Joseph Luster
June 19, 2025 
A TV anime adaptation is officially in the works for Teenage Mercenary, a webtoon by YC and Rakyeon. The announcement came from Naver WEBTOON’s Japanese subsidiary LINE manga, but we’ll have to wait for further details.
The Teenage Mercenary webtoon first kicked off in November 2020 and has found itself on top of the service’s annual readership rankings a few times in the years since. Check out the announcement below, and read on for the series’s official description.
Synopsis:
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 in order 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?
For more on webtoons, be sure to read our interview with producer Regina Han!
Source: Crunchyroll News
