Teenage Mercenary Webtoon Gets Animated Adaptation
LINE Manga announced on Thursday that YC and rak hyun's (also romanized as rakhyun and Rakyeon) original webtoon Teenage Mercenary (Nyūgaku Yōhei in Japanese) will get an animated adaptation (it is not yet confirmed if the adaptation is Japanese animated or not). WEBTOON started publishing the series in English in June 2021 and describes the story: 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 a total of 1.86 billion views worldwide (as of May 2025).Sources: LINE Manga's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie, PR Times
