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BeyondRed wrote: I managed to buy a few of these, and overall they're really nice, but maybe not the definitive correct colour guide some were hoping for. For anybody curious about some of the colouring decisions: Interesting, though it would make sense for the author to change colors as time progresses as people change and forget things. Thank for updating us on that
 * They went the anime route with chakra and made it a generic colour (pinkish in the Land of Waves arc, the anime's light blue for the rest). However, Rasengan and its variants are always yellow, regardless of the user.
 * Sometimes Kishimoto's coloured pages have been inconsistent. For some of these instances, they picked a "side" and stuck with it: Gaara's hair and Jiraiya's markings are always red, reincarnated people have their regular skin tone instead of pale/grey. For others, they start with one colouring scheme and then abruptly switch to the other: the Hokage outfit starts out grey but changes to the familiar red by the Konoha Crash, Shukaku's cursed seal changes from blue to black and then stays that way.
 * For whatever reason, they chose to go with the anime colours over the manga colours for certain things: Ino's eyes are blue, Tailed Beast Ball is red+blue=purple (as of Volume 53 at least), the Hashirama-clone-flower is brown and purple, and the Kin-Gin Brothers have their anime colour schemes.
 * Other times they corrected the anime's mistakes: the Kazekage's outfit is green, Itachi's Susanoo and A's Raiton Armour are both yellow, Mystical Palm is blue, Sakon/Ukon and Tayuya have their correct hair colours, Konan and Yahiko have correct eye/piercing colours, B's tattoos are black, Melting Apparition is more orange, and Naruto's eyes are red while fighting Kakuzu.
 * Some other little anomalies: Version 1 is orange (likely based on Volume 40's back cover), but Naruto's "initial form" and Version 2 are still red. When a reincarnated person's personality is suppressed, their eyes turn red and black instead of white and black. Kakuzu's masks have the same colours as in the anime, but his manga-only fifth(?!) mask is entirely white.