n the quiet village of Feltham, Eloise Surbiton leads a peaceful life far from the hubbub of the city, tending to geese and secretly fawning over dashing war hero Lt. Col. Ryan Wilgrave from afar. When her father mentions that a certain military man named Ryan will be moving to the nearby town of Cambourne, Eloise is thrilled — only to have her hopes dashed when she meets her new neighbor Ryan Thornton, a gruff soldier who is the opposite of the Ryan Wilgrave she knows. Little does she realize, there may be more to Ryan than meets the eye…

Your Ryan has story by Mongzzee and art by socheock, based on a work by BAEK SEOLHONG. English localization is done by WEBTOON. Published by WEBTOON (December 6, 2025). Rated YA.

Rebecca Silverman
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My not-so-guilty, not-so-secret love of Regency romances began when I was seven and my parents didn't let me bring enough books on vacation. All the hotel had was a stock of Regencies, and that was that. While the genre hurtled into the non-romance-reading public's consciousness with the TV adaptation of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series, the manga and manhwa space largely seemed to resist the allure of mock-Austen…until now. That's probably completely overstating the matter, but this is all to say that Your Ryan on WEBTOON makes my Regency-loving heart incredibly happy as it plays with a variety of genre mainstays and pairs them with luscious art.

Heroine Eloise is, like most young ladies, obsessed with Lt. Colonel Wilgrave, a hero of the late pseudo-Napoleonic Wars. The socially stifled young miss has even taken to painting fanart of him…naked fanart, because a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. She's thrilled when he's said to be taking the neighboring estate of Blissbury Park for some much needed rest and relaxation, only to have the worst possible first encounter involving her naked fanart and his face. And if that wasn't bad enough, he criticizes her work by saying that the penis she's drawn is much too small.

Of course, he also announces that he's someone else, but we canny readers can see past that ruse – he is, in fact, the real Lt. Colonel, but he loathes being hailed as a hero, so he had a subordinate sit for his official portrait. Ryan is struggling with survivor's guilt and PTSD, both of which are very well shown; the actions others called “heroic” are nothing of the sort in his mind, and he can't help but fixate on the many men he couldn't save. He's shocked when Eloise, one night at a dinner party, leaps to his defense with an in-depth analysis of a terrible battle based on newspaper accounts. Unlike most of society, Eloise has taken the time to understand what the circumstances were, and she unwittingly helps to alleviate some of his mental anguish. If them thinking each other odious wasn't enough of a sign that they're destined to be together, this certainly is.

Your Ryan combines the froth of a Heyer Regency with the poignancy of one of Mary Balogh's. It goes from Eloise planning to eat three entire pies to keep them from Ryan and painting her goose Lancelot biting his backside to Ryan struggling with very real mental health issues, and it manages to make both feel natural in the flow of the story. The art is beautiful (and not above the odd art history joke), and the whole thing is just a delight.

Plus it has a scene mirroring the famous “Mr. Darcy comes out of the lake” bit in the 1996 BBC Pride and Prejudice. What more could you possibly want?