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Aniplus Asia Airs Kingdom Anime's Season 4
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Aniplus-Asia announced on Monday that that it will air the Kingdom anime's fourth season.
The fourth series will premiere in Japan on NHK General on April 9.
The new series will depict the aftermath of the Coalition Army Arc and the largest battle in history, which tore a great gash across Qin as well as all of China. Ei Sei tells Prince Sei Kyou (Cheng Jiao) of his lifelong ambition: to become the ruler who unites China. Shin and Ei Sei take another step closer to that ambition upon a new battlefield in the next series.
Yasuhisa Hara's historical manga centers around the slave boy Xin and his dream of becoming a great general for the state of Qin. Xin helps Ying Zheng, the young Qin king who shares his desire to unify China, rise to power within the state. Xin does all he can to become a superior commander of an army capable of defeating the Seven Warring States.
The third anime series premiered on NHK General in April 2020. The anime's production committee announced later that month that it was delaying the broadcast of the series' episode 5 and later episodes due to the Japanese government's first state of emergency against COVID-19. The third series resumed airing on NHK General in April 2021. The anime restarted its airing from the first episode. Aniplus-Asia aired the anime as it aired in Japan.
The third series had a new production staff compared to the previous series.
The manga inspired a live-action film by Shinsuke Satō that opened in Japan on April 2019.
The sequel film Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (To Distant Lands) will open on July 15.
