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Mercenary Enrollment TV Anime Announced for 2027 with Director Manabu Ono and Hiroyuki Sawano

A boy returns from ten years as a mercenary and enrolls at his sister’s high school. The webtoon, a two-time LINE Manga annual number one, is becoming a J.C.STAFF anime.

October 9, 2026 13:40animecca editorsUpdated October 24, 2026

A former mercenary is putting on a high school uniform! The Korean webtoon *Mercenary Enrollment* is getting a TV anime in 2027. The official site announced it October 9, and HAYATE Inc.’s channel released an announcement video.

The Story

Soma Taito was the lone survivor of a plane crash at age eight. Having lost his memory, he had to live as a mercenary in a foreign country. Ten years later, his memories return and he reunites with family, enrolling at the high school attended by his sister Yurina. There he confronts the violence and wrongdoing around him.

YC created the original work and rakhyun draws it. The series began on Korea’s NAVER WEBTOON in 2020 and runs on LINE Manga in Japan. It ranked number one on LINE Manga’s annual chart in both 2023 and 2024. Available in ten languages, it had more than 2.84 billion cumulative views as of September 2026.

Staff

Manabu Ono directs and handles series composition, Koji Haneda designs the characters and serves as chief animation director, Hiroyuki Sawano scores the music, and J.C.STAFF produces the animation. The teaser visual shows Soma in school uniform with a calm expression. Cast and more precise broadcast timing are still to come.