One Operation Joker

A comedy manga about Batman turning into a baby so the Joker decides to take care of him and raise him.

We’ve discussed this on a previous episode.

While the premise sound amazing and hilarious, the execution of this manga is a bit lacking. The comedic focus is on how parenting is difficult so Joker changes his murderous ways to try and raise Batman the right way. It feels like they’re changing Joker’s character too much for the sake of this manga’s gimmick. I got the sense that the writer Satoshi Miyagawa was basing his Joker on the 2019 Joker film which doesn’t really match with other characters like Harley Quinn appearing later. But I did like how artist Keisuke Gotou draws such a cute baby Batman. All in all, this is probably still the best serialized manga based on Western Comics right now. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it put out in English from Kodansha or DC in the future.

You can read it online in Japanese on Comic Days.

~dakazu