Amazon Prime Video announced on Tuesday that it will distribute and stream Nippon Sangoku The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun, the television anime of Ikka Matsuki’s Nippon Sangoku manga, beginning on April 5 in over 240 countries and territories. Amazon Prime Video will be the exclusive distributor for the anime outside of Japan. Amazon Prime Video revealed a new trailer for the anime, revealing that Tatsuya Kitani will perform the anime’s opening theme song “Hidane” (Flashpoint). The anime’s staff also revealed its main visual, more cast, staff, and April 6 premiere in Japan.
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Amazon Prime Video revealed the below visual for the anime.
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The newly announced cast members are:
Jun Fukuyama as Yoshitsune Asama
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Kazuhiro Yamaji as Mitsuhide Ryūmon
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Yūichi Nakamura as Yasuaki Kaku
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Taihi Kimura as Fuji III
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Minami Tsuda as Ōga Wajima
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Teruko Utsumi (Salaryman’s Club, Sarazanmai, You and I Are Polar Opposites) is in charge of series scripts, Seiki Tamura (the Ancient Magus’ Bride seasons 2 & 3, Ascendance of a Bookworm, K-ON!) is the art director, and Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, The Apothecary Diaries, Tower of God) is composing the music.
Additional new staff members include:
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Twin Engine, the anime’s producer, describes the anime:
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.
Kazuaki Terasawa (The Ancient Magus’ Bride second season, Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 “Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome” episode) is directing the anime at Studio Kafka, and Takahiko Abiru (The Ancient Magus’ Bride two seasons animation director, Vinland Saga two seasons character designer) is designing the characters and is also the chief animation director.
Matsuki launched the manga on Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app and Ura Sunday website in 2021. Shogakukan published the manga’s sixth compiled book volume in November 2024.
The manga was listed in Da Vinci news magazine’s 23rd annual “Book of the Year,” and was nominated in the 16th Manga Taisho awards in 2023. The manga was also listed in the top 20 manga for male readers in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
Source: Press release
