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The Boxer: Webtoon Gets Anime With First Teaser and Cast
Studios breccia and STUDIO JEMI are producing the series, with Koki Uchiyama in the lead role.
The South Korean webtoon The Boxer by JH is getting a TV anime adaptation. Crunchyroll and the producer HAYATE announced the project on October 8, 2026, during New York Comic Con. A first official teaser shows the characters of the boxing story. No release date has been set yet.
Two Studios Produce the Boxing Anime
The animation is a co-production between the Japanese studio breccia and the South Korean STUDIO JEMI. Yudai Kubota and KANG Wonyeong share directing duties. Toshiya Ono writes the scripts and oversees series composition; Masahiro Suwa designs the characters. BLUE RIGHTS is involved as creative producer, while HAYATE is responsible for overall production.
Four main roles have been cast for the Japanese voices: Koki Uchiyama voices Yu, Kensho Ono takes on Ryu, Tomokazu Seki plays the trainer K, and Toshiyuki Toyonaga plays the boxer J. The cast was revealed together with the first promotional video.
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An Exceptional Boxer at the Center
At the heart of the source material is the teenager Yu, who hardly defends himself against attacks from other young people. The experienced trainer K, who has already coached several world champions, nevertheless recognizes an exceptional talent in him and wants to make him his last student. Yu then begins a career in boxing and meets opponents with different abilities and personal goals.
The webtoon was published from 2019 on NAVER WEBTOON in South Korea and ran from 2020 to 2022 on LINE Manga in Japan as well. According to LINE Digital Frontier, the source work had surpassed 1.06 billion views worldwide by September 2026.
Crunchyroll Takes Over Distribution
Crunchyroll announces a later release on its platform. A specific premiere date, the episode count, and individual regional availability have not yet been disclosed. The Boxer is one of several webtoon projects for which HAYATE, LINE Digital Frontier, and Crunchyroll have announced a joint production strategy.
The adaptation joins a growing number of anime productions based on digital source material. Solo Leveling is also present in the Japanese anime scene; aninew recently reported on the extension of a Solo Leveling exhibition . In parallel, further game adaptations are in development, such as SEKIRO: NO DEFEAT and Death Stranding Isolations.