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File: a01b0e431a83268⋯.jpg (146.95 KB, 633x486, 211:162, akira in color.jpg)

 No.92608

Just how rare is this exactly? Are there others besides Akira?

 No.92618

Akira is not full color.


 No.92628

>>92618

There is a full color version tho

>Akira [Colorized]


 No.92629

File: 09d04f379058bf6⋯.png (3.03 MB, 1560x1200, 13:10, img000007.png)

If "colorized after the fact" counts, might as well mention the other really famous one right now.


 No.92634

>>92608

It's rare because black and white pages are much cheaper. Since it's cheaper, you could also push more pages in a chapter / story basis rather than basing the whole issue on the allocated page count of the magazine.The authors are usually already taxed on following schedules as it is.

You get coloured post-releases like >>92629 because reprints and digital artists are a thing.


 No.92635

File: c1b3243dc602c5b⋯.jpg (186.26 KB, 900x476, 225:119, 2726258-shonen_jump_volume….jpg)

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File: 2b083f8308b8e6f⋯.jpg (97.47 KB, 576x768, 3:4, 6119_900.jpg)

>>92628

It was colored by americans for a US release. It has nothing to do with Otomo or the original manga. They did a digital "re-coloring" for virtually every popular manga by now, from Naruto to Jojo.

To answer your question, an actual full color manga is extremely rare. For one thing, it's very time consuming - unlike american comics, japanese manga is created entirely by the author himself aided by a small team of assistants, and sometimes not even that. Then there's also a matter of release, the most popular manga are the weekly ones, it's impossible to produce a fully colored chapter every week by a team of ~4 people, though there are a few precedence of an author at the peak of his craft doing a fully colored chapter, for example, Kubo did one for Bleach at the end of the Soul Society arc - https://mangadex.org/chapter/50517/3

As for monthly, bi-monthly and so on manga, there are a few examples here and there, for instance, Saint Seiya Next Dimension - https://mangadex.org/chapter/411531/1

There's a matter of publication as well, all manga are first published in magazines, which are printed with cheap recyclable paper and look like absolute shit. Later manga is reprinted in individual volumes with good paper. But that's actually one of the main reasons why manga is black and white, it's cheap to produce. And considering how much manga is produced on a daily, that's a serious matter. Imagine a >500 page magazine with all color pages, or hundreds of manga volumes released each month that are all colored and require good paper to boot.

There is also such a thing as bichrome manga, when the third color - red and its shades - is added to the mix, resulting in a faux "colored" look. This was practiced largely in the 80s and 90s, not so much now.


 No.92638

on a related note, what's the status on licensed manga with poor quality?


 No.92639

>>92638

What do you mean?


 No.92642

>>92635

>It has nothing to do with Otomo or the original manga.

Not true, he met with the colorizer and even directly redrew some panels so they made more sense when changed from left to right.


 No.92646

File: 75f74ff9ad763d5⋯.jpg (254.42 KB, 1200x810, 40:27, Dyz0iEpUUAAh-HR.jpg)

>>92642

Makes no difference. That's like saying that a mangaka meeting with the director of a holyjew adaptation and being asked to do something for the occasion - like draw some promotional art for it or something - makes him involved with it.


 No.92647

There's a Dragon Ball rerelease.


 No.92837

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