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SDCC 2025: WEBTOON Brings Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint and more to Panels

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WEBTOON is coming to SDCC! From print comics to vertical scroll, and an exclusive preview of the first ten minutes of the highly anticipated Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy live-action film—starring superstar singers/actors Lee Min-ho, Ahn Hyo-seop, and BLACKPINK’s Jisoo—WEBTOON has an incredible lineup this year!

Check out the panels below and what you can find at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 from WEBTOON!

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint: The WEBTOON Phenomenon and First Look at the New Film

WHEN: Saturday, 7/26/25
TIME: 11:30AM–12:30PM
WHERE: Room 24ABC

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint has become one of the most iconic and globally beloved series on WEBTOON. This panel will explore the origins and evolution of ORV—from its beginnings as a web novel to its rise as a breakout webcomic hit. We’ll unpack the series’ complex storytelling, immersive worldbuilding, and the passionate global fandom that helped shape its success. Plus, get an exclusive first look at the upcoming live-action film adaptation, bringing Dokja’s journey to the big screen in US theaters August 1. Featuring Ryan Lee (WEBTOON, Head of Content), Vi Ma (213 Pictures & Media, Marketing & Partnerships) and moderated by Megan Peters (ScreenRant, Deputy Editor)

From Page to Pixel: Legendary Comics for a New Generation on WEBTOON

WHEN: Thursday, 7/24/25
TIME: 10:00AM–11:00AM
WHERE: Room 28DE

Join WEBTOON and special guests from IDW, Dark Horse, and Saturday AM as we explore how legendary publishers are redefining iconic stories for the digital age featuring Quinn Sosna-Spear (WEBTOON, Executive Producer), Ethan LeBlanc (WEBTOON, Managing Editor), Bixie Mathieu (IDW, Associate Editor), Cara O’Neil (Dark Horse, Comics VP of Marketing), Whyt Manga (Saturday AM, Co-Owner and Creator) and moderated by Borys Kit (The Hollywood Reporter, Senior Film Writer).

Anime’s Next Era: What’s Fueling the Boom?

WHEN: Friday, 7/25/25
TIME: 10:00AM–11:00AM
WHERE: Room 32AB

Hear from some of the leading brands and industry experts working in anime about the latest trends and predictions for anime in 2025 and beyond featuring Sydney Bright (WEBTOON Productions, Head of Global Animation), Miles Thomas Atherton (White Box Entertainment, CEO and Founder), Kiel Hume (WEBTOON Entertainment, Head of Global Communications) and moderated by Zosha Millman (TV & Film Critic).

Exclusive: Get a look at Art and Commentary for Orson James, Roman Calais, and Jor Ros’ Bad Influence, a Webtoon Original

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HiHi Studios — the manga and anime-led studio co-founded by streaming icon Valkyrae and Range Media’s Kai Gayoso — has announced a partnership with start-up Otherly Productions, a next-generation studio reimagining how original franchises are created, launched, and scaled for today’s audiences. The first of their collaborations is Bad Influence, a high-energy, emotionally-raw sci-fi thriller set in a world of candy-colored lies, illustrated by the Barcelona-based artist Jor Ros and co-written by Orson James and Roman Calais. The first three episodes of Bad Influence are available as a Webtoon Original, with subsequent episodes dropping every Thursday. Readers have the option to unlock up to three additional episodes using Webtoon’s Fast Pass feature.

In Bad Influence, the city of Weisshorn is a surveillance city, where life is a never-ending parade–literally. Mascots smile from every screen, propaganda loops in cheery jingles, and the people are kept docile by distraction. At the center of it all is Oswald, a charismatic dictator with a showman’s flair and a deep need to control the story everyone lives inside. 

The series follows the adventures of Nel — a hot-headed and haunted young woman, who isn’t buying the dream sold to the masses. Nel joins a rebel gang to take the system down. But the deeper she digs, the weirder it gets. She unearths glitches, ghosts, and truths that no one wants uncovered. Reality’s falling apart. And Nel might be next.

Check out the exclusive commentary and art below and check out Bad Influence now!

Here we’ve got our main character Nel coming face to face with some of Oswald’s mascots. They were inspired by 1940s cartoons, an amalgamation of early Disney and Hanna Barbera. The challenge was making them feel real and intimidating without crossing into full-on horror. Visually, we leaned into their cartoon roots, but when you cut them they bleed. They also know what they are, and that self-awareness makes them even weirder. Think Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but with way more menace.

