T5W#170-Top 5 Marvel Heroes Who Need An Anime Adaptation

It’s hard to believe that one of the greatest legends in all of history is no longer with us.  Stan “The Man” Lee gave us so much more than just Marvel Comics.  He gave us our childhoods and introduced us to the power of imagination through hundreds of stories and double the amount of amazing characters.  This weeks Top 5 was going to be the second half of my Gundam Theme Song Two Parter.  However, I cant ignore such a big loss to the nerd fan community.  So this weeks Top 5 is dedicated especially to the memory of Stan Lee as I count down my Top 5 Marvel Heroes Who Need An Anime Adaptation…Excelsior dear sir. Couple of quick rules: I wont be including any heroes from Marvel ive had on prior lists superhero themed Top 5s.  Also, any hero who’s already had an official Marvel adaptation (Blade, Iron Man, Wolverine and the X Men) wont be included as well.  For more Stan Lee appretiation, also feel free to check out my (very) old Top 5 list of the Top 5 X Men Who Need Their Own Anime right here: http://gundamanimeblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/t5w41-top-5-x-men-who-need-their-own.html

#5-Luke Cage

The recent (and sudden) cancellation of Luke Cage on Netflix has not sat well with anyone.  Even if the show was a bit uneven, it still had a lot of power and charm to its storytelling and Mike Colter rocked it as the Hero of Harlem.  While a surprise return isn’t ever out of the realm of possibility, what about an Anime approach?  Luke Cage’s Harlem battles against supervillains to keep the community together feel like it could work well with the kind of Anime/Hip Hop formula that made Afro Samurai and even The Boondocks so popular with Anime fans.  Heck throw in a soundtrack akin to Samurai Champloo and it’s a Sweet Christmas for everyone…even more so if you could get Mike Colter back to do the voice of Luke.

#4-Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange’s big screen debut a couple of years back sported some of the trippiest visuals in the MCU to date.  Such on screen magic could be replicated by the right Anime studio.  And what better one to recommend than the studio that brought us Madoka Magica and the Monogatari series.  Studio Shaft has a penchant for animating the hell out of everything, so much that there isn’t a single thing on a screen standing still.  Considering the good Doctor Strange likes to jump through realms and other dimensions with many moving parts, I think Shaft is more than up to the challenge of giving us the best Doctor Strange Anime of all time.

#3-Silk

Silk has been one of my favorite Marvel heroines since her inception and I think she is woefully underused in the Marvel universe.  This Korean American beauty, Cindy Moon, was bitten by the same radioactive spider who bit Peter Parker, aka your friendly neighborhood Spider Man.  Cindy was locked in a cell for 10 years to keep her safe from an army of interdimensional Spider Power feeding Vampires (yep that was a thing) before she was discovered by Peter and brought into the fight to stop them.  One of the things I liked about Silk’s criminally brief solo comics run was the artwork.  It always felt very Manga inspired, ergo it would be cool to see it in Anime form.  Plus Cindy is a huuuuuge Pokemon fan, always a plus.

#2-Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers was one of the first Marvel heroines I ever read about and she’s been the best forever.  Once Ms. Marvel, the now proud standing Captain Marvel is the strongest heroine in the Marvel Universe.  She cant quite take Thanos out with “one punch” a la Saitama but her power could rival that of a Super Saiyan warrior (possibly as high as 3 but im not here to compare power levels across different mediums).  This mean a Captain Marvel Anime could sport some serious action scenes with Dragon Ball Z or One Punch Man levels of awesome.  The fact that we’ll finally be getting Carol on the big screen next year as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe makes this seem a bit more timely.  We all need a bit more Carol Danvers in our lives.

#1-Ms Marvel

Kamala Kahn is the quintessential superheroine otaku we never thought we ever wanted but are so glad we got anyway.  This Pakistani American teen living in Jersey City is the biggest Avengers nerd like ever, she even writes her own fan fiction.  When she gains powers through her dormant Inhuman genes, Kamala decides to take up the former namesake of her greatest idol, the aforementioned Carol Danvers, and becomes the new Ms. Marvel.  Besides being a pop culture spouting goof ball with the ability to regulate the size of her body, Kamala is the kindest girl who embodies the true ideology of what it means to be a hero (especially in recent years when her idols have been punching each other more than bad guys).  Kamala would fit right in with the likes of Deku and Class 1-A over in the world of My Hero Academia…actually could we make that a surprise America/Japan co-production please (maybe throw in Silk and Supergirl but im getting into my own fan fictions now lol).  The world needs Kamala Kahn, more so the world needs a Kamala Kahn Ms Marvel Anime…make this happen Japan.


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