One Piece Colored Vs Black And White Reddit

So I want to start reading One-piece, I was wondering if it would be best to read the colored of the original black and white manga? Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. For one piece, oda jam packs a bunch of stuff in there but still manages to make it coherent and readable so I never have an issue with it.

A manga like jojos on the other hand is virtually impossible to read black and white because it's cluttered and doesn't know how to handle it. For some early parts of the manga the scans I can find are a little fuzzy in the quality, but the colored has good quality the whole way through. But I feel one piece was meant to be read in black and white.

Which should I do? As someone who's reading background included more western comics, I almost almost prefer color to black and white. Somewhat easier to see what's happening, and color adds another dimension to the art imo that shading does not always achieve.

Don't get me wrong there is good shading but the colored versions simply look better to me. I like black and white because that's how it's intended and Oda uses some very awesome stylized panels with black and white contrasts or grey shading etc. He has truly mastered the art of black and white comics.

But the colored is very nice looking and easier to read quickly and see things clearly so no problem with going with that either. I think reading colored manga first is better. Quality of black'n'white One Piece scans before Oda switched to digital drawing is pretty ish IMO.

Colored version fixes it. However, since Oda switched to digital, black'n'white version is better IMO. It has all the details and amazing original Oda drawings.

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I'm too used to the black/white look and some colored versions could look weak and soulless af in comparison. I have not read too much of the digital colored version, so I can not say how accurate the translations are, but I highly recommend reading it in black and white. I feel there is a lot of detail in the art of the original that I feel is lost in the colored version.