Netflix to Adapt WEBTOON Entertainment’s Viral Hit

The adaptation of WEBTOON Entertainment’s Viral Hit webcomic will be a live-action series that will premiere on May 28 on Netflix.

The series, based on the original written by Taejun Pak and illustrated by Kim Junghyun, follows Kota Shimura, a bullied, struggling high school student who starts a streaming channel and begins to claw his way out of the pits of despair.

The Netflix version is directed by Hideki Takeuchi and written by Yuichi Tokunaga. Producers are Naoto Inaba and Shigeji Maeda.

The cast includes. Ouji Suzuka, Ai Mikami, Araki Sugou, Mieko Harada, Nana Asakawa and Takuro Osada.