{"rewrite":{"id":"r_cfda9c70e4ad795b0ceb8a56","clusterId":"c_79b6fe76ae541be910ff3580","slug":"crunchyroll-hayate-and-line-digital-frontier-team-for-around-15-webtoon-anime","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Crunchyroll, HAYATE and LINE Digital Frontier Team for Around 15 Webtoon Anime","summary":"Crunchyroll, HAYATE Inc., and WEBTOON Entertainment subsidiary LINE Digital Frontier have partnered on co-productions of anime adaptations for around 15 select webtoon titles, starting from the development stage. All the titles are available through LINE Digital Frontier's app, including the already announced The Boxer, The Remarried Empress, and Teenage Mercenary. Crunchyroll will stream the resulting anime in select territories.","whyItMatters":"The deal folds webtoon adaptation into the same pipeline as Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, with HAYATE, a venture staffed by Aniplex and Crunchyroll employees, handling development for Crunchyroll's platform.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eCrunchyroll announced the partnership at New York Comic Con on Thursday. HAYATE Inc., founded in March 2025 and based in Tokyo, is led by Chairman and CEO Masanori Miyake of Aniplex and President and COO Leo Watanabe, with a staff drawn from Aniplex and Crunchyroll. It focuses on planning, developing, and producing anime for Crunchyroll\u0026#39;s streaming platform worldwide.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLINE Digital Frontier operates LINE Manga, the Japanese subsidiary of Naver Webtoon, and CEO Shin-bae Kim said in February 2025 that the company would produce 20 webtoon animated adaptations that year.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"LINE Digital Frontier's app is the source pool for the Crunchyroll and HAYATE pipeline, but the three titles named so far are the ones already visible. The other twelve decide whether this is a slate or a pilot.","twitterPost":"Of the around 15 titles, only The Boxer, The Remarried Empress and Teenage Mercenary are named. The rest carry the deal.","threadsPost":"LINE Digital Frontier's app holds the around 15 titles feeding the Crunchyroll and HAYATE co-productions, yet the deal names only The Boxer, The Remarried Empress and Teenage Mercenary. Those three are the known floor. The remaining dozen are the part that has to justify a slate rather than a single test.","newsletterBlurb":"Crunchyroll, HAYATE Inc. and LINE Digital Frontier are partnering on co-productions of anime adaptations for around 15 webtoon titles, developed from the start for Crunchyroll's platform. The Boxer, The Remarried Empress and Teenage Mercenary are among the titles. HAYATE, staffed by Aniplex and Crunchyroll employees, is also overseeing the Ghost of Tsushima: Legends anime.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-09/crunchyroll-hayate-line-digital-frontier-partner-to-produce-anime-of-around-15-webtoons/.242667\",\"title\":\"Crunchyroll, HAYATE, LINE Digital Frontier Partner to Produce Anime of 'Around' 15 Webtoons\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4332,"outputTokens":660,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791541332,"createdAt":"2026-10-09T10:16:30.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T10:21:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T10:21:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_79b6fe76ae541be910ff3580","canonicalTitle":"News\nCrunchyroll, HAYATE, LINE Digital Frontier Partner to Produce Anime of 'Around' 15 Webtoons","representativeArticleId":"a_bc2725fbbcbc3638767a700e","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Crunchyroll\",\"HAYATE\",\"LINE Digital Frontier\",\"WEBTOON Entertainment\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"business\",\"domain\":\"industry\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-09T08:23:05.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-09T08:23:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T10:21:05.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-09/crunchyroll-hayate-line-digital-frontier-partner-to-produce-anime-of-around-15-webtoons/.242667","title":"News\nCrunchyroll, HAYATE, LINE Digital Frontier Partner to Produce Anime of 'Around' 15 Webtoons"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Crunchyroll","HAYATE","LINE Digital Frontier","WEBTOON Entertainment"],"people":[],"type":"business","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}