BODY: If you're braving the summer heat at Tokyo Big Sight this weekend, there's a new name worth adding to your Comic Market 108 route. Webzen has confirmed that its free-to-play bishoujo RPG TERBIS will set up shop at the sprawling doujin event running August 15–16.
The pitch centers on a promise the marketing has leaned into hard: animation, and lots of it. TERBIS is being positioned as a title that pours real resources into fully animated character work rather than the static portraits common to the genre. For a free-to-play gacha-style RPG, that's the kind of production value used to separate a game from the pack in a crowded market.
At the booth itself, the draw is loot. Webzen is handing out an assortment of limited-edition goods to visitors — the classic Comiket playbook of turning foot traffic into pre-launch buzz and social-media photos. Exact giveaway details and any distribution limits typically get sorted on the show floor, so early arrivals usually fare best.
The move also fits Webzen's broader strategy. The Korean publisher, long associated with MMOs like MU Online, has been courting Japan's anime-game audience directly, and there's no more concentrated gathering of that demographic than Comiket, which draws hundreds of thousands over its run.
The insider take
Booking a Comiket 108 booth is a deliberate signal from a Tokyo-market perspective. Japanese players are famously discerning about anime aesthetics and voice work, and a Korean-published title showing up in person — swag in hand — reads as a bid for credibility with the exact crowd that decides whether a free-to-play RPG lives or dies here. Expect the "animation gattsuri" (all-in on animation) messaging to keep echoing right up to launch; it's the hook Webzen is betting will convert curious festival-goers into day-one players.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).