Important takeaways
- Several full-color manga series offer stunning art and world-building, such as Nanbaka, Dragon Ball, and Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe.
- These visually powerful manga mix action, drama, and humor to create unique and impactful stories in color.
- Fans of manga classics like Yu Yu Hakusho and Akira can experience a new vivid reading experience in full color.
Full-color manga is hard to come by, but there are some comics worth reading if fans know where to look. Across all genres and stories to tell, several series have incredibly good art, high-quality world-building, and most importantly, a great use of color for visual storytelling.

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10 Best Full Color Manhwa You Should Read
There is a large variety of full color manhwa available for readers to check out. Here are some of the best.
From a retired Yakuza trying to make the most of his new life as a husband, to an immortal classic that every manga fan should read at least once in their life. These full-color manga are eye candy for those who love the eighth art.
Updated on November 27, 2024 by Lucas Simons: With the latest developments in the manga and anime industry, we have had a lot of changes where we can discover the rise in popularity of The Way of The Househusband and the resurgence of Dragon Ball thanks to the launch of Dragon Ball Daima. Many fans look up to these manga, and others wonder which full color manga to start reading. Well, we've come up with a few extra suggestions to add to the list, including a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Spin-Off that has become one of Araki's best works and is also available in full color.
1 Nanbaka
A prison story, with a satirical setting
- First publication date: October 13, 2013
- Author: Futamata Sho
- Genres: Comedy, Action, Drama, Satire
Visually powerful, stylish, polished art and a strange but wholesome story of prison survival: these are the things readers should expect when reading this series, and let me tell you, the full-color version edited by V is extremely good.
The combination of action, drama, and silliness makes it quite unique, especially since the author keeps mixing in some jabs at Shounen culture in the middle. Scene after scene, Futamata proves himself to be a wild and daring performer, managing to create something truly impactful, even if it sometimes lacks direction. But that's part of the charm of the series.
2 Dragon Ball
An all-time classic
- First publication date:
- Author: Akira Toriyama
- Genres: Action, Comedy, Shounen, Martial Arts
Dragon Ball and its subsequent series (Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super) has marked entire generations with incredible adventures of the quirky characters written and designed by Akira Toriyama. I had the pleasure of reading it again after so many years, now in full color, and I must say: It brought back many memories from my childhood.
The truth is, Dragon Ball is forever, and when the torch passed from Toriyama to Toyotaro, the series has never been in better hands. With Dragon Ball Daima garnering a large number of new followers from the younger generations, perhaps this is a good opportunity for readers to pick it up again, this time, in full color.
3 Thus spoke Rohan Kishibe
A spin-off full of JoJo's writerly goodness
- First publication date: July 7, 1997
- Author: Hirohiko Araki
- Genres: Action, Horror, Supernatural, Mystery, Art
This canon spin-off of the JoJo series comes from Diamon is Unbreakable, the first time we met Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist and writer with the ability to see other people's minds, past, present, future and innermost desires, like reading a book. When Araki created this series, he had to do so under strict measures of the editorial team where he published his flagship product, and could not directly call it a spin-off.
So he took inspiration from old detective and mystery series (particularly Hitchcock's work) and decided to turn Rohan into an omniscient narrator for the series. This gave it a rather peculiar and circuitous story, and this, combined with colorful and highly detailed art, turned out to be fantastic. Definitely worth reading, if not to be a fan of JoJo, maybe for the sole pleasure of enjoying a great series.
4 The houseman's way
A Yakuza makes the perfect man
- First publication date: 2018-02-22
- Author: Kōsuke Ōno
- Genres: Action, Comedy, Slice-Of-Life
The most dangerous Yakuza to ever roam the streets of Japan, known as the Immortal Dragon, is about to meet his maker when he is found and recovered by a salarywoman named Miko. In appreciation for saving her life, he decides to take care of her, but since he knows nothing but violence and housekeeping, he goes for the latter and becomes the perfect householder.

