Jaedam Media, the publisher of the popular webtoon series Hero Killer by Kkulbeol (story) and Beolkkul (art), announced that the series will receive an animated adaptation, produced in collaboration with French streaming service Animation Digital Network (ADN).
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Nate News reports that the animation production contract was concluded at the SPP International Content Market 2025. Jaedam Media CEO Hwang Nam-yong said that the collaboration with ADN represents the competitiveness of webtoons in the global market as animations. ADN Head of Content Development Bastien Guetta, whose company is in charge of producing the animation, shared his excitement and expectation for webtoons to bring significant change to the global content industry. He added that ADN is looking forward to further animated adaptations of Korean IPs in the future.
The Hero Killer animated adaptation follows ADN’s collaboration with several Japanese companies, including SKY Perfect Pictures, Kodansha, and others on the Fermat Kitchen anime; ADN General Manager Julien Lemoine was credited among the series’ planners. As an aside, it was recently revealed that crowdfunding company CAMPFIRE had joined Fermat Kitchen‘s anime production committee.
WEBTOON serializes Hero Killer in English. The series has over 97.4 million views and over 1 million subscribers (on the US-based platform). Hero Killer is described:
The world is in constant turmoil, with constant wars breaking out between Heroes and Villains. Gifted with supernatural abilities, one lone girl sets out on a bloody path for revenge against the injustices of the world she lives in. With the constant clashes between titans, no one is safe. If no one is willing to protect the innocent, who are the real heroes, and who are the real villains? What truly separates one from the other?
Source: Nate News
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