Summer 2026 Anime for Manhwa Fans: What to Read Now

Summer 2026 anime for manhwa fans came down to one show: Tomb Raider King, the season's Korean webtoon adaptation, which started on Crunchyroll on July 8 and wrapped on September 30. The season's over now, and that's good news for readers, because every big summer title has a finished manhwa you can binge instead of waiting a week.

Crop of the Tomb Raider King Korean volume 1 cover: Jooheon Suh in a dark jacket and white shirt holding up a card, a red-hilted sword at his hip

Here's the pairing for each one, starting with the manhwa that became the anime.

For a broader look at which manhwa are getting anime this year, see our full manhwa with anime adaptation 2026 guide.

Tomb Raider King: the summer 2026 anime for manhwa fans to start with

Aired: July 8 to September 30, 2026 on Crunchyroll, 12 episodes
Studio: STUDIO EEK
Source: SAN.G's original story, adapted into a webtoon by Yuns with art by 3B2S

Jooheon Suh is a tomb raider betrayed by his employer and killed by a relic, then thrown 15 years into the past, before the tombs appear. This time he plans to take every relic first. The anime's last episode slipped a week, from September 23 to September 30, and that finale is where the show stops.

Tomb Raider King Korean volume 1 cover: Jooheon Suh in a dark jacket and white shirt grinning and holding up a card, a red-hilted sword at his hip and a huge blue crow behind him Tomb Raider King volume 1 (Korean edition). Image: 3B2S / REDICE STUDIO.

The manhwa is finished, and the English edition on Tapas runs 412 episodes, so the anime is a small slice of it. Viewers split on whether that slice is any good. "It's if solo levelling actually has a plot. Still ridiculous and OP but going somewhere," wrote u/shadebug in an episode 7 thread; another viewer in the same discussion called it "a soulless copy" (u/Running-on-Eel). The comparison to Solo Leveling follows it everywhere; the manhwa is where Tomb Raider King gets room to be its own thing.

Tapas closes on March 31, 2027, and episodes you unlocked there go with it. Tomb Raider King is also on WEBTOON, Tappytoon and Manta, so if the anime sends you to the manhwa, start there. (What the shutdown means)

Where to start: chapter 1. The early chapters set up the betrayal and the first relics with more room than the show has.

Our full chapter-by-chapter breakdown and arc guide covers where each major story beat lands.
Tomb Raider King Reading Guide: All 411 Chapters

If you already read TRK and want something similar: our manhwa like Tomb Raider King roundup covers the regression-plus-relic-power formula across six series.

Liar Game: read Dice

Aired: April 7 to September 29, 2026, 26 episodes
Studio: Madhouse
Source: Liar Game manga by Shinobu Kaitani

Liar Game started in spring and ran straight through summer. Nao Kanzaki, a girl so honest people call her foolish, gets a box of a hundred million yen and an invitation to a game where you win by deceiving your opponent out of their money, and losing leaves you with the debt. She's tricked out of all of it almost immediately, and goes looking for a genius swindler to help.

The manga is finished in 19 volumes, and it's still the genre's reference point for psychological game stories.

Closest manhwa: Dice (WEBTOON, completed at 388 chapters). Dongtae sits at the bottom of his school in looks, grades and social life until a transfer student hands him a way out: dice that can change your fate with a single roll. Where Liar Game is about money, Dice is about status, but the hook is the same. A rigged game, players who learn to read it, and someone behind it all who wrote the rules.

Dice manhwa cover: a hooded boy lit in pink and purple holding a glowing blue die between his fingers, hands on his shoulders from behind, under the white DICE title Dice cover art. Image: Hyun-Seok Yun / WEBTOON.

Second pick: Tower of God. The game structure is different (contestants climb a tower floor by floor through tests), but the alliances, betrayals and players who win with their heads instead of raw power match Liar Game's mood.

Where to start: Dice from chapter 1 on WEBTOON. Tower of God from chapter 1 on WEBTOON.

For six picks ranked by how closely they match the Liar Game mechanic, see Manhwa Like Liar Game: 6 Picks for Game Thriller Fans.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, The Calamity: read Noblesse

Premiered: July 25, 2026
Studio: Pierrot Films
Arc: The Calamity, the final part of the Thousand-Year Blood War

The Thousand-Year Blood War anime has been coming in parts since 2022, and The Calamity is the last one: the war between the Soul Reapers and the Quincies reaches its end. If you're watching for the spiritual combat, the faction politics and the escalating power reveals, these manhwa carry the same energy.

