webtoons - vertical scroll webcomics

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25232977

The Korean-based Webtoon Entertainment is the world's biggest comic book publisher. It was founded in 2005 by its CEO, Junkoo Kim, while working for South Korean technology giant Naver Corporation, who still owns over 60% of the company. Webtoon Entertainment allows comic book creators to publish their work in a vertical scrolling digital reading platform. A number of titles have seen adaptations for the screen courtesy of Netflix, Prime Video, and Crunchyroll. Popular titles include The Mafia Nanny, Love 4 A Walk, Star Catcher, Childhood Friend Complex, The Remarried Empress, Down To Earth and Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story.

But Webtoon Entertainment has just reported big losses in an investor call for Q4 and the full year, even as it achieved higher sales, with David Lee, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of Webtoon Entertainment, attributing the losses to increased IPO-related expenses, higher marketing costs, and goodwill impairment in the web novel sector, as well as and currency fluctuations driving the loss, as currencies in Asia dropped against a burgeoning dollar in 2024. Foreign currency adjustments made up a $62 million loss in Q4, and $72 million for the year, against only $18 million loss for the whole of 2023. And that South Korea's political instability had a temporary impact on user engagement. America, take note. Asset writedowns made up $70 million of the losses, but that wasn't far off what they went through in 2023 with $63 million written down.

And even with all those losses, Webtoon's sales were up 5.6% for Q4 and up 5.1 % for the full year to $1.35 billion. So, you know, there's a lot of money coming in, even if a lot of it is still going out.

In your opinion what's the webtoon/manhwa/comic with the prettiest/most interesting art style?

Interested to see people's opinions, how varied they are, or if there's a theme.

Official chapter is out!

This is the Inaugural post for the webtoons community, a community for all things vertical scroll webcomics.

After you’ve read the rules you’re free to join the community and post/comment to your hearts content!

Any future community announcements will likely be coming from this account ^^

Currently there is only one moderator, but if there becomes a need for more, you can look out for moderator applications to be opened in the future.

I’ve decided to host this community through ani.social as opposed to a different server because I felt it would fit best here. Due to anisocial hosting anime/manga/visualnovels/virtualyoutubers/character ai and other related communities, and the large cross-section of these communities with people who read vertical scroll webcomics. As well as the recent trend of adapting korean webcomics into anime.

There is another webtoons community on lemmy, but it only has a single inactive moderator and has not been touched at all for over a year.

Please let me know if this is not the appropriate server to host this community.