One bout on the road
Swipe to strike · hold to guard · strike while he winds up to cut him off
勝
Shin takes the bout.
第一将
蒙武
Mou Bu
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天下
城戸村
Jouto, a village of Qin
Two slave boys, Shin and Hyou, fight on the road every day with wooden swords. Between them, one dream: to become the greatest generals under heaven.
Take up a wooden sword
If you take flight to the heights of the Heavens, then I’ll be there with you.
飛
飛信隊
Bayou · 244 BC
The great general Ou Ki gave Shin’s hundred men their name: the Hi Shin Unit. The flying Shin.
The view of a general
Close your eyes, Ou Ki tells him. Breathe. Now look: this is what a general sees.
Hold anywhere to close your eyes.
百
飛信隊
100
men under the 飛 banner Chapter 113
The Hi Shin Unit, as it grew
A hundred men at Bayou. Sixty thousand by chapter 801.
In the armies of the Warring States the drum sent men forward and the gong called them back.
Tap to beat the drum.
The wedge
Cavalry in a point, the banner behind it. You lead it.
Drag across the field to aim, let go to charge.
六
六大将軍
The Six Great Generals
King Shō’s six were free to make war in his name. In 234 BC Ei Sei brought the six back, and left the sixth seat empty.
Click a banner to meet its general.
一
中華統一
Ei Sei’s dream
Not a bigger Qin. One country, every border gone, every person under one law.
“If not man… then what?”
“Law.”
230BC
- 韓Han230
- 趙Zhao228
- 魏Wei225
- 楚Chu224 · 223
- 燕Yan222
- 斉Qi221
Map traced from Philg88, “The Warring States of China c. 260 BCE”, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
KINGDOM
2
boys on the road · Chapter 1
列伝
The pages, the record, the maker.
Inside the letters: the Hi Shin Unit at the charge. © Yasuhisa Hara / Shueisha, via Kingdom Wiki
つづく
The Hi Shin Unit, as it grew
Read right to left, as the page is drawn.
Kingdom © Yasuhisa Hara / Shueisha. Panels via Kingdom Wiki.
史記 卷七十三 王翦列傳秦將李信者，年少壯勇，嘗以兵數千逐燕太子丹至於衍水中，卒破得丹，始皇以為賢勇。始皇問李信：「吾欲攻取荊，於將軍度用幾何人而足？」李信曰：「不過用二十萬人。」始皇問王翦，王翦曰：「非六十萬人不可。」始皇曰：「王將軍老矣，何怯也！李將軍果勢壯勇，其言是也。」荊人因隨之，三日三夜不頓舍，大破李信軍，入兩壁，殺七都尉，秦軍走。卷一百九 李將軍列傳李將軍廣者，隴西成紀人也。其先曰李信，秦時爲將，逐得燕太子丹者也。廣居右北平，匈奴聞之，號曰「漢之飛將軍」。
The record
Shin is a manga hero. Li Xin was a general of Qin. Sima Qian gave him a few lines. Yasuhisa Hara built a life on them.
- Shin is a manga hero. Li Xin was a general of Qin. Sima Qian gave him a few lines. Yasuhisa Hara built a life on them.
- Li Xin, a general of Qin: young, strong and brave.
- With a few thousand men he chased Dan, crown prince of Yan, to the Yan River, and in the end beat him and took him. The king thought him able and brave.
- The king asked Li Xin: I mean to take Chu. How many men will you need? Li Xin said: no more than two hundred thousand.
- He asked Wang Jian. Wang Jian said: nothing less than six hundred thousand.
- The king said: General Wang is old. How timid! General Li is bold and brave. He is right.
- The men of Chu followed him three days and nights without rest. They broke Li Xin’s army, took two of its camps and killed seven commanders. Qin ran.
- General Li Guang came from Chengji in Longxi. His ancestor was Li Xin, a general of Qin, the one who caught Dan, crown prince of Yan.
- When Li Guang held Youbeiping, the Xiongnu heard of it and called him the Flying General of Han.
The maker:Yasuhisa Hara原泰久
Born:1975, Kiyama, Saga
Serialised:Weekly Young Jump, from 26 January 2006
In print:120M copies
- Born in Kiyama, Saga.
- He studies film.
- A systems engineer, writing programs.
- A few months as Takehiko Inoue’s assistant.
- On 26 January, Kingdom begins.
- The Grand Prize.
- Eighty volumes, and still running.
01/07Kiyama, SagaStroke 1 of 23
1975
Born in Kiyama, Saga.
Movies can’t be made alone, but with manga, I can do it all by myself!
Volumes:0
Photo and words via Kingdom Wiki. Kingdom © Yasuhisa Hara / Shueisha. Stroke order: KanjiVG.
廉頗
What’s needed to become a Great General is… the willpower of a hundred! The arm strength of a hundred! The knowledge of a hundred!
王騎
As if he could fly, he would materialize anywhere and everywhere wielding that ferocity.
嬴政
Law.
信
I am… a man who will become a Great General of the Heavens!!
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