As the masterpiece of Yokoyama Mitsuteru, a famous Japanese cartoonist, The History of the Three Kingdoms series is based on the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms by China and the historical novel The History of the Three Kingdoms by Japanese writer Ji Chuan Xiuji, supplemented by other historical facts, and reproduces the historical features of the Three Kingdoms period with a unique perspective, in the form of cartoons and easy-to-understand explanations.
Yokoyama Mitsuteru is a leading figure in Japanese comics. Representative works include Six Gods in One, Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Iron Man and Iron Man No.28, and most of them have been adapted into animated works. His cartoon Romance of the Three Kingdoms, based on China's Romance of the Three Kingdoms and four classical novels, has been serialized for 15 years and has been a best seller for many years.
When the nation becomes the world, will the heroes in the story bring different interpretations?
It is said that The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is seven points true and three points fictional. Seven points true let many people know the history of the Three Kingdoms period, and three points fictional let more people know the Three Kingdoms misleading.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, what was the history of the Three Kingdoms with turbulent mountains and rivers and smoke everywhere?
As far as official history is concerned, many events in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms are not true history:
For example, in the official history, Liu Sanren did not become sworn friends, but only mentioned "sharing the same bed and feeling like brothers" in the History of the Three Kingdoms, so the so-called "Three Oaths in Taoyuan" is not so justified.
For example, in the section "Meng De offered a knife", Cao Cao fled to his hometown after leaving Dong Zhuo, but in the history books, Wu Fu was the one who offered a knife to Dong Zhuo and assassinated him.
Another example is the chapter "Cao Cao killed Lv Boshe's family", "I would rather teach me to be negative to the whole world than to teach the whole world to be negative to me!" Its true historical record is "rather negative than negative."
There are many fictional characters and events in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the ultimate goal of which is to highlight the heroic deeds. If you have to dwell on official history, unofficial history or fiction, Romance of the Three Kingdoms will lose its interest.
Compared with novels or TV series, the history of the Three Kingdoms in the form of comics is more interesting, and the expressions and movements of characters are vividly displayed by Yokoyama Mitsuteru's unique expression, from which readers of all ages can experience different feelings of the Three Kingdoms.
This version of the cartoon is based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so we will still see some historical events that did not appear in the official history, but this does not affect our reading and understanding. Perhaps it is this combination of reality and reality that can reflect the uniqueness of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The first volume (volume 1~5) of the Three Kingdoms contains five volumes, namely, the Three Oaths of Taoyuan, the situation in the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's crusade against the army, the strategic decisive battle between Lu Bu and Cao Cao and Xuzhou, including the well-known story of Liu Taoyuan's Three Oaths, the warlords' alliance against Dong Zhuo, Diusim's honey trap, and Cao Cao's seizing the emperor to make the princes.
The story is lively and interesting, and the characters are distinctive. Many historical events show the grand scenes of historical background with nearly ten thousand pictures, so that all readers who love the heroic stories of the Three Kingdoms can appreciate their charm again in these cartoons.
What shocked me most about the series of cartoons of the Three Kingdoms was the original intention of Japanese cartoonist Yokoyama Mitsuteru: "I want to draw this cross-era and cross-era cartoon into a cartoon. Nowadays, children generally don't read the whole book "The History of the Three Kingdoms". However, by reading comics every month, maybe they can finish reading this book. "
What Yokoyama Mitsuteru said is not an individual phenomenon. As a reader, I dare not say that I have read the whole history of the Three Kingdoms. Romance of the Three Kingdoms was also read a long time ago but not finished, which may be a common problem for most people. Obviously, the story of the Three Kingdoms has strong limitations compared with the other three books in the four classical novels.
Children like to watch The Journey to the West because it is full of fantasy, adults like to watch A Dream of Red Mansions because of its complicated relationship and love story, and Water Margin is because of the loyalty embodied by Liangshan heroes. On the other hand, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is full of intrigue, intrigue and war scenes, which is the embodiment of wisdom and courage, but compared with younger readers, it is too profound.
On the basis of restoring real historical scenes and characters' events, Yokoyama Mitsuteru made appropriate adjustments and adaptations to the series of cartoons of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which made the dialogue between the characters in the book echo the existing scenes and made the overall effect more harmonious. The images of comic characters in the book are also more suitable for the characteristics of Japanese comics, and readers who like reading comics will increase their familiarity in the process of reading.
Take China's Three Kingdoms period as the stage to paint a magnificent historical picture. See how Yokoyama Mitsuteru restores a colorful stroke in the history of China in the form of cartoons, see how heroes in troubled times dominate one side in troubled times, see heroes from all walks of life scrambling to kick off the historical war of the Three Kingdoms, and see wonderful stories constantly. ...