History AdaptationDyeJob / AnimeAndManga

** Lupin's jacket color is famously inconsistent. It's red in [[Manga/LupinIII the original manga]], [[Anime/LupinIIIPartII second TV series]], and most films and [[Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials television specials]], but green in [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 the first series]], ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'' (and the films set in its continuity), [[Anime/LupinIIIPart6 the sixth series]], and a few films and [=OVAs=] (including ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''); pink in [[Anime/LupinIIIPartIII the third series]] and ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon''; and blue in the [[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure fourth]] and [[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 fifth]] series (plus a few related productions like ''Italian Game'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIIsLupinStillBurning Is Lupin Still Burning?]]''). This becomes a plot point in ''Lupin III: Anime/GreenVsRed''.
** 2019's ''[[Anime/LupinIIIGoodbyePartner Goodbye Partner]]'' marked the first time in [[LongRunners series history]] that Lupin sports a ''black'' jacket (something prominently featured in marketing materials), while Jigen dons a green jacket--essentially a double WholeCostumeReference to each other's appearance in [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 "Green Jacket"]]. Though Lupin actually wears his more well-known red jacket at the beginning of the special, the decision to switch up his attire stands out in comparison to the franchise's [[Anime/LupinIIITheFirst other]] [[Anime/LupinIIIPrisonOfThePast releases]] that same year, which exclusively use the red jacket.

* In the light novels of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Haruhi's hair is black, Yuki's is gray, and Mikuru is a brunette. In the anime, Yuki's hair is grayish-purple, and Mikuru is a redhead. Both of these are close enough to the ones they are supposed to have that it could be seen as a simple stylistic choice. Haruhi's hair, however, just full on changed from black to dark brown.

** ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' gives Bulma blonde hair with blue streaks and makes Yamcha blonde. Bulma was to initially have her blue hair (and also was considered to have pink hair), but the director and her actress hated how the wig looked and it was discarded after a costume test.
** The manga has Karin colored white, brown, or blue. The anime keeps him white.

* In ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'', Shizuka dyes her hair brown in the 1973 and 1979 anime adaptation, she later dyed her hair black in the 2005 adaptation.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
** The anime changed Tamaki's light brown hair to blond, probably to emphasize his French heritage. The manga later followed suit.
* In ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'', Maron has light brown hair in the manga but darker brown in the anime and Chiaki goes from light blue hair to a darker shade. (Arina has also drawn him with blond hair for some manga images but it seems his true color is light blue.)

** There was even an {{Omake}} that Saito made in the manga where she's afraid when Ikuhara approached her seriously. She thought that he was going to say the anime wasn't going to be made after all, but he was just asking her about colors (He picked the color she didn't choose anyway.)

** Haruka[=/=]Sailor Uranus' hair in the manga is most often white-blonde, but dark, sandy blonde in the nineties anime.
** Makoto[=/=]Sailor Jupiter had pink/strawberry red hair in early manga art, but in both the nineties anime, (and, recursively, latter manga art) it's brown.

* In 2003 {{tokusatsu}} ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', rather than the manga and anime's static {{mukokuseki}} rainbow of odd colors, most protagonist's hair colors are tied to the process of transformation itself.

** Usagi[=/=]Sailor Moon has recursive shifts, (in lieu of the manga's switch from blonde to silver white) It's naturally black as Usagi, golden blonde as Sailor Moon, black again as Princess Serenity, and golden blonde again as Princess Sailor Moon.

