Per Anime News Network, Shueisha and Marvel Comics have announced “Deadpool: Samurai,” a manga starring the Merc with a Mouth, debuting on the Shonen Jump+ app and website on December 10.
The comic is being created by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi, who previously collaborated on a story of the same name in last year’s digital manga “Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration,” which saw Deadpool being transported back in time to Feudal Japan. Kasama and Uesugi’s other projects include “Tsugihagi [Patch] Quest,” a Shonen Jump+ comedy about an undead boy tasked with guarding a magic sword.
The serial marks Marvel’s latest collaboration with Japanese comics publishers in the past few years, including the annual Marvel Manga Awards competition co-run by Kodansha, which led to the publication of Oosawa Yuusuke’s five-issue “Spider-Man: Fake Red.” For the most part, Marvel’s Japanese projects — which date back to 1970 with the first “Spider-Man” and “Hulk” mangas — have been largely created at Kodansha, with last year’s “Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration” seemingly having been the first at Shueisha. Among the stories also featured in that series was “Secret Reverse,” an Iron Man and Spider-Man story by “Yu-Gi-Oh” creator Kazuki Takahashi.
It is currently unknown if, or when, these stories will be published in English.
