WEBTOON and LINE Manga announced that YC and Rakyeon’s popular webtoon, Teenage Mercenary (Mercenary Enrollment), will get an anime adaptation. However, no news concerning the anime production has been made available.
Following the announcement of the anime adaptation, YC, the creator of the webtoon, commented:
“I still remember how nervous I was when I first started planning Teenage Mercenary and when the series began. It’s thanks to the fans who supported us that Teenage Mercenary was able to make it to the anime stage. I want to share this joy with everyone.”
Rakyeon, the illustrator of the webtoon, also commented:
‘When Teenage Mercenary began serialization, I never imagined so many people would love it. I am genuinely thrilled and grateful to meet fans from all over the world in a new form, one that I love, called animation.”
The series first debuted in Korean on Naver WEBTOON in November 2020. It then went on to join LINE Manga in Japan in April 2021 and has accumulated a domestic view count of over 730 million.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manhwa via WEBTOON:
At the age of eight, Ijin Yu lost his parents in a plane crash and became stranded in a foreign land, forced to become a child mercenary to stay alive. He returns home ten years later to be reunited with his family in Korea, where food and shelter are plenty, and everything seems peaceful.
But Ijin will soon learn that life as a teenager is a whole other feat of survival. With only one year of high school left, Ijin must master new tactics to maneuver his way around the schoolhouse battleground. Can he survive a year of high school? Or rather, will the school be able to survive him?
