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Let's say you want to make an anime series. You decide to base it off of a manga which is ''itself'' based on [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms
And yet, somehow, the makers of this series ''found'' a way....
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Now as far as the plot itself is concerned, it runs thus: The Han Dynasty is corrupt and crumbling into chaos. Evil cultist Zhang Jiao and his Yellow Turban armies are sweeping across the countryside burning, pillaging, and generally doing whatever it is that evil cultists do. Stepping up to the plate on the side of good are Liu Bei Xuande (the virtuous fresh-faced [[Kid Hero]]) and his sworn brothers, Guan Yu Yunchang ( [[The Stoic]] [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] ), and Zhang Fei Yide (the [[Boisterous Bruiser]]). Liu Bei tries to put together a volunteer army to bring peace to all of China, but unfortunately for him, there are are other factions in the neighborhood vying for power. These include the ambitious Sun family, and the sinister "survival by any means necessary" Warlord Cao Cao. Now if all this kind of sounds familiar to you, then you've probably played one of the many video games inspired by this story, namely the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'' strategy games or the ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' [[Hack and Slash]] battle games. (Notably, although the anime ends far earlier than both the novel and what the games cover, within that timeframe it actually hews to the novel itself a ''lot'' more than ''Dynasty Warriors'' does.) Or perhaps you've even read -GASP!-- the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028071226/http://www.threekingdoms.com/ original source novels this anime was based on.]
If you're an Asian history buff or a ''Dynasty Warriors'' fan, you may get a kick out of watching this anime. You may find the cheap animation and the cartoony look of the characters detracts a lot from the seriousness of the story. (Or you may find it charmingly quaint and campy.) It's never been released in the West, but you should be able to find a [[Fan Sub]] of the series if you look a while.
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* [[Battle Aura]]
* [[The Big Guy]] (Guan Yu)▼
* [[Blood Brothers]] (Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei)
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]] (Zhang Fei)
* [[Diagonal Cut]] (Although these tends to not be so gory since most of the soldier extras, as stated before, look like cardboard cutouts.)
* [[Doing
* [[Gentle Giant]] (Guan Yu. He's the most even-tempered and diplomatic of the Three Sworn Brothers.)
* [[Heel Face Turn]] and [[Face Heel Turn]] (These occur often as power shifts, causing most of the characters to switch loyalties at some point or other.)
** Cao Cao toys with this trope by ending up somewhere in the middle, giving his advisor Cheng Yu hell when his scheme to force Xu Shu to leave Liu Bei succeeds but causes Xu Shu's mother to hang herself out of shame. On the one hand he may have called it despicable to have used a forged letter, on the other hand he probably realized that Xu Shu would refuse to advise him (thus negating the point somewhat), and at least Liu Bei's deprived too. too bad Xu Shu first told Liu Bei who "Sleeping Dragon" was...
* [[Kid Hero]] (Liu Bei, at the beginning.)
▲* [[Power Trio]] (Liu Bei - Ego, Guan Yu - Superego, and Zhang Fei - Id )
▲* [[The Big Guy]] (Guan Yu)
* [[The Messiah]] (Liu Bei)
* [[The Stoic]] (Guan Yu}
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