I, Spider-Man

I, Spider-Man (Japanese: 私、スパイダーマン Hepburn: Watashi, Supaidāman) is a Japanese manga based on the American property of Spider-Man. The manga is published by Jump Square, with the translated volumes being published overseas by Marvel Comics. The comic is a retelling of the Spider-Man story, setting it in Tokyo, Japan.

Main

 * Sanji Seiya/Spider-Man - the main protagonist of the comic who is bitten by a strange spider that grants him spider-like abilities.

Recurring

 * Maaya Seiya - Seiya's aunt and his only parental figure after the death of his parents. Almost everyone refers to her as "oba", meaning aunt in Japanese.
 * Haruto Osborn - Seiya's half-American best friend who is incredibly rich. He does everything to improve but is a rather large underachiever.
 * Mari Watanabe - a rather popular and kind-hearted student at Midtown High who almost everyone has a crush on, including Seiya.
 * Shino Kuronuma - The head of the Daily Bugle who despises Spider-Man.
 * Eisuke Takahashi - a football player at Midtown High who is Seiya's main bully. Despite this, he has a very love/hate relationship with him.
 * Ayu Dobashi - a teacher at Seiya's school who he looks up to quite a bit. She is the first totally original character to be introduced in the series.

Antagonists

 * Roman Osborn/Green Goblin - an American businessman and Haruto's father. Unbeknownst to most people, he is actually a supervillain known as the Green Goblin.
 * Dr. Ryōji Taku/Doctor Octopus - Seiya's former role model turned horrifying super-criminal that has four metal arms attached to his back.
 * Nobuo Takata/Venom - a member of the Japanese Maggia who later on gets his hands on an alien symbiote, turning him into one of Seiya's worst enemies.
 * Reo Tabara/Scorpion - a student who has an obsession with Spider-Man, developing a suit to become like him.
 * Vulture - a criminal enforcer who keeps himself active with a mechanical suit that has massive wings and talons on his feet.
 * Okimoto Shigaki/Lizard - a military scientist who was mutated into a large lizard monster that he has no control over.
 * Electro - a man who has incredible electrokinetic abilities. Despite this though, he is nothing but a petty thief.
 * Silvermane - a very old man who is in charge of the Maggia. Due to his age, he uses a mechanical exoskeleton to keep himself active.
 * Kraven the Hunter - a Russian man who is obsessed with finding and killing bigger and bigger enemies. He has the ability to take on the abilities of anything that he eats.
 * Shocker - a criminal who steals sonic gauntlets.
 * White Rabbit - an insane former scientist obsessed with rabbits.

Plot
In a fictionalized version of Tokyo, a student at Midtown High School named Sanji Seiya is bitten by a genetically mutated radioactive spider, granting him the abilities of the spider. With these powers, he becomes a famous hero who Japan has dubbed Spider-Man.

Story Arcs

 * Learning to Crawl (1-?)

Chapters

 * 1) /The Beginning of Something Amazing!/ - High School student Sanji Seiya is bitten by a genetically mutated radioactive spider, warping his DNA.
 * 2) /Learning to Crawl/ - Seiya begins experimenting with his powers, deciding to use them to make money any way possible.

Trivia

 * Due to it being rather hard to convey sarcasm in the Japanese language, Seiya is a lot more serious-minded than Peter Parker, though every so often he makes a joke about his enemy's appearance or mannerisms.
 * Just like how Otto Octavius' last name is a play on the word "octopus", Ryōji Taku's last name is a play on the Japanese word for octopus "tako."
 * It has been confirmed that Kraven's first name in the series is Sergei but it is unknown if his last name is Kravinoff like in the original comics.