The staff behind the anime adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s Kingdom, announced that the fifth anime series is coming in January 2024, and released a new teaser video and visual.
This series is set to feature the battle Koku You Hills, with Kanki against Kei Sha’s army, a conflict where Kanki leads his troops to fight in a region consisting of five tall hills, surrounded by a dense forest with small villages darted around the hills, ripe for certain unsavory tactics.
The staff for this series has yet to be announced, but the cast members are returning to reprise their roles, including Kentarō Itō as Kanki
▍About Kingdom
Kingdom is a historical-drama manga series written by Yasuhisa Hara, The series follows the real-life events of the Qin Dynasty, leading to the eventual rise of Ei Sei to become the First Emperor of Qin. The story follows Xin, a young boy who aspires to be a master general with his friend Piao. After learning of the plot to kill the youngest Emperor of China, Heisei. Xin Embarks on a journey through bloodshed, assassins, and war, to help Ei Sei retake his rightful place as the ruler of the Qin dynasty.
Kingdom has also been adapted into an anime series with currently four seasons, a live-action film, and a sequel to that film set to premiere later this year, and has also sold over 87 million copies making it one of the best-selling manga of all time, and won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
▍Kingdom Anime Cast
■ Shin – CV: Masakazu Morita
■ Ei Sei – CV: Jun Fukuyama
■ Karyō Ten – CV: Yoko Hikasa
■ Hyoko – CV: Shirō Saitō
■ Mobu – CV: Taiten Kusunoki
■ To – CV: Akio Kato
■ Kanki – CV: Kentarō Itō
■ Ō Sen – CV: Kenyu Horiuchi
■ Ō Hon – CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya
■ Moten – CV: Hirofumi Nojima
■ Riboku – CV: Toshiyuki Morikawa
■ Syunshinkun – CV: Yūya Uchida
■ Karin – CV: Atsuko Tanaka
■ Kanmei – CV: Miō Tanaka
■ Gohomei – CV: Daisuke Namikawa
■ Koyoku – CV: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
■ Hakurei – CV: Yūto Uemura
