The Boxer Webtoon Gets Anime
The Boxer manhwa series is getting an anime adaptation with a yet-unannounced release date. Takehiro Kubota and Kang Wonyeong will direct this new series alongside Toshiya Ono on the series composition and scripts, and Masahiro Suwa on the character designs. Check out the pre-animated trailer:
Newly founded Japanese studio breccia and the South Korean STUDIO JEMI will produce the animation, and BLUE RIGHTS is credited as creative producer.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime. The cast includes:
- Koki Uchiyama as Yu
- Kensho Ono as Ryu
- Tomokazu Seki as K
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga as J
The Boxer by Jung Ji-Hoon, also known as JH, was serialized on Naver Webtoon from December 2019 to June 2022. It's available on the WEBTOON platform in English.
Yen Press publishes physical volumes of The Boxer manhwa in English, describing the plot like so:
While searching for a final prodigy to train, legendary boxing coach K stumbles across a bewildering scene—an apathetic teenager simply standing still as his bullies throttle him. But Coach K sees more than this, sees the precision, grace, and uncanny perceptiveness in the boy’s movements. He knows right away that this is the fighter he’s been waiting for. Yet when he tries to recruit him, the boy with the lifeless eyes only asks one question: “Is it any fun? Hitting people…Is it fun?”
The Boxer anime will be co-produced by LINE Manga, Crunchyroll, XTORM, and, as mentioned above, BLUE RIGHTS. The anime was announced during Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con alongside The Remarried Empress and Teenage Mercenary adaptations.
Source: Press Release
