Kingdom

Action · Drama

Set during China's Warring States period, Kingdom follows servant boy Xin's fierce ambition to become a great general amid Qin's military and royal power struggles.

Synopsis

The Anime Lad

Xin and Piao are servant boys in ancient Qin who train relentlessly toward the same improbable dream of becoming great generals. Their low birth provides few official opportunities. A royal power struggle soon places that ambition beside the fate of a kingdom, where enthusiasm must begin learning the practical dimensions of warfare.

Super Eyepatch Fox

Ancient China is divided by war. Servant boys Xin and Piao train with wooden swords, dreaming of military greatness far beyond their station. Political conflict inside Qin pulls their small lives toward royal stakes. Xin enters a world of armies where rank must be earned and every battlefield can reshape the state.

Gigguku

Xin starts at the bottom of a brutal social order with a dream large enough to sound absurd. He wants to become a great general during the Warring States period, when armies and royal power decide entire futures. That impossible confidence is the spark. Kingdom keeps widening the scale around a boy who refuses to shrink.

Father's Basement

The first season's CG presentation is rough enough to repel viewers before the historical drama settles in. Beneath it is a forceful premise. Xin has no status and little polish, yet aims for the highest military honor in a fractured China. Qin's royal conflict gives that personal ambition immediate political weight.

When low-born servant boys Piao and Xin set out to become the world’s greatest war generals, they quickly find themselves caught up in a violent struggle between two noblemen plotting to overthrow the King. After Piao is killed protecting the rightful ruler of the kingdom of Qin, Xin sets out on a campaign for revenge that leads him straight into the fire of war.

What defines it

A grand historical war epic. Sweeping and intense.

Watch path

Watch the numbered main seasons in order. Announced continuations follow the released entries. Optional titles are not included in this main-series path.

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Kingdom (Zoku-hen)

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