I bring everyone great news! Tired of your typical anime/manga tropes? Wish you could read some Marvel comics, but in art style of our cultured ways? Congratulations, pick this up and you get a one way ticket to everyone's beloved Merc-With-A-Mouth.
Shonen Jump has done an official collaboration with Marvel, and brought Deadpool to Japan! In proper fashion if I may add, throw in knock-off Spiderman, special Marvel appearances, and you'll have yourselves a regular good old time.
At no point does this disappoint, aside from being way too short.
Story: 7/10
The story is strong/weak at the same time, it's nothing you need to take serious, but it
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Alternative TitlesJapanese: デッドプール:SAMURAI More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 17
Status: Finished
Published: Dec 10, 2020 to Jun 24, 2021
Demographic:
Shounen
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Shounen Jump+ Statistics Ranked: #42152 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2601
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Who knew that Japanese author/s could do a nuanced take on a Canadian character created by an American?
If a nuanced Deadpool take is the fourth wall breaking character talking like a Jump editor who wrote the entire script of the series after bingeing the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe catalog from Iron Man to Avengers: Endgame (including the now MCU canon Fox X-Men movies) and peppered with a bunch of manga inside jokes. Then yes, this is a nuanced take on Deadpool. This manga is a decent take on Deadpool and feels similar tonally to the movie version made popular by Ryan Reynolds. That is because of ... May 12, 2021
I'm appalled on how the author perfectly captured Deadpool's character in writing this one-shot, starting from his way of thinking, his choice of words, up to his actions. It's like Stan Lee decided leave heaven for a little bit to pass his talent to the author of this manga.
It's an understatement to say that the author had an idea of Deadpool's personality, because it seems to me that he truly understood how Deadpool is meant to be written. Every page is a guaranteed laugh, or should I say, entertaining. The art is magnificent and the atmosphere, considering the event happened somewhere in Edo period, encapsulates ... |