Anime
Webtoon ‘The Boxer’ Gets TV Anime
The Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con 2026 announced a television anime adaptation of Ji-Hoon Jeong‘s The Boxer webtoon on Thursday, revealing the main cast, staff, and a special promotional trailer.
Cast
Yu: Kouki Uchiyama (Blue Lock)
J: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Bungou Stray Dogs)
K: Tomokazu Seki (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Ryu Baeksan: Kensho Ono (Vinland Saga)
Staff
Director: Takehiro Kubota (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon), Won-yeong Kang (Cardfight!! Vanguard: overDress main animation)
Character Design: Masahiro Suwa (Made in Abyss)
Series Composition/Script: Toshiya Oono (Yakusoku no Neverland)
Creative Producer: Blue Rights
Producer: Hayate
Co-Producer: Naver Webtoons, Crunchyroll, Xtorm
Studio: breccia, Studio Jemi
Jeong serialized the sports drama webtoon on the Naver Webtoon platform from December 2019 to May 2022. Daewon C.I. published the 13th and final volume in September 2025.
Line Webtoon published the series digitally in English from May 2020. Yen Press licenced the series in July 2022 and published the 13th volume on May 19.
Synopsis
Having suffered ruthless bullying for the better part of his life, 17-year-old Yu has become emotionally numb and dissociated from reality, no longer able to act like a normal human being. Although he possesses the exceptional talent to dodge punches, Yu prefers to let his perpetrators beat him down as he finds no meaning in his survival.
Things begin to look up when Yu meets an old boxing trainer nicknamed “K.” Having raised five champions, K’s years of experience and an impressive gut feeling allow him to recognize Yu’s near-superhuman fighting charisma immediately. K rushes to take Yu under his wing, despite the latter’s apparent lack of interest.
However, after being reminded of a bright memory from the past, Yu has a change of heart and accepts K’s offer, hoping to experience the same light once again. Thus, Yu enters a world full of formidable adversaries—righteous and monstrous alike—and for the first time ever, he has no choice but to fight back. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Special Promotional Trailer
Source: Comic Natalie
The Boxer on MAL
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The Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con 2026 revealed the main staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and an announcement promo for the television anime adaptation of YC‘s Teenage Mercenary webtoon on Thursday. The anime series will premiere in 2027.
Staff
Director, Series Composition: Manabu Ono (Dead Mount Death Play)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Kouji Haneda (Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf)
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Studio: J.C.Staff
Producer: Hayate
YC began serializing the school action webtoon on Naver Webtoon (now Webtoon) in November 2020, featuring illustrations by Rakhyun.
Webtoon Entertainment has published the webtoon digitally in English, Spanish, French, German, Thai, Chinese, and Indonesian. The title has reached a total of 2.84 billion views globally.
Announcement
Official site: http://teenagemercenary-anime.com/
Official X: @nyugakuyohei_pr
Source: PR Times
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The Crunchyroll showcase at New York Comic Con 2026 revealed additional cast and staff for the anime adaptation of Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima video game on Thursday. The anime has been delayed to 2028 from its originally planned 2027 premiere.
Mayumi Saco (Vinland Saga Season 2) and Shinya Fukumatsu (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi) are joining the cast. Their respective characters have yet to be revealed.
Staff
Script: Satoshi Maejima (Renji Ooki) (Bubble)
Character Design: Takashi Okazaki (Summer Wars)
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami (Sword Art Online)
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama (No Game No Life)
Music: Keiji Inai (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka)
Production: Hayate
Takanobu Mizuno (Star Wars: Visions) is helming the anime at Kamikaze Douga. Screenwriter Gen Urobuchi (Psycho-Pass) is handling the series composition. The anime series is being produced by Crunchyroll, Aniplex, Sony Music, and PlayStation Productions.
Developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Ghost of Tsushima was released on PlayStation 4 in July 2020, with a multiplayer expansion subtitled Legends released in October that year. The game was also ported to PlayStation 5 in August 2021 and on PC in May 2024. The sequel, Ghost of Yotei, was released on Playstation 5 in October 2025.
Source: Comic Natalie
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Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con on Thursday that J.C. Staff is animating the previously announced adaptation of YC and Rakyeon’s original webtoon Teenage Mercenary (Nyūgaku Yōhei in Japanese) for broadcast next year.
Manabu Ono (Sword Art Online: Alicization) is directing and overseeing the series scripts, and Koji Haneda is designing the characters. Hiroyuki Sawano is composing the music. Hayate is producing the project.
WEBTOON started publishing the series in English in June 2021 and describes the story:
At the age of eight, Yu Ijin (Sōma Tatewaki in Japanese version) 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 series launched in Korean on Naver Webtoon in November 2020. The series then launched on LINE Manga in Japan in April 2021, and has a cumulative domestic view count of over 730 million (as of May 2025). The series won first place in the “LINE Manga 2023 Annual Ranking,” and also the next year in the “LINE Manga 2024 Annual Ranking (serialized).”
The series is distributed in 10 languages and has over 2.84 billion views worldwide (as of September 2026).
Sources: Teenage Mercenary anime’s website, Comic Natalie, press release
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