Personally I would be very disappointed and may be even drop the manga if they don't get a proper closure of their romance arc and if kyoukai die. Personally I hope hara actually focus more on their relationship even more than before after current chapters bcz shin and kyoukai relationship is one of the best thing of this manga.
Whole panel minus some zhao guys :)
I have seen a lot of people saying kyoukai will die before the end of the manga , personally I don't think so bcz she literally is the most favourite character in this manga.
Personally I can bet on it that she will not die bcz she is literally the most popular character in the story and secondly shin has decendants in real life and if kyoukai will die I don't see shin marrying another women.
Third killing her will definitely make the manga less enjoyable for many fans bcz their are literally a lot of fans reading kingdom just bcz of shin and kyoukai.
One of the generals from Terracotta army. It's actually insane that we could have real looks of top Qin general's.
We know Shin isn't known for his tactics. This moment had me laughing
As the title says. I’ve been reading Kingdom for ages and it’s one of my top mangas. Have some friends that would love the story and I would like to recommend Kingdom to them, but they aren’t big manga readers. I’ve heard mixed things about the anime, most related to animation, but from screenshots and thumbnails it seems like the later seasons have gotten better.
Overall, is the anime worth watching? Both for myself as a manga only reader for Kingdom up to this point, and for my friends who have never read the manga?
I'm pretty sure Riboku planned all this. Is the HSU falling into a trap?
Guys, I'm rereading again the manga. Can't believe Kanki's aura. Every single fucking time he appears, he dominates the space. It's unbelievable what a sick character Hara cooked up. Not going into details here but his last victory was just so insane it made my mind go numb.
How can we recover from this? Kanki was such an important asset to utilize in parallel to Shin's story..I feel Hara needs to step up his writing now, since he doesn't have Kanki anymore.
We saw how, after inflicting the wound that ultimately proved fatal to A Kou, he launched an attack that ripped off his helmet and left him with one eye.
But we also saw how the wound spread beyond his eye and reached his face, and at times he looked like he was about to faint. I wondered if the wound might have caused him permanent damage in addition to the loss of his eye, and that's why he's no longer fit to be on the front lines.
I really am in shock in how a relationship that has only been expanded on in a handful of chapters that feature background characters left me as emotional as it did. I had figured Shiryou didn't die but this interaction makes the Seika army even more interesting to me. I haven't read any further than this chapter but I really do hope that Sou'ou and Shiryou just retire lmao, I hate seeing people in relationships in these wars its the same thing with Bihei and honestly thats starting to become Riboku and Kaine as well for me. Hara has built up these relationships so well even if its within one chapter or hundreds. Im not ready for the heartbreak thats bound to come.
We've seen Moubu struggle very blatantly against Man'U. Although it's fair to ay Moubu didn't go all out, Man'U still felt stronger than Kan Mei, despite himself saying that he's weaker than Kan Mei.
What do you think about that interaction ?
Honestly I’m pretty disappointed with Ka Ryo Ten lately. Every time there’s a strong tactician on the other side she just completely breaks down or gets lost until someone bails her out. I get it when it’s someone like Riboku but even in this arc I’d like to see her fully outthink at least one of his students or a similar level opponent on her own. And I’d love to see her start using tactics that aren’t strictly by the book too. If she’s going to be the tactician for a future great general of the heavens she needs to start stacking some real merits, because right now it’s hard to see her at that level. Would love to know other people‘s opinion.
Hey r/Kingdom,
Every Kingdom fan has imagined it. What would it feel like to start in Shin’s shoes, survive your first battle, and slowly build your own unit from there? Recruit your own Kyou Kai. Find your own Heki. Earn your name on the battlefield, one battle at a time.
That's the game we've been building.
Today, our Kickstarter for Under the Heavens is officially live!
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In short, the game is our love letter to Kingdom.
The response from this community to our prologue demo earlier this year genuinely shaped where we took the project. A lot of the feedback made it into the game. So before anything else, thank you.
If you haven't played the demo yet, the prologue is live on Steam and you can step onto the battlefield for the first time.
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I honestly think that Shibashou's destiny is already presented by Hara, mainly at the start of this current arc.
As we know, he is based on the real Sima Shang, and the last information that we have of him is that he is disposed of his rank after Riboku falls, but after that, nothing; he simply disappears from history. This gives Hara a full plate to do a lot of things.
So, my theory is:
After Riboku's execution is announced, Shibashou somehow will lose Seika because of two reasons: one being a dumb commandment of the king to punish over failure (as we see historically), and because Qin's advance will be unstoppable.
Seeing this scenario, he will choose to retreat to his city and take everything/everyone he can, and the place to where they will go was shown at the start of this actual arc.
As we know, history shows that Prince Ka will be able to escape Zhao's fall, and with his followers, they create the state of Dai. But the point is, the state of Dai is already shown in this arc, together with the introduction of Duke Rei Ju (Shibashou's master). Maybe I'm confused by translation, but I think it's the same state.
Shibashou has no patriotism or affection for Zhao, as shown innumerable times, even in the last omake, where is showed that he too had a wish to build a kingdom(and ironically, he was the man who frustrated Ousen, lol). His bond with Zhao was two things: Riboku and Seika. Losing both, there's no motive for him to fight to the death in the current battle.
After this point, there are two paths for Hara to follow:
1 — He and Duke Rei Ju escape the battle and group their armies. Together, they start to retreat to Dai, and Shibashou goes to Seika, since it's close to Dai, and there he takes everything and everyone and abandons the city. Before reaching Dai, he or Duke Rei Ju somehow enters in contact with Prince Ka (I would say that Riboku already made an agreement of refuge for the royal family into Dai). Then, the state would reunite Prince Ka as the king, principally because of the word political scenery of Dai and the common bloodline between the first Zhao king and ancient Dai king(something that Shibashou have no disagreements, since Ka is a type of person that he would respect), Shibashou and Duke Rei Ju as the heads of military, with the inhabitants of the state and some remnants of Zhao and Seika as their military.
In history, Dai endured 6 years before the fall. For a new state enduring so much in that era, it needs at least some capable military figures, and both Shibashou and Duke are monsters (we still need to see further performance of Duke, but from what was shown, we know he's far from ordinary), and would obviously have the remnants generals of Seika, I honestly believe that at least one of them will survive this current war.
The next point for this theory is the Yan invasion. Historically, Dai and Yan form an alliance against Qin at the start of the Yan invasion, and this would serve to put some light in the arc, because until the end, the only military figure that Yan has is Ordo, someone who's far from 6GG level physically and mentally. The alliance with Dai, with Duke, Shibashou and Ordo as military heads, would put at least a real fight to have a fun arc.
And the last point is Ouhon. Wang Ben (Ouhon's historical figure) is responsible for Dai's fall, and ironically, he's right now facing the first general of this state. So, the end of Shibashou would be dying in the alliance with Yan wars or in the defense of Dai. The last option is what I think is the coolest, since I would like to see Ouhon doing a feat like winning a duel against someone with the physical level of a high 3GH/6GG, principally the guy who almost killed his father.
The second path, which I think is less probable, is Shibashou and Seika's commanders being absorbed into Qin's army after they see how well Seika's people are treated — which I hardly believe would happen because first, they DON'T want to do war to conquer, and second, I can't find a place for another 6GG level in the Qin army, since Hara can't use him to do anything really important, because he disappeared from history. So you can't just put him to kill Gaimou in Wei's conquest, for example. The second option of Qin annexation would put him to the conquered Zhao in a similar position that Tou is to Han — something I doubt because of obviously low confidence.