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 manga, black and white except JoJos and One Piece.
I'm too used to the black/white look and some colored versions could look weak and soulless af in comparison. Digitally Colored Manga Starting in June 2012, Shueisha began to release digitally colored volumes of the One Piece manga. The volumes are available to purchase alongside the traditional black and white volumes in Shueisha's own Jump Store app for iOS and Android, as well as other digital outlets such as Amazon's Kindle Store.
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. In the black and white print I had to zoom a little on the picture to pic apart pieces of Lucci's body from Luffy's punches.
However in the colored version. Everything is as clear as day and the background gets seperated from the foreground by using the colors. Kinda surprised that people actually picks black and white lol.
Anyway, it depends. If the colorings is just "fanart" coloring (like what OPScans did for chapter 1081 where they colored the whole chapter itself) then I wouldn't really like it as some of the panels got ruined due to bad coloring mixed. Should I read Steel Ball Run in color? Welcome to r/OnePiece, the community for Eiichiro Oda's manga and anime series One Piece.
From the East Blue to the New World, anything related to the world of One Piece belongs here! Lately we have noticed a considerable increase of people who confuse monochrome (or black and white) manga with grayscale. 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.
The black and white really hits with certain manga panels but in terms of understanding what's happening have the ability to distinguish between colors really helps. 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.