Anime Expo 2025: WEBTOON Entertainment Announces its Programming and Featured Attendees

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WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. is headed to Anime Expo in Los Angeles (July 3 – July 6). WEBTOON will host an exciting slate of panels throughout the four-day event, and make its debut on the Anime Expo show floor with a WEBTOON booth where fans will be able to pick up exclusive merchandise, and meet some of the world’s biggest webcomic creators — including Tower of God creator SIU in his first-ever United States appearance.

Featuring insights from creators uru-chan (unOrdinary) and Brandon Chen (Just a Goblin and Overtime Elite), as well as industry executives and experts, WEBTOON panel programming will explore the intersecting worlds of webcomics and anime. Panels will dive into anime’s complex power systems and stylized action, the growing webcomics-to-anime pipeline, and the crossover between sports, anime, and webcomics.

At the WEBTOON booth located in the Entertainment Hall (E-90), fans will have the opportunity to purchase an exclusive Tower of God poster and meet WEBTOON superstar, Tower of God creator SIU, in his first-ever U.S. signing event. WEBTOON’s booth will also feature interactive games, photo ops, and free collectible WEBTOON signing cards. Attendees can also purchase premium merch at the WEBTOON booth, with one exclusive item dropping each day of the convention.

Creator signings at the WEBTOON booth (E-90) include:

  • Thursday, July 3 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm PT: uru-chan (unOrdinary) and Brandon Chen (Just a Goblin and Overtime Elite)
  • Thursday, July 3 from 2:30pm – 3:30 pm PT: Junepurrr (SubZero) and Red (School Bus Graveyard)
  • Friday, July 4 from 1:00pm – 2:30pm PT: SIU (Tower of God)
  • Saturday, July 5 from 1:00pm – 2:30pm PT: SIU (Tower of God)

WEBTOON Entertainment’s full panel programming details are as follows:

  • The Art of Battle: Creating High-Impact Fights in Manga and Webcomics (Thursday, July 3 at 1:30pm PT in Room 402AB)
  •  The Art of Leveling Up: Designing Power Systems in Anime, Manga, and Webcomics (Friday, July 4 at 5:15pm PT in Room 411)
  • The Fans Go Wild: Sports, Anime, and Webcomics in Pop Culture (Saturday, July 5 at 6:15pm PT in Room 411)
  • Anime, Animation, and Webcomics: What’s Next? (Sunday, July 6 at 2:45pm PT in Room 411)

The Boxer Vol. 10 changes things up and gets philosophical as it debates the meaning of life

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How did a man like K become so hellbent on seeing the pinnacle of human superiority? How did a boy like Yu lose the light in his eyes? Two very different paths converged in space and time and led to this very moment―a moment of life and death, human and monster, power and omnipotence. As Yu and Aaron circle the drain, a god may be born…or a life may be taken!

Covering chapters 87 to 95

Story: JH
Art: JH
Translation: Webtoon
Letterer: Adnazeer Macalangcom

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman is Now Available on WEBTOON

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Manga hit From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman is available today on WEBTOON’s English-language platform. Adapted from the light novel of the same name, the manga has been reformatted for WEBTOON’s vertical scroll format and in full color.

From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman follows middle-aged swordsman Beryl Gardenant, who has only ever accomplished one thing: running a humble sword-fighting dojo in the quiet countryside. But when he’s paid a visit by his former pupil, Allucia, he discovers that she has become an elite commander — and she’s not the only one of his students who’s a renowned warrior. Forced by Allusia to become a special instructor to the strongest order of knights in the kingdom, Beryl must confront whether he’s able to reach his full potential, even as an old man.

The story began as a light novel written by Shigeru Sagazaki and illustrated by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima before it was adapted into a manga with art by Kazuki Sato and an anime that debuted on Prime Video in April 2025. The From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman manga is published and distributed by Yen Press in the United States.

The Boxer Vol. 10 changes things up and gets philosophical as it debates the meaning of life

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How did a man like K become so hellbent on seeing the pinnacle of human superiority? How did a boy like Yu lose the light in his eyes? Two very different paths converged in space and time and led to this very moment―a moment of life and death, human and monster, power and omnipotence. As Yu and Aaron circle the drain, a god may be born…or a life may be taken!

Covering chapters 87 to 95

Story: JH
Art: JH
Translation: Webtoon
Letterer: Adnazeer Macalangcom

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
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WEBTOON and IDW Publishing team for digital webcomics

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WEBTOON Entertainment Inc is partnering with IDW Publishing to bring some of the publisher’s most popular franchises to WEBTOON. The partnership will make WEBTOON’s English-language platform the exclusive digital home of newly reformatted webcomic versions of Godzilla: Unnatural Disasters, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees,and They Called Us Enemy. The first batch of titles from WEBTOON’s IDW slate will launch on April 25, with additional titles to be announced at a later date. 

