History AdaptationDyeJob / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': The 2018 anime does 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 is pink the artbook. The 2018 anime goes 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]] has black hair in the manga, with the Volume 14 cover showing her eyes as blue, but she has blue hair and nearly purple eyes in the artbook and 2018 anime.
** Bukichi is depicted with blue eyes in the artbook, but has red eyes in the 2018 anime.
** Outenkun's skin is blue on the Volume 13 cover, but grey otherwise.

** An extreme example happened with [[BattleButler Canary]], who is one of a few secondary characters with distinctly afro features. The manga gives her orangeish hair and [[ButNotTooBlack light brown skin]], the 1999 anime gave her red hair and light skin, and the 2011 anime gave her black hair and dark skin.

* Kuroneko-sama has white eyes in the manga, even in color illustrations and manga-specific merchandise, but the 1998 anime and movie gave her green eyes, as does any merch based on the anime.

** 009's hair was initially undecided in color illustrations by Ishinomori, who vacillated between depicting it as blond and as a light reddish-brown. Officially, it's stated to be "chestnut brown", and appears that way in the 1980 "Legend of the Super Galaxy" film and in the 2001 TV series. In the mid-1960s films by Toei, his hair was depicted as jet black and he lost his PeekABangs (which he gained back in the subsequent 1968 series). The 1979 series by Toei gave him blond hair, while the 2012 film ''009 RE: CYBORG'' gave his hair more of a gingery orange shade. The 1960s films also gave 009 a white uniform and red scarf, as opposed to a red uniform and yellow scarf.

* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' has Arataka Reigen and Teruki Hanazawa who were originally brunettes in the manga. Both characters became blondes in the anime, the former having a ginger undertone.

** In Part I 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.

** ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' is a complicated case. In the original manga, the girls' hair always matches their [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow "signature color"]], transformed or not. In the anime, the colors were changed slightly towards the darker and less outrageous shades for the girls' regular forms, changing to their much brighter "signature colors" as they transform into their [[MagicalGirl Mew Mew]] forms. The most noticeable case is Ichigo: pink-haired in both forms in the manga, but has dark red hair and brown eyes in her regular form in the anime, which only changes to pink when she becomes Mew Ichigo. Go figure. The [[Anime/TokyoMewMewNew anime remake]] simplifies this by keeping Ichigo's red hair as a civillain but has it just brighten up to a more vibrant shade as a Mew Mew. Adding to this, her cat form and animal features were black in both the original manga and anime serries were black where in ''New'' makes them brown to better match the animal she's infused with; the Irimote Wild Catt.
** Aoyama's original design had blue hair and eyes, but his anime design has black hair and dark brown eyes.

** ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' is a complicated case. In the original manga, the girls' hair always matches their [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow "signature color"]], transformed or not. In the anime, the colors were changed slightly towards the darker and less outrageous shades for the girls' regular forms, changing to their much brighter "signature colors" as they transform into their [[MagicalGirl Mew Mew]] forms. The most noticeable case is Ichigo: pink-haired in both forms in the manga, but has dark red hair and brown eyes in her regular form in the anime, which only changes to pink when she becomes Mew Ichigo. Go figure.

* Hitagi Senjougahara from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' had brown hair in the original light novel but in the anime it's purple. Except when it's shown as brown for some reason.

* Touko Aozaki of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' originally had short blue hair in the novels, but when the series was adapted to film, her hair was changed to red and long to make her resemble her sister [[Characters/{{Tsukihime}} Aoko]], and subsequent artwork has always shown Touko with red hair. Her original character design was then used for Natalia Kaminski in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' as a MythologyGag.

* The original ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios'' light novels say Leerin has blonde hair, compared to her auburn-red hair in the anime. Curiously, the cover art for said novels depict her exactly as she appears in the anime.

