Sangokushi (三国志) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's retelling of the Chinese literary classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It was adapted into a television anime called Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (横山光輝 三国志).
Liu Bei Xuande (劉備玄徳, Ryūbi Gentoku) Voiced by: Daiki NakamuraGuan Yu Yunchang (関羽雲長, Kanu Unchō) Voiced by: Shinpachi TsujiZhang Fei Yide (張飛翼徳, Chōhi Yokutoku) Voiced by: Keiji FujiwaraZhao Yun Zilong (趙雲子龍, Chōun Shiryū) Voiced by: Jūrōta KosugiZhuge Liang Kongming (諸葛亮孔明, Shokatsuryō Kōmei) Voiced by: Show HayamiHong Furong (鴻芙蓉, Kōfuyō)An original character in the manga. She was a daughter of Hong family, who Zhang Fei served. When
Liu Bei escaped from the Yellow Turban, he saved her. Meeting Liu Bei and falling in love with him from his younger day, that makes her based on
Lady Gan.
Xianglan (香蘭, Kōran) Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi and Kikuko InoueAn original character in the anime, she was Liu Bei's apprentice who grew up to be his wife. She died of her injuries during the
Battle of Changban, this makes her based on
Lady Mi.
Cao Cao Mengde (曹操孟徳, Sōsō Mōtoku) Voiced by: Yasunori MatsumotoXiahou Chun (夏侯淳, Kakōjun) Voiced by: Kōsuke MeguroAlthough his name should be Xiahou Dun (夏侯惇), both the anime and the manga named him
Xiahou Chun (夏侯淳).
Dian Wei (典韋, Ten'i) Voiced by: Masahiro AnzaiZhang Liao (張遼, Chōryō) Voiced by: Tomomichi NishimuraXun Yu (荀彧, Jun'iku) Voiced by: Masashi Ebara and Michitaka KobayashiCheng Yu (程昱, Teiiku) Voiced by: Bin Shimada and Jun HazumiCao hong
Sun Quan Zhongmou (孫権仲謀, Sonken Chūbō) Voiced by: Nobuo TobitaSun Jian (孫堅, Sonken) Voiced by: Bin ShimadaSun Ce (孫策, Sonsaku) Voiced by: Shigeru NakaharaZhou Yu (周瑜, Shūyu) Voiced by: Unshou IshizukaLu Su (魯粛, Roshuku) Voiced by: Aruno TaharaZhuge Jin (諸葛瑾, Shokatsukin) Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi and Kazuo HayashiEmperor Xian (献帝, Kentei) Voiced by: Ai Orikasa and Hikaru MidorikawaDong Zhuo (董卓, Tōtaku) Voiced by: Ryūzaburō ŌtomoLü Bu Fengxian (呂布奉先, Ryofu Hōsen) Voiced by: Kazuki YaoDiaochan (貂蝉, Chōsen) Voiced by: Ai OrikasaChen Gong Gongdai (陳宮公台, Chinkyū Kōdai) Voiced by: Hirotaka SuzuokiYuan Shao (袁紹, Enshō) Voiced by: Ikuya SawakiGongsun Zan (公孫瓚, Kōsonsan) Voiced by: Nobuaki FukudaLiu Biao (劉表, Ryūhyō) Voiced by: Kazuhiko KishinoNarrator Voiced by: Shinji OgawaThe manga was first serialized in the Kibō no Tomo magazine, which changed its name to Comic World in 1978, and then to Comic Tom in 1980.
Although Eiji Yoshikawa only wrote the story up to Zhuge Liang's death in the Battle of Wuzhang Plains, the manga continued until the fall of Shu Han.
With this manga, Mitsuteru Yokoyama won the 1991 Japanese Cartoonist Association Award for Excellence.
The anime was largely faithful to the manga, though it centered mainly on the camps of Liu Bei and Cao Cao, often minimizing the scenes of other camps. The anime stopped after the Battle of Red Cliffs, which is about the midway through the manga series.
Opening"River of Time" (時の河, Toki no Kawa) by Fence of Defense"Don't Look Back" by Fence of DefenseEnding"Sky" (空, Sora) by Mimori Yusa"Standing Alone" by Fence of Defense 