VIZ Media recently teamed up with Marvel Comics on a number of Marvel manga from writers and artists like Sanshiro Kasama, Hikaru Uesugi and Yusuke Osawa. Now those titles are getting ready to join the VIZ Manga digital service, and VIZ Manga and Marvel Unlimited are offering subscription deals to celebrate.Among the first titles are Deadpool: Samurai, Wolverine: Snikt!, Spider-Man: Fake Red, and Marvel’s Secret Reverse. After that, Spider-Man: Octo-Girl and X-Men: The Manga: Remastered will follow this fall.
Here’s more on each addition:
Deadpool: Samurai: Deadpool lands in Tokyo with a bang! What could possibly go wrong when Iron Man invites Deadpool 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?
Wolverine: Snikt!: From renowned mangaka Tsutomu Nihei. WOLVERINE is the lone hope of the last remaining humans in a ruined dimension as they fight to survive against robotic organisms. Will he manage to save the day and keep his own humanity, or will he lose himself to the berserker rage deep inside him?
Spider-Man: Fake Red: Yu’s new high school is kind of awful. He’s failing his classes and striking out socially. Everything changes when he finds one of Spider-Man’s costumes abandoned in an alleyway. At first, it’s fun to put on the costume and play the hero, but when powerful enemies appear, Yu quickly realizes he’s out of his element. Still, with the real Spider-Man nowhere to be found, the city needs someone to save it…
Marvel’s Secret Reverse: In Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi’s epic team-up between Iron Man and Spider-Man, Tony Stark travels to Japan to attend a gaming convention. Awaiting his arrival is Reijiro Kaioh, the CEO of a world-famous card game company. Kaioh plans to unveil an amazing new gaming machine, but the inventor and his device are not at all what they appear to be…
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.
As for those deals, current subscribers to the VIZ Manga or Marvel Unlimited services will be eligible for exclusive, limited-time one-month gift subscriptions for the other company’s service. Marvel Unlimited subscribers can get hooked up with a VIZ Manga sub and vice versa. The offer will be available from April 16 to May 16, and is limited to those in the United States. Source: Press Release
