Teenage Mercenary Anime Announced

An anime adaptation of the Teenage Mercenary manhwa series is in the works at studio J.C.Staff and set for a 2027 release date. Information about the new adaptation, such as a teaser visual and a special trailer, was revealed.

Manabu Ono will be the director and series composer of this adaptation, with Koji Haneda providing character designs and Hiroyuki Sawano composing the music. Studio J.C.STAFF is in charge of the animation.

Teenage Mercenary is written by YC and illustrated by Rakyeon (Rakhyun)/ The webtoon began serialization on LINE Webtoon in June 2021. It's available on the WEBTOON platform in English.

YC and Rakeyon's original Teenage Mercenary story has been described as:

At the age of eight, Ijin Yu lost his parents in a plane crash and became stranded in a foreign land, forced to become a child mercenary in order to stay alive. He returns home ten years later to be reunited with his family in Korea, where food and shelter are plenty and everything seems peaceful. But Ijin will soon learn that life as a teenager is a whole other feat of survival. With only one year of high school left, Ijin must master new tactics to maneuver his way around the schoolhouse battleground. Can he survive a year of high school? Or rather, will the school be able to survive him?

The anime was announced during the Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con alongside The Remarried Empress and The Boxer adaptations.

Source: Press Release
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