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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 third best selling manga in 2019, with over 7.6 million copies sold. [78] Kingdom was the second best-selling manga series in 2020, with over 8.2 million copies sold. [79] It was the ninth best selling manga in 2021, with over 4.6 million copies sold. [80] Volumes 67–69 were among the best-selling manga volumes of 2023. [81]
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.
A manga adaptation of the series by Satoshi Ueda began serialization on Overlap's Comic Gardo website on July 10, 2017. [5] The series is also licensed in North America by J-Novel Club. [6] As of July 2024, twelve tankōbon volumes have been released.
Manga (漫画, IPA: ⓘ) are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. [1] The term is also now used for a variety of other works in the style of or influenced by the Japanese comics.
The following is a list of the best-selling Japanese manga series to date in terms of the number of collected tankōbon volumes sold. All series in this list have at least 20 million copies in circulation. This list is limited to Japanese manga and does not include manhwa, manhua or original English-language manga.
This is a list of notable manga that have been licensed in English, listed by their English title. This list does not cover anime, light novels, dōjinshi, manhwa, manhua, manga-influenced comics, or manga only released in Japan in bilingual Japanese-English editions.
Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines such as Monthly Asuka and Monthly Shōnen Ace, and entertainment magazines such as Newtype. Since its founding, Kadokawa has expanded into the multimedia sector, namely in video games (as Kadokawa Games) and in live-action and animated films (as Kadokawa Pictures ).