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    • LegendarySSJ4
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      Adapts the famous light novel, Romance of the Three Kingdom, looks at the Late Eastern Han dynasty - Three Kingdom era. I've seen Deadwood, Rome, Band of Brothers and various other Asian historical series, though Three kingdom is by far my favourite historical drama series.

      95 epic series.

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        If I had the time to watch another subtitled series right now, I'd be all over this.

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          Is this the accurate adaptation of the novel? If so then i'll definitely be checking this out.

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            @HeartOfDarkness:

            Is this the accurate adaptation of the novel? If so then i'll definitely be checking this out.

            For the most part, yes. It starts after the Yellow Turban rebellion instead of before and it does omit a few things, or expands upon them, but I would say the overall plot is faithful.

            Also, Chen Jianbin as Cao Cao is the definite star here.

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              I don't know anything about Three Kingdom in any way so what you are saying is literally flying over my head lol. But it's good to hear that it's faithful adaptation since i can't read Chinese and there aren't that many series that ultimately become a faithful adaptation or so from what i have heard.

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              • LegendarySSJ4
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                In case you were wondering… Cao Cao is my current avatar.

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                  Also, for those interested, the team who made this also made a series about the conflict between the Chu and Han states at the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, that's also quite good, but it seems that there's no concrete subs for that series as there is for TK. A pity.

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                    @S.C.:

                    Also, for those interested, the team who made this also made a series about the conflict between the Chu and Han states at the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, that's also quite good, but it seems that there's no concrete subs for that series as there is for TK. A pity.

                    I've heard many bad things about that series. Also Jiang Hu are subbing 'All men are brother's series, another adaptation of one of the four famous novels.

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                    @HeartOfDarkness:

                    I don't know anything about Three Kingdom in any way so what you are saying is literally flying over my head lol. But it's good to hear that it's faithful adaptation since i can't read Chinese and there aren't that many series that ultimately become a faithful adaptation or so from what i have heard.

                    It's amazing and among my top 2 favourite along with the series in my signature.

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                      Wonder who is playing my husbando ZhuGeLiang (Kong Ming).

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                        @le:

                        Wonder who is playing my husbando ZhuGeLiang (Kong Ming).

                        He is played by Lu Yi.

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                          I, like many people, got dragged into being interested in the Three ingdoms thanks to Dynasty Warriors. Now thanks to a decade and a half of that its randomly one of the historical periods I know best. Weird.

                          I tried reading the books before but they were a bit dense on the character count for me.

                          @HeartOfDarkness:

                          But it's good to hear that it's faithful adaptation since i can't read Chinese

                          There are English translations.

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                            Jiang Hu subs are excellent, the best i've seen.

                            As Amigo mentioned, some parts have been omitted while other things have been expanded upon.

                            I'm currently rewatching it at the moment?

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                              @Robby:

                              I, like many people, got dragged into being interested in the Three ingdoms thanks to Dynasty Warriors. Now thanks to a decade and a half of that its randomly one of the historical periods I know best. Weird.

                              I tried reading the books before but they were a bit dense on the character count for me.

                              There are English translations.

                              Fan translation or official translations? I tried looking for it in my local library and couldn't find i.

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                                @HeartOfDarkness:

                                Fan translation or official translations? I tried looking for it in my local library and couldn't find i.

                                Official published translations. Just do a search on Amazon for "three Kingdoms" and it should pop up immediately. It'll be a three or four volumes set depending. There's at least three different translations, one of which was just done in 2014… I have no idea what the quality of the new one is.

                                It's a bit of a niche thing, a library not having it isn't surprising.

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                                  I've watched it all a few years ago, easily my favorite adaption of the books, and one of the best tv series overall.

                                  Fun fact, i've worked together Lu Yi (who plays Zhuge Liang)

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                                    @Solid:

                                    I've watched it all a few years ago, easily my favorite adaption of the books, and one of the best tv series overall.

                                    Fun fact, i've worked together Lu Yi (who plays Zhuge Liang)

                                    That's pretty awesome to hear Solid!

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                                      All of my knowledge of the 3 Kingdoms does indeed come from the Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi game series which maybe definitely isn't accurate but definitely interesting.

                                      I need a new series to watch so I'll give this a go.

                                      Everything's Eventual…

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                                        Dynasty Warriors is actually pretty accurate, albeit incomplete, as far as the main characters and major campaigns go, if you actually read all the supplemental material they provide. Well, except for all the women on the battlefield, obviously.

                                        Orochi… not so much.

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                                          You're telling me a serpent king didn't create a rift in time and space to test the might of warriors from 2 separate eras spaced 1,000 years apart in history? The Three Kingdoms era of China and the Warring States period of Japan?

                                          Everything I know about history is a lie.

                                          Everything's Eventual…

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                                            @Outerspec:

                                            You're telling me a serpent king didn't create a rift in time and space to test the might of warriors from 2 separate eras spaced 1,000 years apart in history? The Three Kingdoms era of China and the Warring States period of Japan?

                                            Everything I know about history is a lie.

                                            Yeah sometimes historians get a few facts wrong. I was shocked to learn that Gandhi wasn't a pronuclear backstabber, myself.

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                                              @Outerspec:

                                              You're telling me a serpent king didn't create a rift in time and space to test the might of warriors from 2 separate eras spaced 1,000 years apart in history? The Three Kingdoms era of China and the Warring States period of Japan?

                                              Everything I know about history is a lie.

                                              Oh no, that happened.

                                              I just meant they got the design on Orochi's armor wrong.

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                                                The relationship between Liu Bei and CAO CAO is quite similar to the one that Yang and Reinhard had from Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The deep respect and anger both characters had at the same time, wouldn't be surprised if Tanaka was influenced by the historical novel (he did base his series on historical moments throughout the series). I did wish we spent more time on Sun Ce and Yuan Shao (the fatuous lord) however for example.

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