BL Webtoon King’s Maker Writer and Illustrator Make First U.S. Appearance at AnimeNYC 2025 – All the News and Reviews from Anime NYC 2025

Two creators of the popular BL Webtoon, King’s Manufacturerarrive at Animenyc to reach the room full of exciting fans. Illustrator Jiyoung Kang and writer Haga said they were happy to meet everyone and promised to bring the attendees back to South Korea as souvenirs. After announcing that the group would be a phoneless environment, the duo fell into their origins and how they began their journey into the footsteps of the internet.

When it comes to their partnership, Kang has an interesting story to share. “This is the day when I returned to Korea from Japan, and Haga called me at the airport: ‘Can you get to a certain cafe in Seoul in an hour?’ I thought she might be a human organ dealer,’ Kang said with a smile. “But she suggested working together, and the result was King’s Manufacturer. ”The panelists showed Wolfgang and Soshik first met. King’s Manufacturer.

The relaxed conversation and spontaneous jokes between Haga and Kang show the distance between their work and their friendship and professional partnerships. “I’m a little naive person, I like bright colors,” Haga said. “But, I’ve been suffering,” Kang inserted. “It’s an advantage for the collaboration we work on, because I love cool spectrum colors and she’s good at warm spectrum colors,” Haga said with a laugh. Their complementary flavors of colors and personalities make them choose King’s Manufacturer world.

“Haga has a high standard of character look, so whenever I design them, I always focus on her point of view.” Haga responded, “I’m not sure if this is the best decision to come here with her.”

Keep going on with the characters, both authors have some interesting facts to share. Haga asks readers to pay attention to personality gaps in Soohyuk. Despite his smart and fast figure, his hands are not very good because in one scene his father tied his shoes for him. “It’s a little ugly when he does something handmade.” Kang focuses on the body frame of the character. Wolfgang and Soohyuk have different shapes, even different finger shapes. “But when they were younger, they weren’t that different. We’re trying to reflect the growing difference in age aging between the two. You’ll also see how I meet Haga’s expectations.”

“Before you mentioned that I like torture characters, so if I torture you, the reader will be happy,” Haga said.

Surprisingly, they don’t split creative responsibilities in half when they work on both stories and illustrations. They know each other’s strong point of view and find Kang particularly good at action sequences, while Haga brings emotional and sensitive portrayals to the character’s face. They are so productive that their meeting time will be reduced. It lasted for less than 15 minutes at our recent working meeting. However, sometimes they disagree with each other because they agree that they never sell products they are not satisfied with. “We can’t agree on a part, who will go where, who will leave,” Haga explained. “Later, we agreed that the two characters would have similar disputes and therefore would fight each other.” They used real-life experiences and conflicts as plot points.

Go back to specific questions King’s Manufacturerdespite the contrast between the background: revenge, love and dreams, three elements bring together Wolfgang and Suriku. Therefore, the title of the sequel is King Manufacturer: Triple Crown. The two will have different rankings in their motivations, in which Soohyuk ranks dreams as his top priority, and Wolfgang will prioritize love. “I imagine the moment when Soohyuk announced his No. 1 spot, Wolfgang would be so charming that he would immediately declare love as his No. 1 spot,” Hega said.

Close the panel, two authors revealed King’s Manufacturer On their calendar. The whole room was breathing and waiting for Kang and Haga to share more, but unfortunately, there was no release date. Haga shouted, “We don’t know when it will be published or the thickness of the volume.

As a separate gift, the group host showed the slideshow, announcing the first volume King Manufacturer: Triple Crown It will be released in spring 2027. English publications will be mature and uncensored versions. Before leaving, Kang wanted the crowd to know how much work she put into a particular scene: “I focused on that part so much that it took me three weeks!”