Sangokushi (manga)
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Manga | |
Written by | Mitsuteru Yokoyama |
Published by | Ushio Shuppansha |
Magazine | Comic Tom |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | 1971 – 1987 |
Volumes | 60 |
Anime television series | |
Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi | |
Directed by | Seiji Okuda |
Produced by | Hiroyuki Yano Kenji Yoshida Mutsuo Shimizu |
Written by | Akihiro Arajima Jinzō Toriumi Koichi Mizuide Saburo Ebinuma |
Studio | Dai Nippon Printing |
Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
Original run | October 18, 1991 – September 25, 1992 |
Episodes | 47 |
Sangokushi (
As of May 2020, the manga series had sold over 80 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.
Characters
[edit]Shu Han
[edit]- Liu Bei Xuande (
劉 備玄徳 , Ryūbi Gentoku) Voiced by: Daiki Nakamura - Guan Yu Yunchang (
関 羽 雲 長 , Kanu Unchō) Voiced by: Shinpachi Tsuji - Zhang Fei Yide (
張 飛 翼 徳 , Chōhi Yokutoku) Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara - Zhao Yun Zilong (
趙 雲 子 龍 , Chōun Shiryū) Voiced by: Jūrōta Kosugi - Zhuge Liang Kongming (
諸 葛 亮 孔明 , Shokatsuryō Kōmei) Voiced by: Show Hayami - Hong Furong (
鴻 芙蓉 , Kōfuyō)
- 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.
- Xianglan (
香蘭 , Kōran) Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi and Kikuko Inoue
- 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
[edit]- Cao Cao Mengde (
曹操 孟 徳 , Sōsō Mōtoku) Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto - Xiahou Chun (
夏 侯 淳 , Kakōjun) Voiced by: Kōsuke Meguro
- Although his name should be Xiahou Dun (
夏 侯 惇 ), both the anime and the manga named him Xiahou Chun (夏 侯 淳 ).
- Dian Wei (
典 韋, Ten'i) Voiced by: Masahiro Anzai - Zhang Liao (
張 遼 , Chōryō) Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura - Xun Yu (荀彧, Jun'iku) Voiced by: Masashi Ebara and Michitaka Kobayashi
- Cheng Yu (
程 昱, Teiiku) Voiced by: Bin Shimada and Jun Hazumi - Cao Hong (曹洪, Sōkō)
Sun Wu
[edit]- Sun Quan Zhongmou (
孫 権 仲 謀 , Sonken Chūbō) Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita - Sun Jian (
孫 堅 , Sonken) Voiced by: Bin Shimada - Sun Ce (
孫 策 , Sonsaku) Voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara - Zhou Yu (
周 瑜, Shūyu) Voiced by: Unshou Ishizuka - Lu Su (魯粛, Roshuku) Voiced by: Aruno Tahara
- Zhuge Jin (
諸 葛 瑾, Shokatsukin) Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi and Kazuo Hayashi
Others
[edit]- Emperor Xian (
献 帝 , Kentei) Voiced by: Ai Orikasa and Hikaru Midorikawa - Dong Zhuo (
董 卓 , Tōtaku) Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo - Lü Bu Fengxian (
呂 布 奉 先 , Ryofu Hōsen) Voiced by: Kazuki Yao - Diaochan (
貂 蝉 , Chōsen) Voiced by: Ai Orikasa - Chen Gong Gongdai (
陳 宮 公 台 , Chinkyū Kōdai) Voiced by: Hirotaka Suzuoki - Yuan Shao (袁紹, Enshō) Voiced by: Ikuya Sawaki
- Gongsun Zan (
公孫 瓚, Kōsonsan) Voiced by: Nobuaki Fukuda - Liu Biao (
劉 表 , Ryūhyō) Voiced by: Kazuhiko Kishino - Narrator Voiced by: Shinji Ogawa
Media
[edit]Manga
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- Opening
- "River of Time" (
時 の河 , Toki no Kawa) by Fence of Defense - "Don't Look Back" by Fence of Defense
- "River of Time" (
- Ending
- "Sky" (
空 , Sora) by Mimori Yusa - "Standing Alone" by Fence of Defense
- "Sky" (
Reception
[edit]By May 2020, the manga series had sold over 80 million copies in circulation.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "List of recipients of the Japanese Cartoonist Association Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
- ^ スマホアプリ『
三国志 ロワイヤル』が横山 光輝 「三国志 」と再 びコラボ!. ASCII Games (in Japanese). May 26, 2020. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Sangokushi (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Sangokushi (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia