Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con that J.C. Staff is producing the anime adaptation of the hit webtoon Teenage Mercenary (known in Japan as Nyūgaku Yōhei) by creators YC and Rakyeon. The series is scheduled to broadcast in 2027.
Staff
- Director / Series Script Supervisor: Manabu Ono (Sword Art Online: Alicization, Dead Mount Death Play)
- Character Design: Koji Haneda (Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf, The Faraway Paladin)
- Music: Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Kingdom, The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Project Production: HAYATE
Story
At the age of eight, Yu Ijin (voiced in the Japanese version by Sōma Tatewaki) lost his parents in a plane crash and was stranded in a foreign country, where he was forced to become a child mercenary to survive. Ten years later, he finally returns home to Korea and is reunited with his family — a world of warm meals and apparent peace. But Ijin quickly discovers that navigating high school is its own kind of battlefield. With only one year left, he must apply his hard-won survival instincts to an entirely new arena. The real question: can he survive high school — or will high school survive him?
Publication History & Popularity
The webtoon originally launched in Korean on Naver Webtoon in November 2020. An English-language version followed on WEBTOON in June 2021, and the series arrived on LINE Manga in Japan in April 2021, accumulating over 730 million domestic views as of May 2025.
The series claimed first place in the LINE Manga 2023 Annual Ranking and repeated the feat in the LINE Manga 2024 Annual Ranking (serialized category). It is currently available in 10 languages and has surpassed 2.84 billion views worldwide as of September 2026.
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