One of the summer series that’s getting close to hitting with a special edition version of the first episode is Kingdom, a new thirty-eight episode series that’s coming from the manga of the same name by Yasuhisa Hara. The first episode, double length as it clocks in at fifty minutes, is set to air on June 4th at 7am in Japan with new episodes following every Monday thereafter. The original work has been going since 2006 in the weekly mag Young Jump and has hit twenty-six volumes as of this writing. No embeddable trailer has arrived yet, but you can visit the official site to get a look at it and see how they’re incorporating the 3DCG material for the series here.
Plot Concept: Kingdom follows Li Xin and Hyo, two boys without families in the Warring States Period when China has been embroiled in war for five centuries. Despite living like slaves, the boys strive to realize their dream of becoming warlords.
[Source: ANN]