For the most part, the American and Japanese comic industries have coexisted in parallel, with minimal crossover. With the abundance of content on offer, it is partly why there are so few productions that make it to the screen featuring a Japanese studio working with American properties or vice versa. Of course, there are outliers; Jiro Kuwata’s Batman manga from the 1960s is a hidden gem worth discovering, and the Japanese live-action Spider-Man is a gloriously entertaining mess.