LINE Manga, the Japanese subsidiary of Naver WEBTOON, today announced that a TV anime adaptation of YC and Rakyeon's popular Teenage Mercenary webtoon is in production. The series has topped the service's annual readership rankings multiple times since its serialization began in November 2020. Additional details about the adaptation, such as staff, cast and release date, were not confirmed at the time of reporting. RELATED: CloverWorks Releases Two Short Films Based on Hit Webtoons Webtoon describes the story of Teenage Mercenary : 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? Source: Official X (formerly Twitter), Deadline
