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

An image from Sanshiro Kasama's "Deadpool: Samurai," published in Japanese in 2021, and in English in February 2022. It marked the first partnership between Marvel and Japanese comics publisher Shonen Jump. Photo: AP

Deadpool, meet All Might.

Perhaps nothing highlights how the world of manga, the comics and cartoons originating in Japan, has gone global better than that coming together of superheroes, American and Japanese.