[bryans]

Your pedantry is neither appropriate nor correct. Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints, not because manga's style is defined as black and white. There are tons of full-color manga, and many that become popular have color editions released.

[lmm]

> Your pedantry

It's not pedantry. I'm trying to convey some actual understanding here. These drawings aren't manga-style, you can tell because they don't look like (typical) drawings from manga; most obviously in that they're not black and white.

> Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints

True but irrelevant. The style of the medium coevolved with those constraints and is suited towards them (as with most media). A manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.

> There are tons of full-color manga, and many that become popular have color editions released.

They exist (indeed I own some) but they are the exception rather than the rule. Again, "manga-style drawing" would be generally understood to mean a drawing that looked like a typical drawing from a manga.

[codetrotter]

> "manga-style drawing" would be generally understood to mean a drawing that looked like a typical drawing from a manga.

Generally understood by who though?

I see your point about what you said about the colours

> manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.

In particular I agree that the black and white manga drawing uses special techniques to look good in black and white. Such as notably the half-tone patterns that they use.

But I think you are placing more weight on this particular thing than perhaps most people do.

There are many defining features of manga aside from the lack of colour.

I guess to determine whether or not it is generally agreed that it must be black and white, we’d have to interview a bunch of people about what style some images were, and see if an overwhelming majority thought that colour mattered or not :p

Or, less thoroughly we might just ask the denizens of the 4chan /a/ board. They probably have some strong opinions about what counts as manga or not.

[rjh29]

I think it's less about black/white and more about the outlined art style. A lot of these QR codes are painted. There are painted manga (Lost in Abyss comes to mind) but they are a rarity.