Like Glory Company, it almost started from the game of the Three Kingdoms, covering various types of games, such as intelligence games, war chess games, action games and card games. Only those who have access to the three countries can make a splash. Including the Japanese cartoonist Yokoyama Mitsuteru's "The History of the Three Kingdoms", which has influenced several generations.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Japanese have a soft spot for the history of the Three Kingdoms, but it is debatable to say that the Japanese prefer the Three Kingdoms to their own history of the Warring States.
In a large sample survey, the top three favorite historical figures in Japan are Nobunobu Oda, Ryoma Sakamoto, and Motoichi. The top ten are Takeda Shingen and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but there are only two figures in the three countries.
Many characters in the Japanese Warring States history are household names, including those in the new writing school in the shogunate era, such as Hijikata Toshizo, Okita Souji and Kogoro. Often imitated by children. Among the top ten comic works in history, there is a work "Rogue Mark" with the end of the curtain era as the background.
In recent years, it has not only been adapted into animation, but also shot into a live-action version by Sato and Wu Jingxiao. It can be seen that the history of the Warring States is the history that the Japanese are most keen on.
On the contrary, in China, the book Yi Zhongtian Pinsan Kingdom alone sold tens of millions of copies, which broke the sales record of books in China as early as ten years ago. Moreover, from the sales of the four classic novels, the sales of Romance of the Three Kingdoms far exceed those of the other three works. Although The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not an official history, it is enough to prove how strongly China people feel about the Three Kingdoms.
All these data are telling us a fact for reference. People, whether China readers or Japanese readers, actually prefer the history of their own country.