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Announced: co-productions of anime adaptations for around 15 webtoon titles · 2026-10-09
Noted: a venture staffed by Aniplex and Crunchyroll employees · 2026-10-09

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Crunchyroll, HAYATE and LINE Digital Frontier Team for Around 15 Webtoon Anime

Crunchyroll, HAYATE Inc., and WEBTOON Entertainment subsidiary LINE Digital Frontier have partnered on co-productions of anime adaptations for around 15 select webtoon titles, starting from the development stage. All the titles are available through LINE Digital Frontier's app, including the already announced The Boxer, The Remarried Empress, and Teenage Mercenary. Crunchyroll will stream the resulting anime in select territories.

Aug 28

Live-Action Ao no Hana Utsuwa no Mori Casts Hayate Ichinose

NHK announced that Hayate Ichinose will play male lead Tatsuki Manabe in the live-action series of Yuki Kodama's Ao no Hana Utsuwa no Mori manga. Rena Matsui also stars. The series premieres on NHK's Yorudora block this fall. The manga ran in Shogakukan's Flowers from March 2018 to March 2022.