Sangokushi

• Name — Sangokushi • Ja Kanji — 三国志

• Type — Manga • Author — Mitsuteru Yokoyama • Publisher — Ushio Shuppansha • Magazine — Comic Tom • First — 1971 • Last — 1987 • Volumes — 60

• Type — TV series • Title — Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Sangokushi • Director — Seiji Okuda • Producer — * Hiroyuki Yano • Kenji Yoshida • Writer — Jinzō Toriumi (Otori Kobo) • Music — Masatoshi Nishimura • Studio — Azeta Pictures • Network — TXN (TV Tokyo) • First — October 18, 1991 • Last — September 25, 1992 • Episodes — 47 Sangokushi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's retelling of the 14th century Chinese literary classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It was adapted into an anime television called Mitsuteru Yokoyama's 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.

• Liu Bei Xuande Daiki Nakamura • Guan Yu Yunchang Shinpachi Tsuji • Zhang Fei Yide Keiji Fujiwara • Zhao Yun Zilong Jūrōta Kosugi • Zhuge Liang Kongming Show Hayami • Hong Furong • An original character in the manga and based on Lady Gan, she is a daughter of Hong family, who Zhang Fei served. When Liu Bei escapes from the Yellow Turban, he saves her and they fall in love with each other. • Xianglan Satomi Kōrogi and Kikuko Inoue • An original character in the anime and based on Lady Mi, she is Liu Bei's apprentice who grew up to be his wife. She died of her injuries during the Battle of Changban.

• Cao Cao Mengde Yasunori Matsumoto • Xiahou Chun 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 Masahiro Anzai • Zhang Liao Tomomichi Nishimura • Xun Yu Masashi Ebara and Michitaka Kobayashi • Cheng Yu Bin Shimada and Jun Hazumi • Cao Hong

• Sun Quan Zhongmou Nobuo Tobita • Sun Jian Bin Shimada • Sun Ce Shigeru Nakahara • Zhou Yu Unshō Ishizuka • Lu Su Aruno Tahara • Zhuge Jin Masami Kikuchi and Kazuo Hayashi

• Emperor Xian Ai Orikasa and Hikaru Midorikawa • Dong Zhuo Ryūzaburō Ōtomo • Lü Bu Fengxian Kazuki Yao • Diaochan Ai Orikasa • Chen Gong Gongdai Hirotaka Suzuoki • Yuan Shao Ikuya Sawaki • Gongsun Zan Nobuaki Fukuda • Liu Biao Kazuhiko Kishino • Narrator Shinji Ogawa

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.

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.

• Opening • "River of Time" by Fence of Defense • "Don't Look Back" by Fence of Defense • Ending • "Sky" by Mimori Yusa • "Standing Alone" by Fence of Defense