NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
Created by Kazuaki Terasawa
A revolution sparked by nuclear war, natural disaster, and misrule leads to the collapse of Japanese society. The country splits into three nations vying for hegemony, and the Sangoku era begins. Aoteru Misumi, a former agricultural officer, vows to reunify Japan. He rises through the ranks with only his knowledge and eloquence. Witness the legend of the man later hailed as a genius strategist. From TMDB
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60 of 98 · most liked firstOn one hand Nippon Sangoku is pretty sexist, on the other the female character designs are kinda good. Just nice to have a show where the women are adult women who look like adults, and who don't have moe-adjacent designs.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about whether I'd rather have a beautifully animated, well-written but misogynistic show about war/intrigue like Nippon Sangoku, or a pile of nonsensical shit that also has misogyny but a female protagonist like Red River, and unfortunately I have to go with the first one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nippon Sangoku is now my number one show of the season. This woman looks destined for greatness.
positive · AI labelView post →People get weirdly knee-jerky about this show presumably because Nippon Sangoku has 'nippon' in the title, which just means 'Three Kingdoms retelling in Japan'. The show opens with the narrator ranting about the greed of the rich and governments bringing about the downfall of civilization.
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommend me some military/war campaign adjacent series.. So, prior to this I'm not usually interested in military theme series, but then I give Tanya a watch, and I'm hooked ! I've also watched the movie. After that, I remember 86 and also finish those. The last one I've finished was Nippon Sangoku, and now I want more like these. I think it's related, but I also throw Sentenced to be a Hero having same vibe, though it's more focus on individual and has much more fantasy flavor setting-wise.…
neutral · AI labelView post →[Discussion] 5 Anime of 2026 With the Best Animation So Far, Ranked. In reverse order: - *Sentenced to Be a Hero* - *Frieren* S2 - *Nippon Sangoku* - *Witch Hat Atelier* - *Jujutsu Kaisen* S3
neutral · AI labelView post →Nippon Sangoku is quickly shaping up to be one of the best series I've ever covered. It's just heater after heater, every single week.
positive · AI labelView post →[Discussion] The 10 Best New Anime You Should Be Watching In Spring 2026. *Nippon Sangoku* *Snowball Earth* *Scenes from Awajima* *Kill Blue* *Mao* *Marriagetoxin* *The Ramparts of Ice* *Daemons of the Shadow Realm* *Go for it, Nakamura!* *Witch Hat Atelier* One of the comments decried *Akane-banashi* erasure and I agree. You shouldn't sleep on that one.
neutral · AI labelView post →TV Release Roundup, April 2026. | Name | Series | Date of Release | Platform | Genre(s) | Country of Origin | | ------------------------------------------ | -------------- | --------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------- | | Locker Diaries | New Series | 4/1/2026 | Disney+ | Comedy, Musical, Youth | United States |…
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon Prime Video has revealed an English-dubbed trailer for the Nippon Sangoku anime, which will debut on April 5.
neutral · AI labelView post →[Discussion] 10 Best Anime Shows Of 2026 (So Far) - SlashFilm. - *Journal with Wish* - *Jujutsu Kaisen* - *Frieren* S2 - *The Demon King's Daugther Is Too Kind!!* - *You and I Are Polar Opposites* - *Hell's Paradise* S2 - *Steel Ball Run* - *Daemons of the Shadow Realm* - *Witch Hat Atelier* - *Nippon Sangoku*
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished season 1 of Nippon Sangoku. It's so good. To me it's a "here's how I can get someone older into anime" kind of show because it's so impressive and stylistic and well-produced. It's easily gonna be in my "top anime shows of the year" list.
positive · AI labelView post →Besides continuing to watch each excellent episode of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Witch Hat Atelier, and others, I also gave a few new things a try this week: * **Nippon Sangoku** - I watched the first five episodes of this one. First off, gorgeous art. Very unique style. Looks great both still and in motion. Unfortunately I don't think the writing works for me. It feels like it's trying to convince me that certain characters are smart simply by making everyone around them extremely stupid.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Who else is watching Nippon Sangoku? This show is something else, man. ❤️
positive · AI labelView post →Nippon Sangoku is quickly becoming my favorite show this season.
