Jul 30, 2022
Kingdom is literally a fucking masterpiece for manga in general, i have only very few complaints here and there, but they don't take any points off the score for me in any way, there will be very minor spoilers in this.
For this review instead of using the chinese names, which MAL does, i'll be using the japanese ones.
Story
The story is about Shin and Ei Sei whom each have their own goals but work together to accomplish them.
Particularly what invests me so much into the story is the way it plays out, you are actually going on campaigns here in their own arcs, which is super
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interesting to see, whilst not being a 1 to 1 replica of historical events, it uses a lot of the set pieces and adds a few of it's own elements but mostly is accurate to historical events.
A thing i'd like to bring up for a bit is the romance, which i dislike in a ton of medium since it can feel super forced and not really earned, which in Kingdom there is some romance here and there but i don't have a problem with it since it doesn't feel forced as hell and isn't focused on too much.
Without spoiling too much i can't say much more about the story but i can talk about the characters which is partly why the story is so good.
Characters
The characters of Kingdom is arguably the best thing about it, it has a huge variety of characters which are not forgotten basically ever throughout the manga, and it's not just like only the major characters are important which a lot of other manga only like to focus on. Yes, the generals and such are usuallly the most interesting to focus on, but that doesn't mean the series ever focuses too much on them only.
Each general also has their own underlings which Kingdom takes excellent time in making them feel like actual characters instead of some henchmen with no feelings.
You'll have lovely characters from your shounen protagonist in a seinen manga. You'll have characters which can be inspirational. You'll have characters whom can be funny at times and defuse the situation. And you'll find characters with some of the most interesting stratagems which are honestly just fun to watch.
Art
The art for this manga is beautiful, it isn't the best i've ever seen, but i think it's definitely up there and have nothing to complain about here.
Enjoyment
I loved reading every chapter thus far and got a ton of enjoyment out of each and every one of them, it always has something up it's sleeve which makes it fun to read and it's one of them few manga where predicting what's going to happen is pretty hard, ofcourse in a campaign it's more obvious and you'll usually have a good idea over the overall outcome but the way it gets there is just insane.
Overall
Literal masterpiece, i know this can sound somewhat biased since i am fully caught up with basically everything in the "Kingdom Medium" but give it a chance and it won't dissapoint u, most likely, and in the case it does, it probably wasn't for u.
Have fun reading!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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