The anime series "Kingdom" will have the fourth series for next spring
The 26th and final episode of Kingdom's third anime series concluded on Sunday, with the announcement that a fourth series will premiere next spring. A visual teaser with Sei Kyou (Cheng Jiao) also debuted with the slogan "I'm next":
The third anime series, based on the Yasuhisa Hara manga, premiered on NHK General in April 2020. The animation's production committee announced in the same month that it would delay the airing of episode 5 of the series and episodes. subsequent, due to the first state of emergency of the Japanese government, against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The third series aired on NHK General on April 4 this year. The anime resumed its airing from the first episode.
Funimation is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
The third series had a new production staff compared to the previous series. Kenichi Imaizumi (Reborn !, Brynhildr in the Darkness, After School Dice Club) directed the anime at Studio Signpost (the new name of Pierrot Plus). Noboru Takagi (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, Golden Kamuy, Baccano !, Altair: A Record of Battles) was in charge of the series scripts. Hisashi Abe (Sorcerer Hunters, Berserk (2016), Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System) designed the characters.
The series covered the Coalition Army Arc from the manga. Returning cast members include Masakazu Morita as Shin (Xin), Jun Fukuyama as Ei Sei, Rie Kugimiya as Karyō Ten, Kentaro Ito as Huan Ji, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ōhon, Hirofumi Nojima as Mōten, Shiro Saito as Biao Gong, Kenyuu Horiuchi as Wang Jian, Taiten Kusunoki as Mōbu and Akio Kato as Tō.
Hara's historical manga centers on the slave Xin and his dream of becoming a great general for the state of Qin. Xin helps Ying Zheng, the young King Qin, who shares his desire to unify China, to rise to power within the state. Xin goes to great lengths to become a superior commander of an army capable of defeating the Seven Warring States.
The record-breaking manga was published in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine in 2006. Hara said she is planning to write up to 100 volumes. A television anime adaptation premiered in 2012 and a second series premiered in 2013. Funimation streamed the series in North America and released both anime on DVD in 2016.
The manga inspired a live-action Shinsuke Sato film released in Japan in April 2019. Funimation began showing the film in theaters in the United States and Canada in August 2019.
The manga inspired a smartphone video game called Kingdom Dash !! which launched earlier this year.
