Webtoon subsidiary LINE Digital Frontier makes additional investment in No.9
WBTN•Webtoon Entertainment subsidiary LINE Digital Frontier made an additional investment in Tokyo-based comic studio No.9 to expand Japanese content globally. The investment deepens an alliance formed in December 2024, and No.9’s The Assassin Hero’s Astra Path will be the first Japanese series released worldwide simultaneously through Webtoon’s Global Drop program.
1. Investment and global release
LINE Digital Frontier made an additional investment in Tokyo-based comic studio No.9 to expand Japanese content globally. The investment deepens a capital and business alliance formed in December 2024 to develop No.9’s manga intellectual property for global distribution. No.9’s The Assassin Hero’s Astra Path will be the first Japanese series released simultaneously worldwide through Webtoon’s Global Drop program.
