About This Site

“マニアなヒロトの三国志” is a reading site that unpacks the story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms episode by episode — by stratagem, by person, and by battle. Each article lets you read a whole episode in both comic panels (panel images) and text.

Reading the Romance and the Records Separately

The Three Kingdoms has two great currents: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written as a story, and Records of the Three Kingdoms (Chen Shou's history), the historical record. Not a few of its dramatic stratagems are scenes the Romance created. On this site, where each source story comes from is clearly stated in each article's “Sources and Basis,” and the Romance's inventions are introduced as belonging to the Romance, while matters found in the historical record are introduced as belonging to the Records — kept distinct.

Your Guide, Hiroto

The site's guide is “Hiroto,” a character in the dress of a strategist holding a white feather fan. He is also the icon of the YouTube channel “マニアなヒロトの三国志.”

The Reading Companion to a Video Channel

This site is made as the reading companion to the YouTube channel “マニアなヒロトの三国志.” Articles are based on video scripts, and an article may be published before its video. Articles whose videos have been published also carry the video within the article.

The speech-bubble lines in the comic have been polished or created within a range that does not change the meaning of the scenes in the Romance. Matters of fact, such as events and numbers, are conveyed in the text exactly as they stand in the source text.