** CanonForeigner Sailor Luna's appearance also differs in execution from Creator/NaokoTakeuchi's series' specific[[http://fukufashion.tumblr.com/post/44512611963/naokos-concept-for-sailor-luna original concept art]] While most of the basics carried over, the costume designer opted to give Luna bright blue hair to match the in-series blue Luna [[TheMerch plushie]] instead of the deep purple/black Takeuchi depicted. Her petticoat was also brightened from deep purple to magenta.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': The 2018 anime do this to some of the characters:
** [[MsFanservice Dakki]]'s hair is light brown in the manga cover, a slightly darker orangish-brown in the 1999 anime, but are pink the Artbook. The 2018 anime go with the later color. Same goes for her hair, brown in the manga and the 1999 version, blue in the artbook and 2018 anime
** Likewise, [[MakingASplash Ryuukitsu Koushu]] have black hair in the manga, with Volume 14 cover showing her eyes as blue, but she have blue hair, and nearly purple eyes in the artbook and 2018 anime.
** Bukichi is depicted with blue eyes in the Artbook, but red eyes in the 2018 anime.
** Outenkun skin is blue in the Volume 13 cover, but otherwise grey.
* In the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' anime, several characters (Bian Zoldark especially) got more realistic hair colors (black instead of blue in his case), and Tenzan Nakajima's hair was muted from bright green to a neutral brown. In the OVA, the colors went back to normal, even Bian's is blue in a flashback.

* Everyone in the ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'' manga has either brown eyes or black eyes that are a stylized version of brown. The anime diversifys the designs a bit more, such as Fumi's eyes being hazel and Kyoko's eyes being blue.

* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'''s Aya had her hair go from being very dark brown in the manga, to a light ginger-blonde in the anime.

* Milly from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' was originally a [[DumbBlonde blonde]] [[TheDitz ditz]] in the manga, but was changed to a brunette in the anime. She's still a [[TheDitz ditz]] though. Later illustrations for the manga, such as the Omnibus covers, changed the shade of her hair to honey blond as a sort of compromise.

* In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Lum's hair was rainbow-colored in the manga. The anime made it green, and later [=OVAs=] lightened it to a bright teal. Heavily subject to AdaptationDisplacement.

* Seto Kaiba of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' fame had green hair in the [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Toei anime]], which was then changed to brown for ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'' as it was in the manga. His eyes also changed from yellow to blue. Perhaps as an homage to this, the anime's FillerVillain, Noah, looks very much like a younger version of Kaiba's old design.
** Likewise, Anzu's/Tea's eyes change from brown (first series anime) to blue (second series anime).

* In ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', Coran, Allura, and Pidge had light brown hair, blond hair, and dark brown hair respectively. In the ContinuityReboot, ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', Coran is a redhead, (similar to his auburn-haired voice actor, Rhys Darby,) Allura has MysticalWhiteHair, and Pidge has reddish-brown hair.

* In the ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' manga, Shuichi's hair is black (except for when he temporarily dyes it blond in later volumes), and it's safe to assume that his eyes are a normal black or brown. The OVA gives him dark red-brown hair and green eyes, and the later anime adaptation tops it by giving him bright pink hair and purple eyes more representative of his [[{{Keet}} hyper personality]].
** Some of the covers for the manga volumes however, give him various different hair colors, including pink and violet.

* ''LightNovel/KagerouProject'':

* In the second anime adaptation of ''Literature/LittleWomen'', from 1981, only Beth kept her brown hair. The brown-haired Meg was given black hair, whereas the auburn-haired Jo and the blonde Amy pretty much swapped hair colors. The [[Anime/AiNoWakakusaMonogatari third and better known adaptation]] gave the girls their original color palettes back.

* ''Manga/MedakaBox'' seems to be going in this direction, at least for the more minor characters - in the very first episode, Moji's hair went from being brown to bright blue.

* Fuu Hououji, one of the PowerTrio from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', has blonde hair in the original manga. All the adaptations (anime, OVA, and video game) give her light brown hair instead.

** In part 1 of the manga, on the coloured manga covers, Sakura wore several different shorts in the manga varying in both color and length. The anime had her constantly wear the same black slightly-above-the-knees shorts all the time. She also sometimes wears green nail-polish and eye-liner. She never wears makeup in the anime.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has to be the king of this trope. The manga, the first two anime series, and the early {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs (unlicensed in the US) all use different hair colours. Given [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the size of the cast]] and the fact that a significant portion of them change each time, listing all the changes is not feasible here. In fact, we had to [[AdaptationDyeJob/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi give this series its own trope page!]]

