Sangokushi (manga)

Sangokushi
三国志
Genre Historical fiction
Manga
Written by Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Published by Ushio Shuppansha
Magazine Comic Tom
Original run 1971 – 1986
Volumes 60
Anime television series
Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi
Directed by Kenji Yoshida
Studio Dai Nippon Printing, TV Tokyo
Network TV Tokyo
Original run October 18, 1991 – September 25, 1992
Episodes 47

Sangokushi (三国志) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's retelling of the Chinese literary classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It was adapted into a television anime called Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (横山光輝 三国志).

Characters

Shu Han

An original character in the manga. She was a daughter of Hong family, who Zhang Fei served. When Liu Bei escaped from the Yellow Turban, he saved her. Meeting Liu Bei and falling in love with him from his younger day, that makes her based on Lady Gan.
An original character in the anime, she was Liu Bei's apprentice who grew up to be his wife. She died of her injuries during the Battle of Changban, this makes her based on Lady Mi.

Cao Wei

Although his name should be Xiahou Dun (夏侯惇), both the anime and the manga named him Xiahou Chun (夏侯淳).

Cao hong

Eastern Wu

Others

Media

Manga

The manga was first serialized in the Kibō no Tomo magazine, which changed its name to Comic World in 1978, and then to Comic Tom in 1980.

Although Eiji Yoshikawa only wrote the story up to Zhuge Liang's death in the Battle of Wuzhang Plains, the manga continued until the fall of Shu Han.

With this manga, Mitsuteru Yokoyama won the 1991 Japanese Cartoonist Association Award for Excellence.[1]

Anime

The anime was largely faithful to the manga, though it centered mainly on the camps of Liu Bei and Cao Cao, often minimizing the scenes of other camps. The anime stopped after the Battle of Red Cliffs, which is about the midway through the manga series.

Theme songs

References

  1. ↑ "List of recipients of the Japanese Cartoonist Association Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
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