Closest manhwa: Noblesse (completed, 544 chapters). Rai wakes from an 820-year sleep and starts a new life as a student at a high school founded by his loyal servant, Frankenstein, until a secret organization called the Union starts sending attackers. The faction structure, the backstory that surfaces mid-series and the quiet, overpowered lead sit close to Bleach's best stretches. It's finished, so you can read the whole thing.

Second pick: The Breaker (72 chapters, completed) and its sequel The Breaker: New Waves (203 chapters, completed). A bullied high school student finds out his new teacher is one of the strongest fighters in a hidden martial world, and that school-to-secret-world pipeline maps onto Bleach's early arcs.

Check our full manhwa like Bleach guide for six more picks with tonal notes on which appeals to each type of Bleach fan.

Re:Zero Season 4: read SSS-Class Revival Hunter

Aired: April 8 to June 17, 2026 (the Loss Arc), then the Recapture Arc from August 12 to September 30 on Crunchyroll
Studio: White Fox
Source: Re:Zero light novel by Tappei Nagatsuki

Re:Zero runs on a loop: Subaru dies, resets to a checkpoint, and tries to find the path where everyone lives. The weight comes from him carrying the memory of every death that no one else remembers.

Closest manhwa: SSS-Class Revival Hunter (Tapas, 154 episodes, on hiatus). Confucius Kim (Kim Gong-ja in the Korean) gets a legendary skill that copies other people's abilities, but only when they kill him. The first hunter to do it, the Flame Emperor, hands him the one skill that matters: going back in time every time he dies. It's death-as-progress, like Re:Zero, with more swagger and less grief.

SSS-Class Revival Hunter Korean volume 1 cover: a brown-haired man in a black coat wrapped in silver chains, gripping a sword, red brushstrokes and a clock face behind him SSS-Class Revival Hunter volume 1 (Korean edition). Image: Bill K / FANSIA.

Tapas put the series on hiatus after Season 4 ahead of Season 5. It's the only English digital home for it, and Tapas closes on March 31, 2027; Yen Press prints the volumes.

Second pick: Solo Leveling if you prefer the power climb without the emotional toll.

Summer 2026 anime for manhwa fans: what to read first

If you're working through the summer 2026 anime for manhwa fans in one go, this is the order we'd read the source material in.

Tomb Raider King if you only pick one. It's the one the season was about, and it's finished.
Dice if Liar Game was your favorite of the season.
Noblesse while Bleach's last part is still fresh.
SSS-Class Revival Hunter if Re:Zero's loops are what you're after; read it on Tapas or in Yen Press print.

Witch Hat Atelier, the other big magic show of the year, ran in spring (April to June) rather than summer; if it's the one you loved, Manhwa Like Witch Hat Atelier has the reading companions. A Returner's Magic Should Be Special Season 2 started on October 7, so it's a fall show; our Season 2 guide has the schedule.

How we checked this: on October 20, 2026 we re-checked the air dates and studios on AniList, Crunchyroll and Wikipedia, the Tomb Raider King finale delay in ComicBook.com's report, episode counts and hiatus notices on Tapas, chapter counts on AniList, and each trailer on YouTube. The pairings are our recommendations. Last reviewed: October 20, 2026.

For everything coming to anime this year (not just Summer), see the full 2026 manhwa anime adaptation guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which manhwa got an anime in Summer 2026?

Tomb Raider King was the big one. Its anime premiered on Crunchyroll on July 8 and ended on September 30 after 12 episodes. Liar Game, Bleach and Re:Zero, the other big titles of the season, all come from Japanese manga or light novels.

What manhwa should I read if I like Liar Game?

Dice, a finished WEBTOON series where a single roll of a dice can rewrite a student's life. Tower of God is the second pick for its alliances, betrayals and contestants who win with their heads.

Do I need to read the Tomb Raider King manhwa before watching the anime?

No. The anime introduces the setup on its own. The manhwa is the reason to keep going, because the 12 episodes cover only the start of a story that runs 412 episodes on Tapas.

What manhwa should I read if I love Bleach?

Noblesse for the faction politics and the quiet, overpowered lead. The Breaker and The Breaker: New Waves if it's the hidden martial world and the power progression you like. All three are finished.

Where can I read Tomb Raider King legally in English?

WEBTOON, Tappytoon, Manta and Tapas all carry it, and Yen Press prints it. Tapas closes on March 31, 2027, so if you're starting now, start somewhere else.