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When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, it was a magnificent era that impressed countless Chinese, and countless military generals and ministers were famous in history at that time.
"Wolong: Skyfall", released on March 3, can be called one of the most anticipated triple-A masterpieces for Chinese players in 2023, and after it was exposed in June last year, it has been on the hot search of Weibo, Kuaishou, B station and other online platforms several times as a circle-breaking attitude. The 2 "Renwang" launched by the game production team in the past are also excellent works, and the development strength is undoubted, but it can be seen that the theme of the Three Kingdoms is the real reason why this game is highly anticipated.
Regardless of the results of "Wolong: Skyfall", domestic players have never been able to mind it - this is another "Three Kingdoms work made by the Japanese". Japan's fascination with the Three Kingdoms has also gone far beyond the conventional situation of the next country's love of exotic stories.
Japan's ACG industry is far more developed than live-action film and television, and the Three Kingdoms have always been a popular theme at that time. As early as the 80s and 90s, an animation that cost 1.5 billion yen came out, the animation "Dawn of Heroes", "Burning Yangtze River" and "Distant Earth" three parts, the importance of shooting and national influence, similar to the "Journey to the West" animation produced by CCTV in the 90s. The first "Dawn of Heroes" eponymous BGM was later used by TVB "Dragon Babu" and other works, and it also has a high reputation in China.
In the field of games, Japan is a pioneer in promoting the culture of the three countries to the world. It all started with a birthday present received by Yoichi Ekawa, president of Koei Corporation: a personal computer. Koei switched from dye company to game company, and in 1985 released the world's first three-kingdom-themed video game "Three Kingdoms".
CCTV's 94th version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series is relatively golden, not long after it was broadcast in China that year, Japan's NHK TV station crossed the ocean, bought the copyright at a price of 15,000 US dollars per episode, and also used it for post-production such as Japanese dubbing at a cost of 10,000 US dollars per episode, which was broadcast in Japan in April 1995 and twice in 3 years at the request of the audience. Last year, Guan Yu's actor Lu Shuming passed away, and many netizens chose to post condolences on the daily push.
In 1985, the inaugural issue of "Wish" magazine compiled a special issue of "Three Kingdoms: A Treasury of Business", and some scholars in the special edition proposed that Matsushita Konosuke made Matsushita Electric a large enterprise precisely because of Zhuge Liang's strategy and tactics. Shosuke Tachima, a professor at Keio University, compiled a bibliography of Mikuni studies, and in the eight years from 1979 to 1987, he published as many as 18 monographs on Mikuni economics and management.
In fact, Japan's comprehensive academic research on the three countries has not stopped, Shintaro Ito, a professor of the Department of Chinese at Nimatsu Gakusha University in Japan, publishes the "Catalogue of Japanese "Three Kingdoms" Research Papers every year, the statistical scope includes various monographs and papers, up to 2019 a total of 91, the most recent is 2021, in the two consecutive years of online seminars, the number is far less than before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, there are still 46 articles.
As we all know, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is also known as "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Hunan Wenshan directly translated the title of the book as "Popular Three Kingdoms". The influence of this translation lasted for at least two or three hundred years, and when the trend of translating Mao Zonggangben arose in Japan, only a few editions would be translated into the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the "Three Kingdoms" was thus fixed as a common title for history books and novels, and expanded to refer to the entire Three Kingdoms theme.
In addition to the verifiable historical context, Japan's love for the three countries may have some deeper cultural reasons.
The similarity of the characters of the Three Kingdoms and the Sengoku of Japan
In fact, historically, the time span of these two periods is very similar, and the elements such as chasing the deer, the art of war, and the generals are also similar, and more importantly, many historical figures can even do one-to-one correspondence, so the Japanese public is easy to accept.
Oda Nobunaga entrenched in Kyoto, Cao Cao, who "took the Son of Heaven to order the princes", Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who started from scratch and failed to conquer enemy countries, and Liu Bei, who was known as the "god of war", Uesugi Kenshin, who is easily reminiscent of the martial saint Guan Yu... Of course, the Three Kingdoms are also ancient to the Warring States, and some Warring States figures were originally called the Three Foreign Names during their active period, such as Takenaka Hanbei known as "Ima-Kongming", Hondo Tadashatsu was Zhang Fei of Japan, and so on.
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