** [[MsFanservice Dakki]]'s RapunzelHair are a light brown in the manga cover, a slightly darker orangish-brown in the 1999 anime, but are pink the Artbook. The 2018 anime go with the later color. Same goes for her hair, brown in the manga and the 1999 version, blue in the artbook and 2018 anime

* Manami and Hatori from ''Manga/{{Life}}'' both have blonde hair, which isn't exactly common for Japanese girls (though there are implications that their hair is [[DyeHard dyed]]). The {{Dorama}} gives both of them dark brown hair.

** Lupin's jacket color is famously inconsistent. It's red in [[Manga/LupinIII the original manga]], [[Anime/LupinIIIPartII second TV series]], and most films and [[Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials television specials]], but green in [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 the first series]], ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'' (and the films set in its continuity), and a few films and [=OVAs=] (including ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''); pink in [[Anime/LupinIIIPartIII the third series]] and ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon''; and blue in the [[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure fourth]] and [[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 fifth]] series (plus a few related productions like ''Italian Game'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIIsLupinStillBurning Is Lupin Still Burning?]]''). This becomes a plot point in ''Lupin III: Anime/GreenVsRed''.

** Fujiko Mine has famously inconsistent hair. It's most commonly colored brown, but changes in color and style depending on the installment. For instance, her hair is colored blonde in the iconic ''[[Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro Castle of Cagliostro]]'' movie, a stylistic choice that has carried on to [[Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini at least]] [[Anime/LupinIIIIslandOfAssassins two]] of the [[Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials TV specials]] (three if one counts the non-[[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback]] portions of ''[[Anime/LupinIIIEpisode0FirstContact Episode 0: First Contact]]'') and was also intended for the canceled ''Lupin VIII'' series.

** Retsuga was originally colored brown and white. Years later, another colored image of him was made, and this time he was [[YouGottahaveBlueHair blue and white.]]

* ''Manga/MedakaBox'' seems to be going in this direction, at least for the more minor characters - in the very first episode, Moji's hair went from being brown to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair bright blue]].

* The anime ''Princess Princess'' has a bad case of this. In the anime the originally black-haired main character Tooru has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]], brown-haired Mikoto and Akira have respectively pink and green hair. The only character in the main quartet untouched is the blond-haired Yujiro.

* In 2003 {{tokusatsu}} ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', rather than the manga and anime's static {{mukokuseki}} rainbow of [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair odd]] colors, most protagonist's hair colors are tied to the process of transformation itself.

* The summary episode of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has concept art that depicts [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Nia]] with strawberry blonde hair.

* The Ame-Warashi has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]] in the ''Manga/XxxHolic'' manga, but it was changed into red for the anime. Particularly disconcerting since she's the [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience spirit of the rain]] and all. On a subtler note, Watanuki and Domeki have the exact same skin tone in the manga, but the anime made them much paler and darker respectively.

* All of the female dragons in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' were given MulticoloredHair in the anime (though the main colors still line up with their manga counterparts).

** Ryu had dark brown hair in the original anime series, but the '90s OVA gave him [[MulticoloredHair two-toned dyed hair]], with it being purple on top and blond on the sides.

* In the first season of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Precia Testarossa's hair was a sort of violet-tinted grey. In several pieces of official movie art but not the movie itself, it's very much pure, dark violet.

* In the light novels of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Haruhi's hair is black, Yuki's is gray, and Mikuru is a brunette. In the anime, Yuki's hair is grayish-purple, and Mikuru is a redhead. Both ofthese are close enough to the ones they are supposed to have that it could be seen as a simple stylistic choice. Haruhi's hair, however, just full on changed from black to dark brown.