positive · AI labelView post →Some obvious no brainers: - Dorohedoro S2 - Witch Hat Atelier - Re:Zero S4 - Classroom Of The Elite S4 - Dr. Stone Science Future Pt 3 Maybe these will be good: - MARRIAGETOXIN - Because Studio Bones - Liar Game - Because MadHouse - Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring - Because Studio WIT Others I'll try a couple of episodes: - Fist Of The Northstar reboot - Beginning After The End S2 - I'm just weird and actually watched S1 - Rooster Fighter - Too weird a concept not to watch -…
neutral · AI labelView post →The Nippon Sangoku anime has revealed 4 more cast and a new promo video before the show's April 5 debut on Amazon Prime Video.
neutral · AI labelView post →Silly awards time! (I missed this last season because I was recovering from bronchitis—mea culpa.) * Worst subtitles award: *Snowball Earth*. Rendering incoherent noises (including incoherent monster noises) as "Bach!" because there's a plosive at the beginning has got to be a new low. I presume an LLM went rogue. (And the runner-up would be whatever series keeps using "rouge" where it clearly means "rogue", but I'm blanking on which one it is.) * Worst name localization award: *Yuusha…
neutral · AI labelView post →Nippon Sangoku IS Romance of the Three Kingdoms and it makes sense that before, during and after every single episode I'm like WHY CAN'T I WATCH THIS ENTIRE SERIES IN ONE SETTING THIS WHIPS ASS
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite one at the moment from everything i’ve started this season is Nippon Sangoku, it looks promising.
positive · AI labelView post →My top 10 show of the Spring season: 1.Nippon Sangoku 2.Akane-banashi 3.A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA 4.Agents of the Four Seasons 5.Witch Hat Atelier 6.The Ramparts of Ice 7.Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class 8.Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy
positive · AI labelView post →Finished Nippon Sangoku. My anime of the season. I usually find politics and strategy talk really boring n anime, but this show had me hooked every single ep. Incredible show and I cant wait for s2
positive · AI labelView post →Watched a sort of interesting movie - [**Kimi no Koe wo Todoketai**](https://myanimelist.net/anime/33218/Kimi_no_Koe_wo_Todoketai) aka **I Want to Deliver Your Voice**. It was a valiant attempt at a heartwarming slice-of-life, and had a pretty good central idea and nice art and character designs, but that was about it. The story was told too fitfully - sometimes too quickly and sometimes too slowly and with too many gaps, so it didn't flow as well as it should have. The animation, in spite…
neutral · AI labelView post →Spent part of last week trying to slog my way through [Kimi no Iru Machi](https://myanimelist.net/anime/17741/kimi_no_iru_machi). I had watched the first episode years ago and thought it looked promising, but had since forgotten the title, though the memory of seeing the episode came back to me from time to time. I finally stumbled on it last week and thought that was serendipity. But it wasn't. More than anything else, I just couldn't work out how it was that a love polygon had built up…
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally done with **Nana**. It's among my least favourite non-seasonal watches of 2026. I liked the first half much, much more than the second one, which I struggled to finish. Character introductions and Nana and Hachiko's friendship development were fun to watch, but when Takumi appeared and THE THING happened the story just reached the peak of annoyance for me. Hachiko's taste in men is diabolical; she was cursed by the Great Demon Lord. ::: spoiler **Spring 2026** I won't be sticking…
neutral · AI labelView post →My only complaint regarding what's surely the oddest/most interesting show of the year Nippon Sangoku is that it wastes its opening minutes telling exactly what its post apocalyptic Meiji-era Japan is all about when it should have been confident enough to just throw us into its world
neutral · AI labelView post →Already finished, might be my number one: **An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess** Sweet and funny and goofy and charming and a pure pleasure from start to finish. Bertia is easily my favorite character of the season. Not finished but might end up my number one: **My Ribdiculous Reincarnation** (and that's the first time I've actually written out that godawful localized title and will also be the last) Bizarre and hilarious and stylistically unique. Went from…
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching the "Nippon Sangoku (日本三國)" anime and it's been quite interesting so far. The 1st ep is a bit meh (we start with the Dead Wife trope), but the art is really beautiful. (Also, the conflicts and stratagems discussions are giving me the itch to finally watch the "Three Kingdoms" series~)
neutral · AI labelView post →Nippon Sangoku might end up my favorite show of the Spring season. It's a great political thriller.
positive · AI labelView post →I already gave it a shoutout in my seasonal anime thread, but want to highlight Nippon Sangoku again — based on the first 3 episodes, this is one of the best anime series I’ve watched in years. Love it.
