Why is manga always in black and white?

>>159413256
cheaper and easier to print on newspaper quality paper

Because coloring costs money and it takes far more skill than you'd imagine to actually pull off.

>>159413256
have you seen the way some of the artists color in their drawings? it's better this way.

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>>159413297
>trigger warning
what are you some sort of faggot?

>>159413256
Manga used to be in color until WWII. In post-war Japan, many children weren't eating properly due to their economy and infrastructure being in shambles. A large portion of Japanese developed color blindness and printing companies realized saw sales decline because people couldn't differentiate between the colors on the page and so they stopped reading manga. As a solution, publishers switched to black and white only and manga sales increased dramatically.
Even though color blindness due to malnutrition is a thing of the past, many publishers keep with this tradition, though you may notice that recently lots of publishers are sneaking in a few color pages here and there as a test to see if people are willing to break with the tradition of monochrome manga. There has actually been a surprising amount of pushback from purists, so the tradition of B&W manga continues.