The Boxer Webtoon Gets TV Anime From breccia And Studio Jemi
The adaptation pairs a new Japanese studio built by a Kinema Citrus founding producer with a Korean animation house, produced by the Aniplex and Crunchyroll venture HAYATE Inc., a structure that shows how webtoon-to-anime projects are now assembled across both markets.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con that JH's The Boxer webtoon is getting a television anime. New studio breccia, founded by producer Muneki Ogasawara, and Korean studio Studio Jemi are animating it. Takehiro Kubota and Won Yeong Kang direct, Masahiro Suwa designs characters, and Toshiya Ono oversees and writes scripts. Kōki Uchiyama, Kenshō Ono, Tomokazu Seki, and Toshiyuki Toyonaga star.
The Boxer is being made by breccia, a new Japanese studio founded by Kinema Citrus founding member and producer Muneki Ogasawara, and Korean studio Studio Jemi. Takehiro Kubota, whose credits include the My Happy Marriage anime franchise, directs alongside Won Yeong Kang, a key and main animator on the Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress and will+Dress titles. Toshiya Ono, who worked on 86 and The Promised Neverland, oversees and writes the series scripts, with Masahiro Suwa on character design.
The production venture HAYATE Inc. produces, with LINE Manga, Crunchyroll, XTORM, and BLUE RIGHTS as co-producers. The voice cast is Kōki Uchiyama as Yu, Kenshō Ono as Ryu, Tomokazu Seki as K, and Toshiyuki Toyonaga as J.
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