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I know that there are mangas printed in color as opposed to black and white.
One example of this is Colorful by Torajirō Kishi, which is the only one that
I know of. What was the first manga that was printed entirely in color--as
opposed to just cover pages on tankoban being in color?


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What was the first manga in color?


In the [Wikipedia page for "Manga"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga), it
says this about the history:

> In 1905 the manga-magazine publishing boom started with the Russo-Japanese
> War, Tokyo Pakku was created and became a huge hit. After Tokyo Pakku in
> 1905, a female version of Shōnen Sekai was created and named Shōjo Sekai,
> considered the first shōjo magazine. Shōnen Pakku was made and is considered
> the first children's manga magazine. The children's demographic was in an
> early stage of development in the Meiji period. Shōnen Pakku was influenced
> from foreign children's magazines such as Puck which an employee of Jitsugyō
> no Nihon (publisher of the magazine) saw and decided to emulate. In 1924,
> Kodomo Pakku was launched as another children's manga magazine after Shōnen
> Pakku. During the boom, **Poten (derived from the French "potin") was
> published in 1908. All the pages were in full color** with influences from
> Tokyo Pakku and Osaka Pakku. It is unknown if there were any more issues
> besides the first one.

So in 1908, there was a manga called "Poten" that was printed in full color.
There's more info about "Poten"
[here](http://mmsearch.kyotomm.jp/infolib/search/CsvSearch.cgi?DEF_XSL=eng&GRP_ID=G0000002&DB_ID=G0000002GALLERY&IS_DB=G0000002GALLERY&IS_TYPE=csv&IS_STYLE=eng&SUM_KIND=CsvSummary&SUM_NUMBER=10&IS_SCH=CSV&META_KIND=NOFRAME&IS_KIND=CsvDetail&IS_NUMBER=1&SUM_TYPE=normal&IS_START=3&IS_KEY_A1=%22GALLERY%22&IS_TAG_A1=Cul11&IS_ADDSCH_CNT=1&VIEW_FLG=0):

> When we look at the history of manga, we see a side which was brought about
> by war. The Sino-Japanese War kick-started the Giga-Nishikie boom, and the
> Russo-Japanese War brought about the manga magazine publication boom. In
> 1905: “Jijimanga Hibijutsu Gaho”* (Kyoto), “Nipponchi” _; 1906: “Tokyo
> Pakku”_ ; 1907: “Osaka Pakku” _, “Joto Ponchi”_ ; 1908: “Ehagaki Sekai” _,
> “Warai”_ , “Shonen Pakku”* and so on. In 1908, “Poten” was published in
> Kyoto.“Poten” apparently comes from the French word “potin”, meaning “rough-
> and-tumble”. Unlike other manga, it is 34cm long and 19cm wide, yet it has
> been strongly influenced by other manga magazines of the time. That the
> centerfold spread was a large single sheet of topical satire manga and that
> all the pages were printed in colour were influences from “Tokyo Pakku” and
> “Osaka Pakku”.Also, on the last page there are four picture postcards which
> one can cut out and actually use an idea borrowed from Miyatake Gaikotsu's
> “Ehagaki Sekai”. It is unconfirmed whether there are issues other than the
> first issue. (Shimizu Isao) (*)...Museum collection


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