List of media adaptations of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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The following is a list of media adaptations of Luo Guanzhong's 14th century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms , one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The story has been adapted in numerous forms, including films, television series, manga and video games.

Contents

Novels

Chinese manhua

Japanese manga

Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been adapted into several Japanese manga, with varying degrees of historical accuracy and faithfulness to the original story and popular tradition. [3] [4] Some of the more widely read manga in Japan include:

Korean manhwa

Film

Television

Animation

Live action

Video games

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Dynasty Warriors

Miscellaneous

Others

Card games

Board games

Footnotes

  1. Gentoku is a Japanese pronunciation for Xuande.
  2. Koutou is a Japanese pronunciation for Jiangdong by Takaguchi Rinrin (滝口 琳琳)
  3. Ryofu is a Japanese pronunciation for Lü Bu.
  4. Sousou Moutoku is the Japanese pronunciation of Cao Cao Mengde.

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