Back in 2022 Marvel Comics and VIZ Media teamed up to tell stories featuring Marvel's most beloved characters in the form of manga. With manga continuing to rise in popularity worldwide, especially in the west, the two companies are enhancing their partnership.
As announced today, the VIZ Manga digital service will now be home to many of these Marval manga titles, including Deadpool: Samurai, Wolverine: Snikt!, Spider-Man: Fake Red, and Marvel’s Secret Reverse.
Deadpool: Samurai began as a manga-one shot but was so popular it became a full series on Shonen Jump+. The series, written by Sanshirou Kasama and illustrated by Hikaru Uesugi, follows the Merc with a Mouth to Tokyo after Iron Man invites him to join the Avengers' new Samurai Squad. "After all, Deadpool is just in it for the money…and the trip to Japan. This is fine, right?" the description teases.
Wolverine: Snikt! was released in June 2023 with a story and art by Tsutomu Nihei. The story takes WOlverine to a desolate new dimension where he stands as the lone hope of the few remaining humans as they fight against robotic organism.
Spider-Man: Fake Red also debuted in June and follows high-schooler Yu, an awkward teenager who finds an abandoned Spider-Man suit. Wearing the suit for a bit of fun, Yu quickly realizes he's out of his element when powerful enemies start to appear. But with the real Spider-Man still missing, someone must save the city.
Marvel's Secret Reverse is an epic team-up between Iron Man and Spider-Man from Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuuki Takahashi. Tony Stark travels to Japan to attend a gaming convention where Reijiro Kaioh, the CEO of a world-famous card game company, plans to unveil a new gaming machine that turns out is not what it appears to be.
Later this Fall, Spider-Man: Octo-Girl and the highly anticipated manga adaptation of X-Men: The Manga: Remastered will come to VIZ Manga. The descriptions for these read:
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl: After a battle with Spider-Man, the evil genius scientist Doctor Octopus falls into a coma. When he wakes up, his consciousness is in the body of Otoha Okutamiya, a middle school girl in Tokyo! Thus begins the strange school life of Spider-Man’s biggest rival…as a regular Japanese girl!
X-Men: The Manga: Remastered: The much anticipated manga adaptation of the global sensation X-Men: The Animated Series. The classic manga adaptation, unavailable for years, now finally returns to print and will come to VIZ Manga’s digital service. Newly remastered and presented in a deluxe edition, the print and digital formats will be in high demand for all ultimate X-Men collectors.
In celebration of this new partnership, VIZ Manga and Marvel Unlimited are offering a special co-promotion for exclusive, limited-time one-month gift subscriptions to each other's service for current subscribers. Subscribers to each service will receive a unique code for the other service via email. The limited-time offer runs from April 16, 2024 to May 16, 2024.
VIZ Manga's digital service is available on Android and iOS in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition to being the new home of these Marvel titles, the service boasts more than 10,000-plus chapters of VIZ Media's manga.