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Kingdom is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhisa Hara. It provides a fictionalized account of the Warring States period primarily through the experiences of the war orphan Xin and his comrades as he fights to become the greatest general under the heavens, and in doing so, unifying China for the first time in 500 years.
Kingdom was the fifth best-selling manga of 2015, with over 8.5 million copies sold. [74] It was the third best-selling manga of 2016, with over 6.5 million copies sold. [75] It was the third best-selling manga of 2017, with over 6.1 million copies sold. [76] It was the sixth best-selling manga of 2018, with over 4.9 million copies sold. [77]
Yasuhisa Hara (Japanese: 原 泰久, Hepburn: Yasuhisa Hara, born June 9, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series Kingdom.. With more than 100 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide, Kingdom is one of the best-selling manga in history.
The manga is in full-color available in English on Amazon Kindle in North America. As of October 16, 2016 a total of 200 volumes have been released. On December 27, 2017, the 17 Doraemon Long Stories volumes that were written by Fujiko F. Fujio were also released in full-color on Amazon Kindle.
Kingdom is a comic series created by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson, published in the British comic anthology 2000 AD starting in 2006. The story revolves around a humanoid genetically modified dog named after Gene Hackman , in the distant future.
When English-language licenses for a series are held by publishers in different regions, this is distinguished by the following abbreviations: NA for North America, UK for the United Kingdom, SG for Singapore, [n 1] HK for Hong Kong, and ANZ for Australia and New Zealand. Where only one publisher has licensed a series, the region is not indicated.
Therefore, Japanese books ("manga") were naturally and readily accepted by a large juvenile public who was already familiar with the series and received the manga as part of their own culture. A strong parallel backup was the emergence of Japanese video games, Nintendo / Sega , which were mostly based on manga and anime series.
The manga was released in the US by Tokyopop two years later in October 2005. [4] Yen Press now holds the rights to publish the books for the USA market. The first series, Kingdom Hearts, consists of four volumes, while the second series, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, has two volumes.