Description
[Story]
Near the end of the second century A.D., the Gori Kingdom of the Mahan Alliance is destroyed by the burgeoning Baekje... The royal bodyguard of Gori, Naru, is betrayed that day by his mentor, Captain Uro, and captured by the enemy. After much hardship he is sold off to the western regions and becomes a gladiator in the Roman Empire. He must find Princess Sodan, the person he’s never been separated from for ten years and the one more precious to him than his own life... A new gladiator is registered in the Plabius Colosseum. His name is Naru, no, Narcissus. He is now a slave gladiator, a captive from a small eastern nation. The trainer Abidos is disappointed by Narcissus’s small frame and doesn’t even give him a test, sending him off to learn to fight beasts. But when he kills a huge crocodile from Northern Africa with a single blow, he realizes he’s misjudged the man. “Freedom... That’s what he needed. There’s only one way to attain freedom in the colosseum.” Afterwards, Naru becomes a gladiator who fights men, not beasts, and piles up many victories. Naru is dubbed the “Pluto of the East” for his rare black hair and undefeated swordsmanship. Rumors about him reach the ears of the crazy emperor Comodus...
Company Information
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Category
TV Show,
Cartoon,
Animation,
CT
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Main Products
Webtoon
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Main Markets
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
JAPAN
FRANCE
GERMANY
UNITED STATES
THAILAND
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Employees Total
90
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Established
2009
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Website
Visit Website
Toyou's Dream,
The Oldest, Biggest, and the Most Experienced,
And thus the Best Webtoon Production Company
Founded in 2009, Toyou's Dream is a webtoon company that has produced around 530 titles so far. Currently offering 78 works across 20 platforms, we are Korea's number-one webtoon producer and publisher.
Our top works include the ever-growing, ongoing trilogy of <Tong>, <Dokgo>, and <Blood Rain> all based on an interconnected universe, along with <Shark>, <Cleaner K>, and <Polar Night>. We not only offer content services across Korean and global platforms, but are also actively co-creating and exporting webtoons, as well as video content based on webtoon IPs, with our partners in Japan, China, North America, and Europe.
In 2021, we established Studio Toyou, a movie production house, to rise further as a webtoon IP-based, comprehensive content provider. <Tong Memories>, <Dokgo Rewind>, <Item>, and <Shark> prove our experience in adapting webtoon IPs into video format. We are a producer of varied content, freely crossing boundaries of media types.
Category & Business Type
TV Show
Category : Copyright-holding Distributor, Producer, Sales Agent, Licensing Agent, TV Broadcaster, Post-Production, Production/Content Creation, Media Agency/Brand
Business Type : Program Copyright Deals, Co-Production/Collaboration, Investment Attraction
Cartoon
Category : Cartoon Publisher, General Publisher (Comics Division), Internet/Mobile Cartoon Content Production & Provision (CP), Other
Business Type : Business of Original Work (Secondary Content), Overseas Distribution (Online), Overseas Distribution (Offline/Publication), Co-Production/Collaboration, Investment Attraction
Animation
Category : Copyright-holding Distributor, Producer, Sales Agent, Licensing Agent, TV Broadcaster, Post-Production
Business Type : Program Copyright Deals, Co-Production/Collaboration, Investment Attraction, Other, Licensing
Main Business
1. Produce webtoons and distribute them on platforms
2. Create movies, drama series, and mobile video content based on webtoons
3. Create animation films based on webtoons
4. Publish printed books based on webtoons in Korea and globally
5. Operate webtoon licensing/merchandising/character business
6. Create promotional webtoons
History
2023
[Global] Published and offered global services for 58 webtoons (the United States, three European countries, three Southeast Asian countries, China, Taiwan). Published printed books of the webtoon series <Who’s Your Daddy>(Thai)
2023
[Korea] Produced and published <Polar Night: Pontus> and 38 other webtoon series. Signed three video adaptation agreements, including for the webtoon series <Seoul Exorcism Department>
2022
[Global] Published printed books of the webtoon series <Villain to Kill> and <From a Knight to a Lady> (French, German). Signed four video adaptation agreements, including for the webtoon series <Colosseum>
2022
[Korea] Produced and published <Ranker> and 34 other webtoon series. Signed four video adaptation agreements, including for the webtoon series <Colosseum>
2021
[Global] Video adaptation of <Dokgo> under discussion (with Toho Studios of Japan)
2021
[Korea] Produced and published <Shark> and 30 other webtoon series. Signed the co-production agreement on the movie <Shark: The Beginning> and three other video adaptation deals