

Direction
Imazawa crams decades of warfare into tight, kinetic sequences.
Writing
Zhuge Liang's mind games remain deliciously cruel.
Director
Tetsuo Imazawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century novel, which Chinese readers memorize like Shakespeare — the anime assumes you already know who dies horribly.
Fumi Hirano (Princess Lihua) was simultaneously voicing Lum in Urusei Yatsura — same year, completely different energy.
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