J.C. Staff Animates Teenage Mercenary for 2027 Broadcast
The adaptation hands a webtoon with a large worldwide readership to a studio that produces multiple series a year, with Sawano and Ono attached, and puts the announcement on Crunchyroll's New York Comic Con stage rather than a Japanese event.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con on Thursday that J.C. Staff is animating the adaptation of YC and Rakyeon's webtoon Teenage Mercenary for broadcast next year. Manabu Ono directs and oversees series scripts, Koji Haneda designs characters, Hiroyuki Sawano composes music, and Hayate produces. The webtoon launched on Naver Webtoon in November 2020, has over 2.84 billion views worldwide, and is distributed in 10 languages.
The production credits were named alongside the broadcast window. Manabu Ono, whose directing credits include Sword Art Online: Alicization, handles direction and series scripts, Koji Haneda designs the characters, and Hiroyuki Sawano composes. Hayate produces.
The source webtoon runs in 10 languages with over 2.84 billion views worldwide as of September 2026, and its domestic Japanese view count on LINE Manga passed 730 million as of May 2025. It placed first in the LINE Manga annual rankings for both 2023 and 2024, according to the same announcement.
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- Anime News Network News J.C. Staff Animates Teenage Mercenary Webtoon for 2027 Broadcast