Based on the Tezuka Award-winning manga, when servant boys, Piao and Xin, set out to become the world’s greatest generals they find themselves caught up in a violent struggle between two noblemen plotting to overthrow the king.
EPISODE 1
The Boy with No Name
Orphan and small-town servant Piao is unexpectedly invited to work at the Royal Court. Some months later, he returns to his village mortally wounded and, before he dies, sends his friend Xin off to a dangerous village, where Xin has a shocking encounter.
EPISODE 2
An Encounter with Destiny
Xin discovers Ying Zheng, the young King of Qin, who's fleeing his half-brother's uprising. But when Piao's killer arrives to murder Ying Zheng, Xin, who's learned that Piao died serving as Zheng's stand-in, must decide which to help and which to kill.
EPISODE 3
For a Friend
Xin and Zheng, the King, entrust their escape to young Diao, who knows a secret way out of Heibei Village. Xin still blames Zheng for Piao's death, and even as this simmering conflict boils over, a new and deadly pursuer takes up the chase.
EPISODE 4
The King and the Sword
Fleeing pursuit, Zheng and Xin struggle with exhaustion, and with each other. When they reach the appointed meeting-site, there's no sign of Zheng's sole supporter, Lord Changwen . . . and the murderous tracker Mu Ta is hot on their trail.
EPISODE 5
Unbroken Heart
Xin, who's vowed in the name of his own ambitions to help the King, must singlehandedly face the treacherous assassin Mu Ta. Meanwhile, General Wang Yi brings a piece of tribute to the Court that seems to spell the end for all young King Zheng's hopes.
EPISODE 6
The Path to Becoming a General
Xin hears a tale of Piao's heroism during Wang Yi's ambush, but he also learns that King Zheng has even fewer allies than he'd been told. With little time left to forestall a civil war, Zheng decides on a dangerous path, to seek out unlikely allies.
Masakazu Morita
Jun Fukuyama
Rie Kugimiya
Yutaka Nakano
Kouji Yusa
Yoko Hikasa
Jun Kamiya
Kenichi Imaizumi
Akira Iwanaga
Yasuhisa Hara
