Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Marvel Is Turning Japanese I Really Think So

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: Variety

Marvel comics has teamed up with the animation house, Madhouse, to create several new series for the 24-hour Anime Network, Animax. Marvel's classic superheroes, such as Spider-Man, Wolverine and Iron Man, will get a brand new look and back stories that will that touch on local culture and Japanese history. These new animated series are set to debut in 2010.

This isn't the first time that Marvel characters have been changed to appeal to Japanese fans. In the early 1970s both Spider-Man (Supaidaman) and The Hulk were transformed into Manga written and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami for Monthly Shonen Magazine.

In the Japanese version of, "Spider-Man", which paralleled the original saga of Peter Parker, a high school student named Yu Komori is bitten by a radioactive spider, which gave him spider-like powers. Yu faces Japanese versions of villains such as Electro, the Lizard and the Kangaroo. Yu also has an Aunt May (her name is "Mei"), and the publisher of the Joho newspaper is a counterpart to J. Jonah Jameson.
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