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10 anime and manga characters with superb fighting skills
The most powerful warriors in anime and manga are those who have acquired supreme fighting abilities, able to overcome all obstacles in their path.
A wildly funny story about a Yakuza trying to blend in with the shopping cart-filled lives of ordinary Japanese housewives, with a masterfully crafted sense of humor and many, many misunderstandings that add spice to the action. The houseman's way The full-color version is worth reading because it emphasizes the vibrant new lifestyle that the main character, Tatsu, takes on as a law-abiding citizen, while maintaining his own personality and fashion sense (aka still dressing like a gangster).
5 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Epic about a family and their fight for justice across generations
- First publication date: 1-1-1987
- Author: Hirohiko Araki
- Genres: Shonen, Seinen, Action, Battle-Manga, Fantasy
From the bulky Hamon user Jonathan Joestar to the youngest booth user Jodio Joestar, the JoJo family has evolved greatly throughout the continuity of the series. And so did its incredibly bizarre fight scenes. So it's only fitting that this manga be read in full color. With an unmatched composition and overwhelmingly loaded backgrounds JoJo's Bizarre Adventure the series is a must read for all fans of battle manga.
Featuring some of the most quirky characters fans will ever see, these series carefully straddle the fine line between satire and action drama in a unique and flamboyant style. Each JoJo fan has their favorite iteration of the series, and each new reader is sure to find their own as they flip through this overarching nine-part saga.
6 Parasite
They blend in with us, but they are here to replace us
- First publication date: 11/22/1988
- Author: Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Genres: Horror, Psychological, Action, Gore, Sci-Fi
If ever there was a more appropriate manga to color, that is Parasite. With a gloomy and dark world background design, and heavily focused on body horror, this manga deals with some seriously gory subjects. And while it is also quite philosophical and has deep and meaningful moments, it also relies heavily on its visual impact. It makes sense that a colored version of this series was made.

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Best Supernatural Horror Manhwa
Horror fans will love what the following supernatural manhwa brings to the table.
The strong bond between Shinichi (MC) and Migi, a strange creature attached to his right arm, is now depicted in its full glory, with soft pastel tones in the foreground and strong gloomy shades in the background. And of course, there's plenty of crimson splatter throughout, though its gore content is moderate considering there are far more badass comics in the genre. In other words, Parasite is ideal for horror fans who want to read in full color, without losing too much of the atmospheric sense of doom that is quite characteristic of horror manga.
7 Yu Yu Hakusho
The story of a criminal with a strong sense of justice who becomes a supernatural detective
- First publication date: 1992-12-10
- Author: Yoshihiro Togashi
- Genres: Shonen, Action, Supernatural, Adventure
The life of a Japanese school delinquent with a heart of gold comes to an abrupt end when he tries to protect a little boy from being hit by a car. He is brought back from limbo by Koenma and appointed as a spiritual detective and medium. Reimagined in full color, this supernatural action stunner looks more alive than ever. Some of the best scenes from the Dark Tournament and the Three Kings arc now truly showcase the grandeur of this all-time classic series.
Seeing Kurama's transformation for the first time in full color is breathtaking and showcases the difference between his human and demon side. Kuwabara's fight against the sacred beast Byakko is another big moment that can be seen in a new light when read in full color. Yu Yu Hakusho may already have its own Netflix adaptation, but nothing beats reading the original work page by page and experiencing Togashi's entire saga in color.
8 Akira
In a dystopian future, a government experiment goes horribly wrong
- First publication date: 12/20/1982
- Author: Katsuhiro Otomo
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Action, Drama, Tragedy, Cyberpunk
Visually striking, breathtaking, ominous and a cautionary tale with a clear message: never lose your grip on your humanity, or else. Akira is one of the most iconic manga of all time, depicting a dystopian cyberpunk future where humanity has lost morality to the point of no return. In the midst of this corrupt society, a group of misfits fight for a lost cause, unaware that they are being manipulated by a sinister villain who desires only one thing: power beyond human limits.
Neo-Tokyo looks vibrant and dark at the same time, with the use of abstract colors as a means of visual storytelling to complement the story's cyberpunk world-building, balancing the rot of society with the advancement of technology with the power of high-contrast bright tones with dull darker shades. Akira is a timeless masterpiece and a must-read for all fans of sci-fi, cyberpunk and transhumanism.

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