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No, take a look at the later colored first pages of some chapters of the Tartarus arc. The colors are pale compared to the other colored pages from the story arcs before. Only some colored pages of the earlier part of Tartarus arc are brighter. So maybe, Mashima himself prefer the pale colors for Tartarus arc. Maybe.