WEBTOON Launches Global Drop With The Warrior's Ballad
WEBTOON is treating its translation pipeline as a release tool rather than a back catalog process, putting new and returning series in nine languages at once so overseas readers are no longer months behind the Korean run.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
WEBTOON Entertainment launched The Warrior's Ballad on September 19 in Korean, Japanese, English, French, German, Spanish, Thai, Indonesian, and Traditional Chinese, the company's first simultaneous release across nine language services under a new Global Drop initiative. The fantasy series is written by Dodongpa, adapted by Namwoon, and drawn by Street Bard, based on Dodongpa's web novel. It follows a sword master reincarnated 100 years after his death as a boy named Ricardt.
The release covers nine language services at once, with no delay between regions. Global Drop is the company's term for that model, and it applies to new and returning webtoons rather than back catalog material.
The Warrior's Ballad runs on the strength of a web novel by Dodongpa, who also writes the webtoon. Namwoon handles the adaptation and Street Bard draws it. The premise is reincarnation on a century's delay: a sword master returns as a boy named Ricardt. English readers get it on WEBTOON alongside the other eight language editions.
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