>>8723297>or did he just slap that on various figures to give an excuse to make more weird variants of his characters?Pretty much. Like
>>8723308said, the figures have no relation to the actual manga that was made. In essence, these toys are sort of a "what if?" scenario. Like "what if Spawn was a manga? Wouldn't the designs be wild and crazy?" That's why you also had stuff like Manga Spawn being a Super Robot style mech suit, or Manga Violator being this emaciated demon with big metal legs. It was a look into what Todd thought manga was at the time.