot of colors. It's interesting how the colors changed as we went along. And I'm shocked by how many of these I was unaware of before making this. I totally understand that a lot of these were minor and Toriyama probably just didn't really care that much, but I thought it was a pretty interesting topic to go over and hopefully you thought so, too. As an artist, I'm a big fan of color theory and such, and I love most of the color choices from the Dragon Ball series. So, all I have to say is I hope you have a great day, and I'll see you next time.