User blog comment:MrHatNClogs/Gin Ichimaru. Red or blue?/@comment-1351982-20100516032938

It's ok now. Kubo is actually very good friends with character designer Masashi Kudo, and that is why color wise everything is so close now. The animators were not out of touch with Kubo, from what I understand Kubo had not finally decided what color eyes Gin should have.