positive · AI labelView post →Been watching Nippon Sangoku. It's nationalismslop but its also good if you see it as a comedy. I'm not an idiot so I'll allow myself a japan nationalist show as a treat.
unlabelledView post →Kamiina Botan, WHA, Awajima, Nakamura-kun, Nippon Sangoku, Yomi no Tsugai, and Candy Caries are my heavy hitters. A bunch more of stuff like Akanebanashi, Kirio, Leaf's show, etc I'll be keeping an eye on but I'm not as immediately sold on as those
unlabelledView post →I am catching up with last season and the start of this season. Great: - Dorohedoro S2 - Classroom Of The Elite S4 Meh: - Rooster Fighter/Niwatori Fighter - TBATE S2 There's still loads of shows I want to watch: Witch Hat Atelier. Nippon Sangoku. Four Seasons. Kanan-Sama sounds hilarious. Needy Girl Overdose. Mao. Akane banashi. Daemons Of The Shadow Realm. Ace Of Diamond S2. Liar Game. Hero's Rib. MARRIAGETOXIN. Dr Stone. And probably many more.
unlabelledView post →Picked this up on a whim because the screenshots of it looked really good. Pretty good so far. Show: Nippon Sangoku
unlabelledView post →Nippon Sangoku It was like somebody's world building doc was copy-pasted into a script and then made into a TV show
unlabelledView post →Nippon Sangoku more like nippon sangood show
unlabelledView post →anyway new GITS is obviously great and beautiful but also if you lament all other anime looking the same or whatever and haven't taken a look at the recent Nippon Sangoku you're not trying hard enough. Look at this shit the entire show just looks like this the entire time youtu.be/nW2CpHcmlo4?...
unlabelledView post →So Nippon Sangoku is really Nihonjinron: The Series, huh. What a ride.
unlabelledView post →Finally started Nippon Sangoku and god this show is cool +5 bonus points for this guy who has Yagyu's VA
unlabelledView post →NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun This show was such an enjoyable experience! I loved watching it weekly, even if I did get lost in the sheer scale of the story sometimes. Keven Penkin did such an amazing job on the music, this was one of the better anime of the season.
unlabelledView post →Nippon Sangoku Had a blast with this. Fun Three Kingdoms inspired show, that despite being focused on war and intrigue maintains an underlying current of weirdness/sillyness/unhingeness. Really wasn't sold on the first ep, but loved the later eps.
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unlabelledView post →Nippon Sangoku I know a lot of people didn't like the way this show was animated but I liked it. It felt different and I think in it's way, the show was beautifully made. I hate real life politics but I tend to like shows with political themes. It's good, looking forward to hopefully seeing more
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unlabelledView post →Current Season: (Context: Most shows I watch with a group of friends and we cut down until we have 16. I will sometimes watch some of the cut stuff on my own. I'll start with friend stuff.) - Witch Hat Atelier: Enjoying this show. It's reasonably high quality, creative, etc. I'd say that it hasn't quite reached the level I enjoyed Frieren yet, but solid none the less. - Short Skirt and Clutz: We've been surprised by how much we've enjoyed this. It's still a mostly generic romcom, but it…
unlabelledView post →The TRAX Anime Spring 2026 playlist is here! Listen tracks from series such as: Yowayowa Sensei, Kanteishi (Kari) Maid-san wa Taberu Dake, Nigetsuri, Nippon Sangoku, or Koori no Jouheki. 🍁 #Spotify 🎶 t.co/6EJ4ZCilDP Web Preview 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 t.co/xEl7eYdgxL 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 t.co/4xUnTilSnV #animemusic #music #anizeen
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unlabelledView post →Huh, the pairing of Nippon Sangoku and Wolf’s Rain at 3AM was oddly fitting There’s not much that looks or sounds like either series these days
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unlabelledView post →This is Tsune-chan-san from Nippon Sangoku! Best series of the season so far imo and you can find him from E2 onward, he immediately steals the show
unlabelledView post →Wait, Nippon Sangoku is a Dudes In Meetings show? You son of a bitch, I'm in
unlabelledView post →It's a fantasy series, I think it could end up being one of the best fantasy anime ever. It's just that good. Nippon Sangoku is also very good imo. Alt-history where Japan returns to a new Warring States period, follows an aspiring military strategist.
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