Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi

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Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi
横山光輝 三国志
Genre Historical fiction
Manga: Sangokushi
Author Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Publisher Ushio Shuppansha
Magazine Comic Tom
Original run 19711986
Volumes 60
TV anime
Director Kenji Yoshida
Studio Dai Nippon Printing, TV Tokyo
Network TV Tokyo
Original run October 18, 1991September 25, 1992
Episodes 47

Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (横山光輝 三国志?) is a Japanese anime series based on the Sangokushi manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, itself based on Eiji Yoshikawa's retelling of the Chinese literary classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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[edit] Characters

[edit] Shu Han

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.

[edit] 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).

[edit] Eastern Wu

[edit] Others

[edit] Media

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Theme songs

  • Opening
    • "River of Time" (時の河 Toki no Kawa?) by Fence of Defense
    • "Don't Look Back" by Fence of Defense
  • Ending
    • "Sky" ( Sora?) by Mimori Yusa
    • "Standing Alone" by Fence of Defense

[edit] References

  1. ^ List of recipients of the Japanese Cartoonist Association Awards (Japanese). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.

[edit] External links