** While she hasn't officially appeared in the reboot anime yet, Princess Serenity retains the blond hair she had in the old anime, despite it being silver-white in the manga, as shown in the anime's Ending ''Gekkou'' (despite not seeing the face) and the full Sailor Moon MV of the opening song.

** In the 2003 anime, Al's breach cloth is light violet. But the the manga and ''Brotherhood'', his cloth is white.

** Lupin's jacket color is famously inconsistent. It's red in [[Manga/LupinIII the original manga]], [[Anime/LupinIIIPartII second TV series]], and most films and [[Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials television specials]], but green in [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 the first series]], ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'' (and the films set in its continuity), and a few films and [=OVAs=] (including ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''); pink in [[Anime/LupinIIIPartIII the third series]] and ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon''; and blue in the [[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure fourth]] and [[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 fifth]] series (plus a few related productions like ''Italian Game'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIIsLupinStillBurning Is Lupin Still Burning?]]''). This becomes a plot point in ''Lupin III: Anime/GreenVsRed''.

* Ai Haibara of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has very light strawberry blonde hair in the manga and light brown or auburn hair in the anime. Shinichi Kudo's mother also goes from blonde to brunette, as does Ran's friend Sonoko.

* ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'' featured vastly different character designs from the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, however they also received redesigns part way to make them more similar to their anime counterparts. Misty was a HotterAndSexier brunette for the first chapters but was toned down eventually and made into a redhead.

** Lupin's jacket color is famously inconsistent. It's red in [[Manga/LupinIII the original manga]], [[Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket second TV series]], and most films and [[Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials television specials]], but green in [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first series]], ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'' (and the films set in its continuity), and a few films and [=OVAs=] (including ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''); pink in [[Anime/LupinIIIPinkJacket the third series]] and ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon''; and blue in the [[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure fourth]] and [[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 fifth]] series (plus a few related productions like ''Italian Game'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIIsLupinStillBurning Is Lupin Still Burning?]]''). This becomes a plot point in ''Lupin III: Anime/GreenVsRed''.
** 2019's ''[[Anime/LupinIIIGoodbyePartner Goodbye Partner]]'' marked the first time in [[LongRunners series history]] that Lupin sports a ''black'' jacket (something prominently featured in marketing materials), while Jigen dons a green jacket--essentially a double WholeCostumeReference to each other's appearance in [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket "Green Jacket"]]. Though Lupin actually wears his more well-known red jacket at the beginning of the special, the decision to switch up his attire stands out in comparison to the franchise's [[Anime/LupinIIITheFirst other]] [[Anime/LupinIIIPrisonOfThePast releases]] that same year, which exclusively use the red jacket.

** Piccolo's non-green skin patches are yellow in the manga and a pinkish color in the anime. Also, his belt is red in the manga and movies (before ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'') but blue in the anime.

** Yuria's hair is changed from black to salmon (violet during the Shin arc and brown in flashbacks)
** Rin's hair is changed from brown to dark red in the TV series and pink in the movie

** Raoh & Kaioh's hair is changed from blond/silver to black and purple (respectively)
*** Raoh and Kaioh additionally become AmbiguouslyBrown

** Amiba's hair is changed from black to blonde (before he dyed his hair white)

** In the live-action ''Manga/DeathNote'' movies, Misa Amane has the brown hair natural to her actress, instead of the blonde she had in the anime and manga (though it has been shown dyes hair blonde). Other characters were given relatively normal Japanese hair, but hers stood out the most. Also in the anime Misa gets symbolic light blue hair in one episode when everyone goes into "thinking mode", and a brief shot in the first opening shows her with deep blue hair and golden eyes.

** When his eyes aren't [[RedEyesTakeWarning scarlet]], Kurapika has brown eyes in the manga. The 1999 anime gave him [[InconsistentColoring various shades]] of [[UsefulNotes/GreenIsBlue blue or green]] eyes, while the 2011 anime gave him brownish-grey eyes. The 1998 Jump Super Anime Tour OVA also made his hair auburn instead of blond.