** Female Ranma has red hair in the anime, but there once was an enormous backlash over whether or not this applied to the mostly black-and-white manga, where it just looks a little glossier than male Ranma's. Covers (which never portrayed either form's hair color consistently) and other external art work aside, fans in favor of the idea rationalized that since curses copy their original victims, it was reasonable that Ranma's curse had just involved a redhead [[note]]which is disproved by the fact that Herb changes into a girl but has the same hair[[/note]]. Fans against the idea rationalized it occurred for the same reason other Takahashi characters got palette changes: to simply to make both versions of Ranma [[CastSpeciation immediately distinguishable to the viewing audience]].

** 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 from ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler The Return of Cooler]]'' until ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'', but blue in the anime. Lastly, his nails are black in the manga, but white in the anime. ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'' features Piccolo with his manga color.

** 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 from ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler The Return of Cooler]]'' until ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'', but blue in the anime.

*** Traditionally, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang yin-yang]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu is represented]] not as white and black, but '''red''' and black. Yang, the black, is the masculine, while yin, the red, is the feminine. This was probably one reason why red was chosen over any color for female Ranma.

** Female Ranma has red hair in the anime, but there once was an enormous backlash over whether or not this applied to the mostly black-and-white manga. Fanciful multicolored-covers and art work aside, fans in favor of the idea rationalized that since curses copy their original victims, it was reasonable that Ranma's curse had just involved a redhead [[note]]which is disproved by the fact that Herb changes into a girl but has the same hair[[/note]]. Fans against the idea rationalized it occurred for the same reason other Takahashi characters got palette changes: to simply to make both versions of Ranma [[CastSpeciation immediately distinguishable to the viewing audience]].

** In colored official publications Suzuki's hair is shown as blond like Mamiko's. In the cover of Nozaki's manga in the anime his hair is shown as brown.

** 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]], ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'', and -- to the surprise of many -- the 2023 {{crossover}} ''Lupin III vs. Manga/CatsEye''; 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''.

** Shizuka dyes her hair brown in the 1973 and 1979 anime adaptation, she later dyed her hair black in the 2005 adaptation.

** Al and Hohenheim have dark blond (almost brown) hair in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime adaptation]] instead of gold hair. Al's eyes are also brown instead of the gold they are in [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the manga]].

* In the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' manga, Sōsuke is usually depicted as having purple hair. For the anime, this was changed to a more typical black. Ironically, Kaname's black hair in the original books was made blue.

** Rangiku Matsumoto went from bright blonde in the manga to strawberry-blonde in the anime. Oddly, she gets her original hair color back for one filler episode, 304, and gets it back for good in the SequelSeries, ''Thousand-Year Blood War

** Rangiku Matsumoto went from bright blonde in the manga to strawberry-blonde in the anime. Oddly, she gets her original hair color back for one filler episode, 304.

** Harribel Tier is tan in the anime. But her complexion was noticeably darker in the manga, being closer to Yoruichi's skin tone, if not slightly darker.

** 008 had black hair in the manga artwork and the early anime adaptations, but was changed to be a DarkSkinnedBlond in the 2001 series and the American comic adaptation.

* In both ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'' OVA adaptations, Riki has brown eyes instead of his distinct black eyes from the novel.

* ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'' has a rather odd case. In the light novels, Sanae’s hair color changed after Volume 1 (from purple to orange) and the other characters have a lighter shade (compare Koutarou's design from the Volume 1 cover to the latest one). The anime, however, follows Volume 1’s design.

* [[AntiHero Zelgadis Graywords]] of the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' anime has light blue skin (as he is a chimera), lilac-colored hair, and navy blue eyes; in the original novels that the show was adapted from, his skin is said to be more blue-green, his hair is silvery, and his eyes are purple. The NonSerialMovie ''Slayers Premium'' featured the novel-designed version of him. There is also a small bridge of stone that is stuck between his left eyelids in his novel design that isn't seen in the anime. Interestingly, he's an odd case of ArtEvolution where current art of him matches his anime design.

* In the anime of ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'', Ai's hair is a darker shade of gold than in the original novels, and Alice's eyes are purple instead of red, likely to contrast with Dee's purple hair and red eyes.