Tomb Raider King is charging into the tomb on July 8.
The Korean-studio-animated series will premiere on July 8 in Japan. Produced by STUDIO EEK, the voice cast stars Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryoga Goriki, Saori Hayami as Irene Holton, Junichi Suwabe as Taisei Ogawara, Miyu Irino as Kotaro Yanagi, and Nobuhiko Okamoto as Sho Kureha.
Woo Seungwook will helm the adaptation as the director and writer. Lee Hyun-jiung will oversee the character designs and is the chief animationd irection along with Heo Hyungjun. Kim Juyoung will compose the music. QWER, a Korean girl group, will perform the opening theme song “Show Down.”
Tomb Raider King will have a world premiere screening of the first two episodes on June 13 in Tokyo.
Based on the webnovel by SAN.G, Tomb Raider King launched on KakaoPage on November 1, 2016 and translated by Wuxiaworld on December 13, 2019 with 415 chapters. Three years later, a webcomic adaptation, written by Yuns and illustrated by 3B2S, was released on June 30, 2019 on KakaoPage and concluded with 397 chapters and 14 special chapters.
Clocking in at 9.5 million views, the webcomic was first released digitally on Tapas. The synopsis is as follows:
Mysterious tombs appeared all over the world one day, each containing a relic which grants its owner supernatural abilities. Jooheon Suh is a tomb explorer, excavator, and raider. Betrayed by his employer, he’s about to die at the hands of a powerful new relic when he suddenly finds himself 15 years in the past, before any relics or tombs made their debut. Driven by feelings of revenge, how will Jooheon use his knowledge of the future to become the Tomb Raider King?
Tomb Raider King airs in Japan on July 8; there is no word yet of an international streaming service. Ize Press publishes the manhwa in print.
Source: Kadokawa
