Ya Boy Kongming!

A manga about how famed strategist of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming, is reborn and sent from ancient China to modern day Japan where he helps a young singer become successful.

This is one of those collaboration ideas for manga that you get in a lot of the commercial manga from Kodansha but I’m all for this one. I love the Three Kingdoms and taking Kongming into modern Japan hilarious, dumb, and fun. There’s actually a really nice platonic relationship between Kongming and the struggling young singer Eiko. Watching Kongming reutilized his genius strategies to help Eiko succeed is just ridiculous enough to be entertaining.

Also huge props to whoever came up with the English title. Perfectly captures the mood of the Japanese title Paripi Koumei!

Available in English from Kodansha.

~dakazu