The Remarried Empress is becoming an anime. At New York Comic Con 2026, HAYATE, LINE Digital Frontier — a subsidiary of WEBTOON Entertainment — and Crunchyroll announced a co-production to adapt about 15 webtoons, with joint development from the start. The stage was not only about the game anime already revealed at the same event.
As described by Animation Magazine, HAYATE leads development and production in collaboration with Crunchyroll and LINE Digital Frontier. Crunchyroll will exclusively stream the resulting anime in selected territories. Each announced title is based on a webcomic available in LINE Digital Frontier's app.
What debuted on stage
The Remarried Empress was announced as a new adaptation, with character art and a promo trailer that revealed the main staff and cast. Animation Magazine does not transcribe the cast names in the article text; they appear in the Crunchyroll trailer. The video is at The Remarried Empress | Special Promo Trailer.
Teenage Mercenary received a teaser visual and an action promo trailer, also on YouTube: Teenage Mercenary | Special Promo Trailer. No premiere date has been confirmed for either title.
The same block included The Boxer, the webtoon adaptation with its own trailer. That announcement was already covered separately on Geekiki, with a cast including Koki Uchiyama, Kensho Ono and Tomokazu Seki. What this story adds is the roughly 15-title deal and the two other projects named on stage.
Why it matters
The slate links LINE's Korean webtoon catalog to HAYATE-led production and a Crunchyroll exclusive window in part of the territories. It is not a closed list of 15 works: Animation Magazine refers to potential adaptations of about 15 selected titles. Only three were named publicly in this announcement.
Sources
- Animation Magazine: NYCC and WEBTOON adaptations
- The Remarried Empress promo trailer
- Teenage Mercenary promo trailer
Image credit: The Remarried Empress art, ©A,S,H,M-L, TREP, published by Animation Magazine in its NYCC coverage.
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