KINGDOM｜Anime

KINGDOM is an animated television series based on the Japanese manga KINGDOM by Yasuhisa Hara, which began airing in 2012. It won the Best Original Programme Award (animation category) at the 3rd Satellite Broadcasting Association Original Programme Awards.
The manga has been serialised since issue 9, 2006. The total number of copies sold exceeded 100 million with the release of volume 70 in 2023. The work won the 17th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award Manga Grand Prize.

Synopsis

China, BC. The era is the Spring and Autumn Warring States period.
In the western country of Shin, two boys, Shin and Hyo, who live as war orphans, dream of training themselves day by day and one day becoming great generals in the world through their military exploits in battle.

A turning point comes for them. Hyo catches the eye of a minister serving at the royal court and is summoned to the royal court.

However, Hyo is soon caught up in a power struggle at the royal court and is badly injured, and returns to his homeland, barely alive. In the village he visits with the map Drifting gave him, Shin meets a boy named Masa, who is exactly the same as Hyo. He was the future Shi Huangdi.

KINGDOM | Recommendations

“KINGDOM” is the most uplifting film I have ever seen. The sense of presence is outstanding.
Your heart is soaring with the protagonist that you are irresistibly drawn to it.
Dreams and beliefs are the axis of the story, but they are conveyed beautifully through the content alone, rather than being conveyed over and over again in a definitive line-like manner.

The characters are also wonderfully appealing, and although they all have their own unique personalities, each of them, their feelings and thoughts in various scenes allow you to immerse yourself in the world as if it were your own.
No matter how many times you watch the film, you are firmly taken with the characters as well as the content. The side stories are also really interesting and the development intertwined with the main storyline is excellent.
No other work has ever been so epic, adrenaline-pumping and moving.
You can understand the cause of the battle scenes and the foreshadowing human drama really draws you in. KINGDOM” is one of the greatest works of Japanese animation. If you haven’t seen it yet, please do so. It is one of the most recommended works.