WEBTOON Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation are pushing deeper into animated webcomic adaptations, with four more WEBTOON titles now in development.
The new projects are The Wolf & Red Riding Hood by XUANN, Vampire Family by unfins, Sable Curse by Little Melon, and Snow and Briar by M. Nires. The announcement was made at Web Summit Vancouver 2026 by WEBTOON CFO David J. Lee and Warner Bros. Animation President Sam Register.
This is part of a bigger partnership between WEBTOON and Warner Bros. Animation, first revealed in November, which aims to co-produce animated versions of 10 WEBTOON titles for global distribution. Basically, more webcomic IP is being treated like proper animation pipeline material now — not just niche mobile reading content.
For Malaysian and SEA fans, this matters because WEBTOON has been huge here for years. A lot of us already read webtoons on mobile during commute, class breaks, or late-night scroll sessions. If these projects land on major streaming platforms later, it could mean easier access to stories that already have strong digital fandoms, especially for viewers who are into fantasy-romance, supernatural comedy, and character-driven YA stories.
The four newly announced titles cover a pretty broad spread of vibes:
The Wolf & Red Riding Hood follows Anna, a high school student whose life goes full supernatural chaos when she suddenly becomes hairy, unusually strong, hungry for meat, and eventually starts growing ears and a tail. The hook is simple but fun: she needs to figure out what is happening before the full moon turns her situation into a full werewolf problem.
Vampire Family goes more slice-of-life supernatural. Natalia is a vampire who just wants a normal school experience, and she tries to befriend her seatmate Evangelo. Of course, this kind of setup never stays normal for long, and Natalia soon realises Evangelo is not exactly ordinary either.
Sable Curse brings in darker fantasy stakes. Terron is doomed to die at 19 unless she can break a curse placed on her. Her possible way out appears when her family hides away from society at a magical estate, where the rich guests may be sitting on secrets connected to her survival.
Snow and Briar flips fairy-tale energy into something more playful and strange. Prince Snow, known as the fairest in the land, is pushed into marriage with the towering Princess Briar by his stepmother, who wants him out of the picture. The big question is whether Briar is simply obsessed with Snow like everyone else, or whether she has her own hidden agenda.
These four join the earlier WEBTOON-Warner Bros. Animation slate announced in 2025, which included Down to Earth, The Stellar Swordmaster, Elf & Warrior, and Hardcore Leveling Warrior.
The interesting thing here is how wide the strategy is. This is not just one action title or one romance title getting picked up. WEBTOON and Warner Bros. Animation are clearly testing multiple lanes: comedy, fantasy, romance, supernatural drama, and action-adventure. That makes sense because global animation audiences are no longer locked into one format. Anime fans, manhwa readers, webtoon readers, and streaming viewers overlap heavily now.
No release windows, streaming platforms, cast details, or trailers were announced in the source material, so for now these are still development-stage projects. But if the partnership delivers properly, this could be another sign that webtoon adaptations are becoming a serious mainstream animation pipeline — and SEA fans will definitely be watching to see which titles make the jump successfully.
Source: Anime News Network