Kingdom (manga)

Kingdom
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Xin Li
キングダム
(Kingudamu)
Genre
Manga
Written byYasuhisa Hara
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runJanuary 26, 2006 – present
Volumes73 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Jun Kamiya (S1)
  • Akira Iwanaga (S2)
  • Kenichi Imaizumi (S3–S5)
  • Kazuya Monma (S3 & S4)[a]
Produced by
  • Izumi Nakazawa (S1 & S2)
  • Mirai Miyamoto (S3)
  • Ryousuke Hagiwara (S3)
  • Ryōsuke Mori (S3)
  • Tomokazu Iizumi (S3–S5)
  • Mayumi Kurashima (S4 & S5)
  • Kazuhiro Iwami (S4 & S5)
  • Yousuke Tamura (S4 & S5)
  • Keita Takao (S5)
Written by
Music by
Studio
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkNHK BS Premium, NHK General TV
Original run June 4, 2012 – March 31, 2024
Episodes142 (List of episodes)
Live-action film
Kingdom
Directed byShinsuke Sato
Produced by
  • Kouji Hirano
  • Shirley Kao
  • Naoaki Kitajima
  • Shinzou Matsuhashi
  • Ryousuke Mori
Written by
  • Shinsuke Sato
  • Tsutomu Kuroiwa
  • Yasuhisa Hara
Music byYutaka Yamada
Studio
ReleasedApril 19, 2019 (2019-04-19)
Runtime134 minutes
Live-action film
Kingdom II: To Far Lands
Directed byShinsuke Sato
Produced by
  • Naoaki Kitajima
  • Shinzou Matsuhashi
  • Ryousuke Mori
  • Yuuya Satoyoshi
  • Gao Xiulan
Written by
  • Tsutomu Kuroiwa
  • Yasuhisa Hara
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioCredeus
ReleasedJuly 15, 2022 (2022-07-15)
Runtime134 minutes
Live-action film
Kingdom III: Flame of Destiny
Directed byShinsuke Sato
Produced by
  • Naoaki Kitajima
  • Shinzou Matsuhashi
  • Ryousuke Mori
  • Yuuya Satoyoshi
  • Gao Xiulan
Written by
  • Tsutomu Kuroiwa
  • Yasuhisa Hara
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioCredeus
ReleasedJuly 28, 2023 (2023-07-28)
Runtime129 minutes
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Kingdom (Japanese: キングダム, Hepburn: Kingudamu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhisa Hara. It has been serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since January 2006, with its chapters collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2024. Kingdom provides a fictionalized account of the Warring States period primarily through the experiences of the war orphan Xin and his comrades as he fights to become the greatest general under the heavens, and in doing so, unifying China for the first time in 500 years.

The series was adapted into a five-season anime television series by studio Pierrot. The first 38-episode season aired from June 2012 to February 2013; a second 39-episode season aired from June 2013 to March 2014; a third 26-episode season by Studio Signpost and Pierrot aired from April 2020 to October 2021; a fourth 26-episode season aired from April to October 2022; a fifth 13-episode season aired from January to March 2024. A live-action film was released in April 2019; a sequel film premiered in July 2022; a third film premiered in July 2023. The anime has been licensed for English-language release by Crunchyroll.

By November 2023, the Kingdom manga had over 100 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2013, the manga won the Grand Prize of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

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  6. ^ キングダム 第3シリーズ. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. Archived from the original on October 3, 2023. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
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