The main cast of the anime has also been revealed.
Ikka Matsuki’s manga, Nippon Sangoku, is getting an anime adaptation set to air in April 2026. Although the exact release date hasn’t been announced, the newly opened website and social media of the series unveiled the main cast and staff. A short trailer has also been released.
Nippon Sangoku anime main cast, staff, and other details
The main cast members of the anime are:
- Kensho Ono as Aotero Misumi
- Asami Seto as Saki Higashimachi
- Takashi Nagasako as Denki Taira
- Megumi Han as the Narrator
Kazuaki Terasawa directs the anime at Studio Kafka. Takahiko Abiru is the character designer and chief animation director. Other production staff members haven’t been announced yet. Two illustrations from Terasawa and Abiru have been released.
The anime is based on Ikka Matsuki’s manga of the same name, which began publishing on Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday website and MangaONE app in November 2021. The series has six tankobon volumes as of November 2024.
Nippon Sangoku was nominated for the eighth Next Manga Awards in 2022, ranking 17th out of 50 nominees. It would once again be nominated in 2023. In the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 edition, the series was ranked 12th for best manga for male readers. The series was also nominated for the 16th Manga Taisho award, where it ranked fifth. It would also receive ranked places in the Nationwide Publishers Recommended Comics of 2023, at third, and Da Vinci's “Book of the Year” at 22nd in the same year.
Twin Engine describes the story as:
In a near-future Japan where civilization has regressed due to nuclear war, natural disasters, and corrupt governance.
The nation fractures into three, plunging into a new Three Kingdoms era as each vies for supremacy.
Aoteru Misumi, once an obscure local bureaucrat, sets his sights on the reunification of Japan.
Armed with vast knowledge and exceptional eloquence, he steadily rises.
The legend of the man later known as the prodigious strategist begins now.