A TV anime adaptation of Ikka Matsuki’s NIPPON SANGOKU has been officially announced. A teaser visual and the first promotional trailer have been released. The series is scheduled to premiere in April 2026, with animation production handled by STUDIO KAFKA.
Official Trailer:
Teaser Visual:
CAST:
Kensho Ono as Aoteru Misumi
Asami Seto as Saki Higashimachi
Takashi Nagasako as Denki Taira
Megumi Han as Narrator
STAFF:
Original Story: “NIPPON SANGOKU” by Ikka Matsuki, published by Shogakukan
Director: Kazuaki Terasawa
Character Desig/Chief Animation Director: Takahiko Abiru
Animation Studio: STUDIO KAFKA
Production: NIPPON SANGOKU Partners
The original manga is serialized on Shogakukan’s Manga One app and the Ura Sunday website. The series has surpassed 700,000 copies in cumulative circulation.
Twin Engine describes the anime as follows:
In a near-future Japan where civilization has regressed due to nuclear war, natural disasters, and corrupt governance. The nation fractures into three, plunging into a new Three Kingdoms era as each vies for supremacy. Aoteru Misumi, once an obscure local bureaucrat, sets his sights on the reunification of Japan. Armed with vast knowledge and exceptional eloquence, he steadily rises. The legend of the man later known as the prodigious strategist begins now
Source: Comic Natalie
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