Yet another Japanese anime adaptation of Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, written by Luo Guanzhong (羅貫中) in the 14th century. This time, it is the story of one of the warlords, Cao Cao 曹操, a brilliant and ruthless leader. The anime will be based on the award winning manga, Souten Kouro 蒼天航路 created by Li Hagin (李學仁) and King Gonta (王欣太).
And like… wowo Cute Rikuson (Lu Xun from Koutetsu Sangokushi) Mamochan 宮野真守 is voicing Sou Sou (Cao Cao) this time! Seki Tomokazu (関 智一) will voice his main rival from the three kingdoms, Ryubii (Liu Bei 劉備) Awesome! :D
The anime will premiere on 7 April 2009. That’s an additional period/historical anime to look forward to this April along with Sengoku Basara ^_^
Official site: http://www.ntv.co.jp/souten/
The soundtrack seems good and I’ll add more comments after I’ve watched it. Looks very promising from the staff line-up tho’.
Staff List (from ANN)
Executive Director: Ashida Toyou (Fist of the North Star, Ultimate Teacher, Vampire Hunter D video)
Director: Tominaga Tsuneo (They Were 11, Initial D: Fourth Stage, Genma Wars)
Character Designers: Umehara Takahiro (Claymore), Kano Akira (Initial D: Fourth Stage), Yamauchi Cindy H., Yoshida Daisuke (Super Kuma-san), Hayashi Yuichiro
Costume Research/Secondary Characters: Matsushita Akiko
Animation Production: Madhouse
Trailer:
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hohoho since history is my fave subject i’ll be following this anime closely.
it’s always interesting for me to see interpretation of San Guo Yan Yi characters.
Do you watch the recent movie Red Cliff?
Ah, glad you inform me that Sou Sou is Cao Cao..otherwise i’ll be wandering who the heck is he. XD
When I first watched Koutetsu Sangokushi, it also took me a while to figure out who’s who since the names were pronounced in Japanese :P Now I’m pretty ok with ‘em lol~ Have you played the US version of Dynasty Warriors? The English was worse. My bro and I nearly died from laughter when we heard the voice actor say, “I am Cow Pee…” (Cao Pi is Cao Cao’s eldest son) OMG. He pronounced Cao as “Cow”! *dead*
Anyway, I added a trailer. It looks pretty good! I didn’t watch Red Cliff… was kinda busy so I missed it. How about you? Takeshi Kaneshiro makes a rather handsome Zhuge Liang (Kong Ming / Koumei) keke.
ROFL! Cow Pee….hilarious! and stupid indeed.
Interesting to see how the names changed into japanese pronunciation.
I missed it too. will probably buy the DVD for the sake of Takeshi and Tony Leung.
DEFINITELY watching this one. And it has absolutely nothing to do with what I was forced to learn in school. Chinese classics. Urgh… the art looks great isn’t it! =D
@akiyama: phew~ had a long and busy day :P I think the voice actor probably felt strange reading his script too. I wonder why they don’t bother doing a bit of research on the pronunciations before they dubbed the game =_=;;;
The movie reviews said the show as entertaining but die-hard fans of the classic would flip over the creative liberties taken over plot treatment.
@imbeleth: Yep it does! Definitely something to look forward to! You study Chinese literature in school? XD