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These were published in bulk in December 2012, as part of the Jump Comics Digital imprint. They've done several Digital Colored Comics series now. According to Viz's publication of Dragon Ball Full Color, colorization is handled by Shueisha's production team. Probably under some supervision from Kishimoto or his editors. They also obviously contain the original color pages by Kishimoto, which are grayscaled in the standard tankobon. In either case, the place they hold in canon, such as it is, would probably be ahead of the anime adaptation.

It's also notable that the colorization adheres to Kishimoto's style, so, for example the colors and shading technique are the same, which makes them look pretty authentic.

Unfortunately, they're not that easy to download outside of Japan. They're available through most major Japanese ebook publishers, but most require a Japanese credit card or some sort of proprietary e-reader or app that's only available domestically.

I've considered unregistering my Android tablet from Amazon.com so that I could purchase them from Amazon Japan, but even then you can apparently only make 5 purchases from outside of Japan before triggering their anti-fraud stuff, at which point you have to go through this confirmation process.

The NicoNico manga shop might work, since I believe you can purchase NicoPoints with WebMoney.

Not that I can afford to buy them all. I did use some software to rip the free preview chapters of all 59 volumes, however. I can upload them when I get home.