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@Elveonora There's no reason to assume that Kishi has any involvement in this. Colouring all those pages would take a lot of time, he's already busy doing one black and white chapter each week. It's far more likely that someone else is given that task, but that in no way discounts their usefulness. It's an official source, just like the anime. If it has a coloured version of an image we need then there's no reason we shouldn't use it, but we should scrutinise it as we do the anime.

Going by what they've made freely available I've noticed a couple of things. One is that some things are miscoloured (see the Hokage in the first chapter). (EDIT: Turns out its not miscoloured, its based on the colouring of Volume 14's cover). There also seems to be quite a significant gap between the release of the standard volumes and these coloured versions. As far as I can tell they seem to be well behind the anime which may limit their usefulness somewhat.