Webtoon Entertainment, Kadokawa, and Redice Studio are joining forces to create Studio White, a production company focused on adapting light novels and manga into vertical webcomics. The project kicks off in May with Record of Lodoss War as its first work. The initiative aims to leverage Kadokawa's catalog and Redice's expertise, the team behind adapting titles like Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint into digital format.
How Redice Studio adapts infinite scroll to fantasy classics 🎨
Redice Studio will apply its production method to convert lengthy narratives into vertical episodes optimized for mobile devices. The format requires restructuring narrative rhythms, dividing panels into scrolling sequences, and redesigning backgrounds and characters for elongated screens. Kadokawa contributes the intellectual property rights, while Webtoon Entertainment will distribute the content on its platform. The process includes adjustments in color, typography, and reading times to maintain scrolling fluidity.
Lodoss War: from role-playing dice to the mobile screen 🐉
Record of Lodoss War began as role-playing sessions serialized in Japanese magazines, then became a light novel, an anime, and now a webcomic. A true classic that, like an RPG character, refuses to die. We'll see if the vertical format can capture the epic of knights and elves without looking like a PowerPoint with dragons. At least, fans can scroll infinitely while waiting for the next dice roll.