Spider-Man: Fake Red

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Spider-Man: Fake Red is a manga based on Marvel's most iconic hero, the "one and only" Spider-Man, serialized between July 2019 and March 2020.

This is a fun and interesting take on both what it means to be Spider-Man but also how inspiring a character he is. Yu is an awkward loner who has self-doubt and finds himself in over his head a lot, but tries his best to do the right thing and save lives despite the personal cost and disruption it causes in his own life. The characters are all well written, but I think the series deserves more volumes and a longer runtime would have also benefited the characters to develop deeper. The bullies leave and Toby walks out, Yu attempts to apologize to Toby feeling guilty for not attempting to help him. One day however, he finds a well made Spider-Man outfit thrown into the trash, and decides to take it home with him to mess around with.Incompatible Orientation: Yu has a crush on his confidant Emma, only to learn that she is a closested lesbian with a crush on one of her classmates. Given this was a discontinued series though I’m sure that was an impacting factor on what was allowed to be explored and I’m sure Marvel gave Yusuke Osawa so many caveats when clearing this that there is where it probably suffered. Despite the risks to himself, Yu is driven to continually masquerading as the real Spider-Man because he feels it's what Spidey would do in his shoes. I later found out this has been out in Japan for a while but was only recently adapted for release here, so it's probably safe to assume VIZ timed this release close to that of the movie so the manga could ride AtSV's coattails a little. A new villain appears a woman named Screwball who plants a bomb and challenges Spiderman to find it on her livestream.

It's played for humor at first, but before long Yu pleasingly discovers a previously untapped courage and determination deep inside his soul and begins to roughly succeed at being a passable imitation Spidey. However he realizes they are besties and now is extremely excited to have a true friend that he can count on. Seeing the parallels with Peter's real struggles with Yu figuring out what he wants to do with his new found suit and webs. But when he finds Spidey's suit abandoned in an alley, he winds up taking up the mantle while Spiderman is among the missing. We start off with a very tired, defeated, sad looking Spiderman, dropping and throwing away his suit in an alley.Even though he is out of his element, Yu has to rise out of the dark depths of his despair and save the City from whoever threatens it. Mistaken Identity: Emma notices that Yu has bandages on his arm in the exact same spots that "Spider-Man" got hurt while rescuing her from carjackers the day before. But he is game and really does try to help while waiting for the real spidey to get back and take up his suit and mantle.