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Made-in-Japan manga goes global with Webtoon, Deadpool

The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) The image is from Sanshiro Kasama’s "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marks the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. (DEADPOOL: SAMURAI © 2022 MARVEL, Story by Sanshiro Kasama, Art by Hikaru Uesugi, Translated by Amanda Haley, Lettered by Brandon Bovia via AP) In this image made from a video, Julia Mechler, the manga artist who created "Hymn of the Teada" speaks with The Associated in a Zoom interview from Okinawa, southern Japan on Feb. 21, 2022. She found that that an American publisher was more interested in her work, which stars a woman from Okinawa, than were Japanese publishers, underlining how manga has gone global. (AP Photo) In this image made from a video, Sanshiro Kasama, the author of "Deadpool: Samurai" speaks with The Associated Press in a Zoom interview from Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2022. His work featuring a Marvel hero was published in Japanese last year and came out in English translation this month, highlighting how manga is going global. (AP Photo) In this image made from a video, Kojuro Hagihara, chief executive of Tokyo-based Sorajima Studio, which produces Webtoon works for various platforms, speaks with The Associated Press in a Zoom interview on Feb. 21, 2022. The studio has three works out so far, all profitable, including one published in the U.S. It plans 26 works for this year, and 50 for next year, which would rival the productivity of Webtoon studios in South Korea. Ventures like his are on the rise and show the latest trend in manga, as it goes global. (AP Photo)