The first titles in WEBTOON’s slate of digital comic adaptations with IDW Publishing include:

  • Godzilla: Unnatural Disaster  –​The three-part saga featuring Godzilla’s iconic rogues gallery, epic kaiju battles, and a thrilling adventure spanning different time periods – including a trip to the underworld.
  • Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees  –​A dark and twisted tale about Samantha, a small-town bear who lives a double life. By day, she’s the helpful hardware store owner, and by night, she’s a serial killer.
  • They Called Us Enemy  –​The graphic memoir follows actor George Takei as he revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps during World War II in a gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

Celebrating 10 years of Stephen McCranie’s Space Boy

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In 2015, Webtoon hosted its first talent search contest in which cartoonist Stephen McCranie entered the beginnings of his work on his coming-of-age sci-fi opera, Space Boy. Since winning that contest, the Space Boy webcomic has continued its run, garnering almost 500,000 readers, over 91 million views, over 350 episodes, and has been collected by Dark Horse into 20 volumes so far, with more on the way.

David Shinook Lee, Webtoon advisor and previous editor on Space Boy, shares his favorite moments from Space Boy and also celebrates the series’ anniversary:

Space Boy was the winner of WEBTOON’s first global contest, and I’ll never forget the poignant scene where Amy, experiencing Earth for the first time, weeps at the sight of a bird in flight. It’s moments like these that explain why the series not only won our inaugural contest but has continued to resonate with so many space cadets over the past decade, enriching our lives with its joy and wisdom. On this 10th anniversary, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to Stephen, a true pioneer and masterful storyteller.

McCranie shares his thoughts on the series’ lasting power:

Are we alone in the universe? Are we alone as we eat lunch in the school cafeteria? Space Boy is my attempt to answer both of those questions, not just for my audience, but for myself. After ten years of dialoguing with my characters, the answer we have uncovered so far is that you are not alone in feeling alone and that, wherever you are, love can cross light years to reach you.

And Dark Horse editor Brett Israel also adds:

Stephen’s work continues to be powerful and immersive throughout this run, and I cannot wait for what comes next (and I’m guessing it’ll make me tear up). Space Boy Volume 1 was one of the first projects I worked on in my time at Dark Horse, so I feel like I’ve been growing up professionally with this story. Congratulations to Stephen on this artistic achievement!

Space Boy Volumes 1-20 are now available wherever books are sold and volumes 21 and 22 are now available for preorder. Stay tuned for more Space Boy and, in the meantime, join Dark Horse in celebrating ten years of the beloved coming-of-age tale!

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Preview: Nomads: The Sand Kingdom Book 2

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Nomads: The Sand Kingdom Book 2

(W) Captain Juuter (A/CA) Captain Juuter
In Shops: Feb 26, 2025
SRP: $12.99

Lance, Saber and Satra have finally arrived in the Sand Kingdom, ready for the next chapter of their adventure! However, their quest takes an unexpected twist when a seemingly harmless shopping spree plunges them into a web of chaos and mischief. Mistaken identities and a comedy of errors result in the trio facing the wrath of the law, with bounty hunters hot on their trail.

As the stakes escalate, it’s not just the hunters who want a piece of the action, but Kings Guard secret agents as well. With danger closing in from all sides, the trio must forge alliances with both familiar faces and eccentric new companions. Each step forward reveals a new challenge, and they soon realize that the greatest threat may lie in the shadows, waiting to pounce…with a shocking identity that will be revealed!

Creator Captain Juuter continues the fan favorite Webtoon series in print form with this new edition collecting episodes 24-53 of Nomads!

Nomads: The Sand Kingdom Book 2

The Boxer Vol. 9 emphasizes the monster that K is and the monsters he wants to create

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Yu has almost conquered the boxing world, and all that’s left is to defeat Aaron Tide and claim the heavyweight belt. But before their long-awaited match, Tide’s sudden retirement throws a wrench in that plan. Despite the setback, K continues to prepare Yu as if the fight will happen. He knows the inner workings of Aaron’s heart ―and he’s sure that this isn’t a battle his former pupil can simply run away from. And a surprise visitor to Aaron’s front doorstep could be the push he needs to enter the ring for one last brawl…

Covering chapters 78 to 86

Story: JH
Art: JH
Translation: Webtoon
Letterer: Adnazeer Macalangcom

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon

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