A TV anime adaptation of Teenage Mercenary, originally created by Rakyeon and published by YC, has officially been announced. Further details have yet to be revealed.
Official announcement:
It is available in 10 languages worldwide and has amassed a total of 1.86 billion views globally as of May. The series became available in Japan starting April 2021. It claimed the top spot in both the LINE Manga 2023 Annual Ranking and the LINE Manga 2024 Annual Serial Ranking.
Webtoon describes Teenage Mercenary as follows:
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?
Sources: Official X, Deadline
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