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

Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con on Friday a television anime adaptation of HereLee and SUMPUL‘s webtoon The Remarried Empress. (The webtoon is itself based on Alphatart‘s original web novel.) TROYCA is animating the project for broadcast next year.

The main cast members are:

Tetsuya Yanagisawa is directing the anime at TROYCA, and Akiko Inoue is supervising and writing the series scripts. Jun Nakai is designing the characters, and Yūki Fukazawa is composing the music.

The romantic fantasy revolves around Navier, the perfect Empress of the Eastern Empire, who chooses divorce after discovering that her husband, Emperor Sovieshu, plans to replace her with his mistress. Determined to reclaim her status, Navier resolves to become an Empress in another land.

The webtoon has over 2.97 billion global views and has been translated into 10 languages. The series has a strong international following, particularly in Japan.

The webtoon ended in January after a seven-year run, but will return this fall for side stories.

The English version of the The Remarried Empress webtoon is available on WEBTOON. Ize Press is releasing the series in print.

The webtoon is also inspiring a live-action series which will premiere on Disney+ and Hulu on November 4, and the services will release two new episodes every Wednesday through the series finale on November 25 (for a total of 10 episodes).

Sources: The Remarried Empress anime’s website, Comic Natalie, press release