The anime is based on a Korean manhwa written by YC and illustrated by Rakyeon.
Crunchyroll announced during the New York Comic Con 2026 that the previously announced anime adaptation of the “Teenage Mercenary” webtoon is coming out in 2027. A new teaser video was also released for the anime, which unveiled its main staff.
Teenage Mercenary
Premiere window: 2027
Animation studio: J.C. Staff
Streaming platform: Crunchyroll
What do we know about the “Teenage Mercenary” anime so far?
The anime is set to premiere sometime in 2027.
Manabu Ono directs the upcoming action anime at studio J.C. Staff, and also serves as the series composer. Koji Haneda is designing the characters while Hiroyuki Sawano composes the music.
No cast members have been revealed as of yet.
An illustration of the anime’s main character Ijin Yu was made by the manhwa’s illustrator Rakyeon to celebrate the adaptation.
What is “Teenager Mercenary” about?
YC and Rakyeon’s manhwa first began serialising on Naver Corporation’s Naver Webtoon platform in November 2020.
Webtoon describes the story as:
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?