YMMV / Deadpool: Samurai

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• Genius Bonus: The manga features various references to series published by Jump and its competitors that are likely obvious to its Japanese audience but will fly over the head of many Western readers. The biggest example of this is Loki's defeat: both Deadpools break through his aura with a Double Rakozan and the story pretends to end just like that. This is a panel-by-panel recreation of how Takaya: Senbu Gakuen Gekitouden ended when it was cancelled. That scene had a certain infamy in Japan in the 2000s to the point its author either quit or changed his pen name, but in the Western internet Takaya in general is all but completely unknown.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Deadpool spends several scenes talking about what things he can and cannot get away with in a Jump Comics shonen manga. When the Manga Plus app ran a contest for authors in August 2022, it was far more restrictive than Deadpool could've guessed. Even hugging was forbidden.
• Take That, Scrappy!: The X-Men Origins: Wolverine interpretation of Deadpool, Weapon XI, is loathed by practically everyone for going out of its way to discard everything that makes the character what he is, and so even subsequent official media treats him with contempt. In this manga, Loki tries summoning Weapon XI as a Final Boss but a basic Palette Swap of Deadpool who works for a rival publisher nonchalantly shoots him out of the way before he can do anything.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Although the series is a collaboration between Marvel and Jump, the only guest character is All Might from My Hero Academia, who makes a brief appearance to help Deadpool against Thanos. Even Deadpool is disappointed that for the final battle he just gets help from roughly half of the Avengers. Also, they waste the chance to point out that Deadpool has an expy named Twice in My Hero Academia.
• Unexpected Character: At least for Western fans, the appearance of All Might.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The story was originally published on Shonen Jump+, on which the publisher features more mature stories than what the standard magazine allows for young audiences in modern times. Deadpool points out the restrictions he has to work with in a shonen series: graphic violence is allowed but profanity is censored and he cannot say the word "rape" even if sexual harassment tropes are repeatedly alluded to.

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