Sangokushi (manga)

Sangokushi
Cover of the tankōbon volume 60, featuring Jiang Wei
三国志
Manga
Written byMitsuteru Yokoyama
Published byUshio Shuppansha
MagazineComic Tom
DemographicShōnen
Original run19711987
Volumes60
Anime television series
Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi
Directed bySeiji Okuda
Produced byHiroyuki Yano
Kenji Yoshida
Mutsuo Shimizu
Written byAkihiro Arajima
Jinzō Toriumi
Koichi Mizuide
Saburo Ebinuma
StudioDai Nippon Printing
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run October 18, 1991 September 25, 1992
Episodes47

Sangokushi (三国志) 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 Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (横山光輝 三国志).

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.