It may not be universal knowledge that the One Piece has a completely official (and quite high quality) full colour release, due to it being Japanese only and digital only, and therefore only readable via scanlations.

But it does exist, and unfortunately it has stalled following the release of volume 99 in September 2022. That’s long enough that some fans have come to wonder if it’s been abandoned entirely.

But there’s evidence Shueisha is still working on the colour release behind the scenes, in the panels from volumes 100 and beyond that keep appearing in marketing materials such as the official Twitter and YouTube, the card game, and the Vivre Card Databook.

I’ve saved all I’ve spotted. I’m sharing cutouts of the folders I use for them to give an idea of how much of each volume has been done. The quality on many is not great, particularly those sourced from the Vivre Cards because they’re screen caps of photos of relatively small printed material, but they offer a preview of what’s to come.

Filenames represent the chapter, but may not be accurate to the order within the chapter. That just comes from the order I saved them. And yes, there are a couple of double-ups where the same panel was used by two different sources.

Volume 100:

Volume 101:

Volume 102:

Volume 103:

Volume 104:

Volume 105:

Volume 106

Volume 107:

Volume 108:

So what? Could Shueisha just drop all the way up to vol 108 (the second latest release!) in full colour whenever they want? Eh, probably not. I imagine for things that recent, they pick and choose the panels they need for promo material and leave the rest for later. Some of the colours may not yet be final. (We can see that the grid-texture ground in the Egghead Fabriophase is purple here when the anime made it green, and there’s no evidence to say either way if that’s one of the places where the anime is contradicting Oda, or if the colour just wasn’t finalised at the time these colourings were done.)

But give how long it’s been, I’d be surprised if they didn’t have at least up to the end of Wano ready to pull the trigger on. Hopefully soon. Maybe alongside the digital release of volume 109 in early August?

My fingers will remain crossed.