The Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con 2026 revealed the main staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and an announcement promo for the television anime adaptation of YC's Teenage Mercenary (Nyuugaku Youhei) webtoon on Thursday. The anime series will premiere in 2027.

Staff
Director, Series Composition: Manabu Ono (Dead Mount Death Play)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Kouji Haneda (Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf)
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Studio: J.C.Staff
Producer: Hayate

YC began serializing the school action webtoon on Naver Webtoon (now Webtoon) in November 2020, featuring illustrations by Rakhyun.

Webtoon Entertainment has published the webtoon digitally in English, Spanish, French, German, Thai, Chinese, and Indonesian. The title has reached a total of 2.84 billion views globally.

Announcement


Official site: http://teenagemercenary-anime.com/
Official X: @nyugakuyohei_pr

Source: PR Times