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Marvel Comics Launch A New Manga Line In Japan With Kadokawa For 2026
Marvel Comics Launch A New Manga Line In Japan With Kadokawa For 2026, announced at San Diego Comic-Con #sdcc
Article Summary
- Marvel Manga launches in Japan with Kadokawa in 2026, starting a new line of five original manga volumes.
- Announced at San Diego Comic-Con, the initiative ties into C.B. Cebulski’s new Marvel Asia Originals role in Tokyo.
- Early Marvel Manga titles include Spider-Man of Shibuya, plus Japanese reimaginings of Daredevil and The Punisher.
- Creators include Ryuusei Yamada on Spider-Man and Tokitokoro on Spider-Gwen, bringing manga talent to Marvel.
Marvel Comics has announced a new publishing initiative with manga publisher Kadokawa for five original manga volumes featuring Marvel characters for later this year.
At the Marvel Fanfare panel at San Diego Comic-Con, editors from Kadokawa joined departing Marvel Editor-In-Chief C.B. Cebulski. It seems these titles will be part of Cebulski's brief as the new Asia Originals Editor for Marvel Comics in Tokyo, and will feature localised Japanese versions of Marvel characters.
Titles will include Spider-Man, as a high schooler, the Spider-Man Of Shibuya.
And will also feature Daredevil of Shinjuku, with an Oni-style devil mask…
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- Marvel Fanfare panel
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- Marvel Fanfare panel
…and The Punisher, a Yakuza-style character, carrying a katana. Spider-Man Of Shibuya will be created by manga author Tokitokoro, known for her Boys Love title River In Me, as well as Jeff the Land Shark, Marvel Rival and Doctor Strange. She posts to social media "It's finally been announced! KADOKAWA × MARVEL !! What if there was a Spider-Man born in Shibuya, or a Daredevil in Shinjuku? Yakuza-style Punisher? It's crazy, I know."
The second book will feature Spider-Gwen and will be created by manga author Ryuusei Yamada, who is best known for his assassin and samurai manga Revenger, as well as Marvel Rivals.
This also comes as Japanese publisher Shueisha announced this month that its contract with Walt Disney Japan to publish manga adaptations of Marvel Comics characters will end next month. Shueisha will begin removing Marvel x Shonen Jump+ Super Collaboration, Secret Reverse, Spider-Man: Octo-Girl, Spider-Man: Kizuna, and Deadpool: Samurai from digital storefronts by the end of September and will pull all print sales. Get them while you can. While Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions' contract to publish Marvel titles in Japanese also ended at the end of the month. It's a good time to be Kadokawa, I guess.
Founded in 1945 as Kadokawa Shoten by Genyoshi Kadokawa to revitalize Japanese culture through publishing after WWII, the Kadokawa Corporation is a major Japanese media conglomerate and one of the country's leading entertainment companies, best known for publishing, anime, light novels, manga, films, and video games, with a focus on IP creation and global media mix strategies, leveraging books, digital content, anime, live-action, games, and more to maximise the value of its properties. It emphasises "Global Media Mix with Technology" to discover talent, create IPs, and distribute them worldwide. Sounds like a company after Marvel Comics' heart…
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