Overgeared

Overgeared (Korean: 템빨; RR: Temppal) is a South Korean web novel series written by Saenal. It was serialized on Kakao's web novel platform KakaoPage from November 2014 to April 2024. A manhwa adaptation, which was released as a webtoon, adapted by Monohumbug, and illustrated by Team Argo, began serialization on KakaoPage in April 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C.Staff is set to premiere in October 2026.

Youngwoo Shin works odd jobs to make money, while spending several hours a day playing the virtual reality game Satisfy under the moniker "Grid". He is not very skilled at the game and levels up slower than other players. However, one day Youngwoo is granted an S-rank quest, which he completes and earns a scroll that allows his character to advance to legendary class as a reward. Using this new class, Youngwoo is able to reverse his fortunes.

Shin Youngwoo/Grid

Voiced by: Tatsumaru Tachibana²

Yura

Voiced by: Asami Seto²

Saenal was a fan of reading books and playing video games as a child, and so they desired to create a book with a setting similar to a video game. Saenal also stated that the basic premise was inspired by the novel Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, while the details were inspired by the video game Lineage.³ Saenal intentionally created the protagonist as lacking skills from the beginning so that they could show the character's growth as the story progresses. Saenal believed that this approach would allow the reader to empathize with the character.³

Written by Saenal, the web novel began serialization on Kakao's platform KakaoPage on November 14, 2014. Its serialization finished on April 26, 2024.⁴ Maru Publishing published the novel in print in 57 volumes.⁵ Wuxiaworld published the novel in English digitally.⁶

A manhwa adaptation, which was released as a webtoon, adapted by Monohumbug, and illustrated by Team Argo, began serialization on KakaoPage on April 1, 2020.³ It is published in English digitally by Tapas. At Sakura-Con 2023, Yen Press' Ize Press imprint announced that they would be publishing the webtoon in print.⁷

An anime television series adaptation was announced on June 3, 2026. It will be produced by Egg Firm, animated by J.C.Staff and directed by Ayako Kōno, with Kenta Ihara handling series composition, Ryousuke Tanigawa designing the characters, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa composing the music. The series is set to premiere in October 2026.² Crunchyroll will stream the series.⁸

A video game adaptation, developed by Gray Games and published by Nexon, is in development under the codename "Project T".⁹

In South Korea, the series has been viewed 1.3 billion times and generated ₩10 billion in revenue.¹⁰¹¹