Yes, if you watched the original Z (and not Kai), Vegeta always had this color scheme. This was the color palette that Vegeta (and Nappa, as his armor isn't quite the same color as it was depicted with when they reached Earth) were originally depicted when first shown, as those first episodes were animated prior to the first full. Reportedly, there were no officially published color images of Vegeta at the time, as Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball Z manga was published only in black and white.
Toei's red-haired Vegeta stuck around for a few early episodes of DBZ's "Raditz" saga before being replaced with the character's current and best. In this classic S.H.Figuarts rendition of Vegeta, he appears as you've only seen him in the original anime! Flash back to when Vegeta had reddish-brown hair and a completely different green and orange coloring for his Saiyan combat suit. Set comes with a rich variety of accessories for the ultimate action figure experience!
The first few episodes of the anime that depicted Vegeta were animated prior to his first colored appearance within the manga, and Toriyama had yet to give Toei Animation the color schemes for either him or Nappa. It was filler and the anime didn't have vegeta's original hair color. Also in the colored manga his scouter was green instead of red.
Reply reply Magnusthelast. However, with people that I've already drawn in color before, I generally don't go back and check, so sometimes I end up using different colors than I did before. (laughs) In the anime, its probably also for shading, since Vegeta's jet.
The episodes of the original Z anime, before Vegeta and Nappa came to Earth, were animated prior to Toriyama having depicted them with color in the manga and prior to Toriyama having given Toei Animation the intended color palettes for the characters. Vegeta - Dragon Ball Z Cartoon Color Scheme The Vegeta - Dragon Ball Z Cartoon Color Scheme has 6 colors, which are Corn (#F9EE54), American Yellow (#F3A903), Windsor Tan (#A56106), Lumber (#FFE1CD), New Car (#2955DC) and Space Cadet (#181463). The RGB and CMYK values of the colors are in the table below along with the closest RAL and PANTONE® numbers.
Click on a color chip to view shades. These original colors for Vegeta's outfit actually always looked fairly great! 🔥🔥🔥 Now, as for the color of his hair, I actually once saw this fan headcanon that I personally believe perfectly explains why his hair looks black in certain illustrations and why it looks like a dark brown/dark reddish brown/dark red in certain others. Here is another SDCC 2014 exclusive on Japanese side of thing.
Tamashii Nations for the S.H.Figuarts series will be releasing the original Animation color Vegeta Some call this repaint which you are not wrong to say that. However before we jump into any conclusion we should think why is there such repaint?