VIZ Media and Marvel have teamed-up to bring back classic mangas, including the X-Men: The Animated Series manga adaptation from 1998, which is expected to get remastered with an English deluxe edition this year.
Marvel.com and VIZ Media's social media accounts shared the announcements, which also mentioned Spider-Man: Octo-Girl, Vol. 1, a title originally published by Shueisha in Japan. The new deal also includes Deadpool: Samurai - The Official Coloring Book, featuring 80 pages of Hikaru Uesugi's artwork of Marvel characters.
The X-Men manga by Hiroshi Higuchi follows Jubilee as she has to leave her "normal life" behind when "the mutant-hunting robots known as Sentinels come after her." Despite the popularity of the manga, the adaptation has been out of print for years, but it looks like Marvel is taking advantage of the proximity of Disney+'s upcoming X-Men '97 animated series, which will reportedly premiere in mid-March 2024. The manga will be a newly-translated deluxe edition.
You can read Marvel's official description of the X-Men: The Animated Series manga Vol. 1 below:
A deluxe manga take on your favorite X-Men stories! The English edition manga adaptation of the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series is newly remastered and presented in a deluxe edition for the first time. X-Men: The Animated Series was a global sensation and the perfect introduction to Marvel's mutants! Hiroshi Higuchi’s manga, unavailable for years, now finally returns to print! Newly translated and presented in a deluxe edition, this is the ultimate X-Men collector’s item! In X-Men, Vol. 1 , Jubilation Lee is a teenager with a secret: she’s a mutant, the next level of human evolution, and has fantastic powers. All she wants is a normal life with trips to the mall to get away from her parents, but when the mutant-hunting robots known as Sentinels come after her, that normal life is pushed out of her reach! Discover the X-Men—mutant heroes hated and feared by a world they’re sworn to protect—alongside Jubilee in this classic manga series releasing Fall 2024.
Here's a closer look at the provisional cover for X-Men, Vol. 1:
Marvel.com currently lists the X-Men manga's release in paperback format on November 12, 2024.
