Tomb Raider King will hit television screens in Japan this year.
REDICE Studio has dropped the first PV trailer for their animated adaptation of Tomb Raider King. The trailer opens with Suh Jooheon facing off against a powerful dragon–which is only the beginning of his battles. The aeni will be animated and produced by Korean animation studio STUDIO EEK with Woo Seungwook writing and directing. Lee Hyun-jung will oversee the character designs and is the chief animation director along with Heo Hyungjun. Composing the music will be Kim Juyoung. QWER performs the opening theme song “Show Down.”
Information on the voice cast for the Korean version could not be found. The aeni will be dubbed in Japanese when it airs in Japan and features Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryoga Goriki (the localized name for Suh Jooheon), Saori Hayami as Irene Holton, and Junichi Suwabe as Taisei Oogawara (the localized name for Kwon Taejoon).
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 9.1 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 will air in Japan in July. Ize Press publishes the manhwa in print.
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