Digital comics platform Webtoon and original stories platform Wattpad are teaming up to bring out a new series of webcomics and web novels featuring some of the world’s hottest K-pop artists.…
The new slate of content is part of Webtoon’s previously announced Super Casting project, a new group of partnerships with global entertainment companies to create webcomics or web novels for each platform.
Super Casting allows major entertainment brands to work with Webtoon and attempt to maximize the IP value chain across platforms and formats. In September, Webtoon released a new original series,with DC, its first collaboration partner, surpassing a claimed 500,000 subscribers within a week of its launch.with BTS, follows seven young men bound by fate. After growing up together through a series of trials and tribulations, they must become a unified group of seven to unlock their destiny.
“Webcomics and web novels are some of the most exciting categories in global entertainment, with a growing creator economy of superstar creators, massive fandoms around the world, and diverse IP fueling a new era of adaptations in TV and film,” said JunKoo Kim, founder and global CEO of Webtoon Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to work with HYBE to bring these incredible stories to fans all over the world in formats they know and love on Webtoon and Wattpad.
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