anything in color?

[geteg]

hiyas. ok so i am a new anime fan and was thinkin about getting into manga. but are all these manga and graphic novels only in black and white? ive been reading comics for years eand im so used to color its hard to enjoy manga. they just seem flat and lifeless and are boring to look at lol. so are there any good manga or graphic novels in color? or is color just not the manga style? thanks. =)

[hiei_kurama27]

Yes, manga is black & white. But, there is ani-manga which is color, where the panels look just like the anime, but go in a comic format. The only title I know of for those is Inuyasha, but maybe someone else knows some others.

But reading it in b&w is fun, you can imagine what colors clothing and items can be, and more.

[Manafairy]

Stigma by Kazuya Minekura is done entirely in color (it's absolutely beautiful too, just for the record), and I'm sure there are a small handful of other titles as well, but generally speaking, manga is a black and white medium. You might get a fully colored page or two at the beginning of a lot of graphic novels, but the vast majority of the comic will be in black and white.

That's just the way it is. They tend to "color" in screen tones rather than, well, color, probably due partially to time constraints (as many stories are serialized in weekly or monthly magazines), and due more so because it's the generally accepted style of manga. If you absolutely must have color, then you may want to stick with anime, but while it doesn't sound that good in theory, the black and white is generally done well enough to make up for its lack of color, so it won't come off as flat or lifeless.

[Funkmasta]

Just get used to it.
Thats no reason to not read a comic...
Plenty of the best American comics are B+W, Sin City, any collected form of newspaper comics, Maus, R.Crumb. etc...

[cherryice]

It took me a little while to get used to, but I love it now.

Hayao Miyazaki's movies have been adapted into animanga, so you might want to check out Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away. I personally really enjoyed Howl's.

[soulreaper]

Well, there's Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie (I think that's what it is called), if you're into that kind of stuff. But really, just get used to black and white. You'll find that what it lacks in color it makes up for in detail.

[Animematt55]

Manga in color is blasphemy! Stop whining about it, and jsut read it.

[Gasaraki]

One thing is also how the publishers deal with it. A good amount of manga is made weekly or biweekly in Japan and there is no where near enough time for 16-20 page chapters with full color. Most of hte time in the cases of those manga, if something is in color it's either a very special moment or just a volume opening or something.

[goddessofanime]

usually in the first one or two pages, when introducing a chapter, some publishers do them in color.

But for the most part, it's black and white babe. If you don't like it, then go back to reading comics.

[Piper]

i think its called kwaijin or somthing simmilar but it only come out with one volume that i know of i found at barnes and noble and it has an amazingly religios and symbolic kinda story. i liked alot. maybe one of you know what im talking about..?

[Suiko Eiji]

Stigma by Kazuya Minekura is done entirely in color (it's absolutely beautiful too, just for the record), and I'm sure there are a small handful of other titles as well, but generally speaking, manga is a black and white medium. You might get a fully colored page or two at the beginning of a lot of graphic novels, but the vast majority of the comic will be in black and white.

That's just the way it is. They tend to "color" in screen tones rather than, well, color, probably due partially to time constraints (as many stories are serialized in weekly or monthly magazines), and due more so because it's the generally accepted style of manga. If you absolutely must have color, then you may want to stick with anime, but while it doesn't sound that good in theory, the black and white is generally done well enough to make up for its lack of color, so it won't come off as flat or lifeless.

One thing is also how the publishers deal with it. A good amount of manga is made weekly or biweekly in Japan and there is no where near enough time for 16-20 page chapters with full color. Most of hte time in the cases of those manga, if something is in color it's either a very special moment or just a volume opening or something.

To expand on these more, because this sums most of it up pretty well, than in the weekly and bi-weekly serials, not only are there time constraints, there are also one chapter of around 20+ titles a week printed on newsprint type of paper and want to keep the magazines priced around 400~450 yen, cutting the color ink also keeps costs down.

So, to echo what everyone else is saying, 99.9% of all manga are published in black and white.

[KazumaII]

There are the Master Editons of Fist of the North Star. They where released by Rajin in a special color format for an anv. But, are out of print and hard to find and stopped at graphic novel number 10.

[Jatz]

I think both Ghost in the Shells were in full color.

[ghed]

I think both Ghost in the Shells were in full color.

If you mean the two by Shirow Masamune then they are not entirely colored. The first one has the first 5 pages of every chapter colored w/ the rest in b&w. Man Machine Interface is probably 75% colored though. They're both kinda pricey for manga too >_< (but worth it imo)

[Onsokubatsu]

As was mentioned, some books have a few color pages, but many companies like Viz and Tokyopop tend to just print them in black and white, which sucks. But the main thing to realize here is that manga comes out a lot quicker than American comics. Many serialized series will have a new installment every week. So there really isn't much time to make everything in color. Also, the black and white aspect are what makes manga so much more cheaper. Do you really want to spend $4 for maybe 30 pages of full color images where about a thrid of it is ads? Ok, there's not that many ads, but there are a lot in every comic.

[frenchgrl76]

Yeah, some of them actually have colors. Once I colored one of my mangas, but just for fun. I ended up regreting doing that, but then I forgot about it and I did not care that much about it.

[Onsokubatsu]

Yeah, some of them actually have colors. Once I colored one of my mangas, but just for fun. I ended up regreting doing that, but then I forgot about it and I did not care that much about it.


Next time, try using the computer for that. I tried it a few times by scanning images into the computer and adding color digitally with Photoshop with fair results. And on the plus side, you don't end up destroying your manga.

[frenchgrl76]

Well, I read the whole manga before actually coloring it...

[Undrave]

Hey another Canadian!


Personally I like it in black and white, sometime I find that comic books all in color look way too...busy...and hard to read.

Plus black and white makes it cheaper and faster.

[Magdalena]

Robot, which is a full color collection of chapters of manga from artists like Range Murata and Yoshitoshi Abe is really beautiful from what I've seen from flipping through it. I haven't had the chance to buy it yet, but I will very soon. I can't recall seeing any other full colored manga, but I don't think it's really a big deal.