Introduction
Hello! Many of you know me as King Magax from the Kingdom section of the mangafox forums. I mainly do summaries on the latest Kingdom chapters based on Chinese translations as well as research and translate historical information on the Era of the Warring states that Kingdom is based on.
If you are a fan of the Kingdom manga like me, which is most probably why you are here, feel free to explore this site and learn more! Do note that you might encounter historical spoilers for Kingdom around this site.
Here are some pages on this site I would recommend:
- Kingdom-pedia: Historical facts on Kingdom characters and storyline (SPOILERS)
- Kingdom Guidebook 2: The second official Kingdom guidebook
- Kingdom Guidebook 3: The third and latest Kingdom guidebook. (Working in progress)
- An Investigation of Qin General, Li Xin: A translation of an academic journal article on Kingdom’s main character in China’s history (SPOILERS)
- Timeline of Kingdom Events: A timeline of events from the first year Ei Sei/Ying Zheng became king up till unification of China. Useful for comparing with the manga events and predicting future events. (SPOILERS)
- Kingdom one-shots: Two of the one-shots done by Hara-sensei on the background stories of three of Kingdom’s characters. (SPOILERS)
- Misc. Kingdom Stuff : Everything else about Kingdom you might not know of. Including interviews with Hara-sensei, promotional works, random facts etc.
If you have anything to tell me, including feedbacks, fixing dead links, updating of information or pretty much anything at all, feel free to drop a comment or type it in the chat on the right sidebar!
Updates:
14 December 21
– Geographical locations translated to Chinese pinyin from Ch703 for reference of the locations of important castles for future Zhao wars available here. Will update it in the Ousen/Kanki, Shin and Kyokai pages too.
2 August 21
– Quick update. My PC is down. Updates will be slower/delayed till mid August when i get a new one. Translation is still being done in the back end though.
25 July 21
-Started my work on Kingdom Guidebook 3. Will be updating it for next weeks and months.
20 July 21
-Just received by Guidebook today! I will be posting the contents over the next few weeks but it will probably take months to finish the entire book since I am usually busy. I have compiled the stats from the new guidebook in a google spreadsheet here for now.
I hope you’re well and more updates will come soon
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Hey Magax, first and foremost how have you been in these chaotic times?
I would like to ask you, do you know if what is written on this site is historically true or not:
https://www.chinafetching.com/wang-jian
Thank you in advance and I wish you all the best.
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Fortunately I am doing ok with at least a stable income and a healthy body despite the chaos around the world.
The article seems largely true except the following:
– I don’t think Wang Jian’s origin was mentioned anywhere. I could be wrong but his first appearance was his victory at Ye (Gyou). The paragraph about his early life and assisting the Qin king and Fan Ju was not recorded in Shiji and I would be happy to read the sources about this
-We have little to no info about Wang Jian and Wang Ben post-unification. Last I know is that Wang Jian and Meng Wu went south to fight the southern barbarian tribes. They could have resigned or may have just been forgotten in history due to the lack of wars. We do know that Wang Jian’s grandson Wang Li was defeated by the rebel army near the end of the Qin dynasty.
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Hey Magax, how you’ve been?
Its Ascot from TMF, anyway the forum is still down so I wonder if you know of any alternative for me to follow the releases and discussions like another forum or discord server.
Thanks anyway, great job as always!
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Hey Ascot, I do lurk around Kingdom’s subreddit(https://www.reddit.com/r/Kingdom/). Quite a number of discussion there daily. You can also find the link to the discord server there(https://discord.gg/Kingdom). I am not an active discord user in general so I did not join the Kingdom discord. I am sure you will find many Kingdom fans over there!
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thanks man.
Its been rough, between the breaks and the forum down I actually forgot the last 2 chapters lol.
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It’s a good excuse to go back for a reread :P. In fact i recently finished the Gyou arc all the way from the beginning of the arc. Feels real good to finish an arc from the beginning to end in 3 days instead of reading the weekly chapters
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Hi again my friend.
I found my TMF people in narutoforums, come join us if you feel like it 😁. specially now that the past chapters have been lit 👍
Also I read something about new movies, got any info?
https://mobile.twitter.com/yamazakikentojp/status/1314078542485950470
See ya
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Sure, I will join and lurk around there when i have time! I haven’t seen any news about the movie beyond Part 2 so if that news is legit it would be really big
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Do you know more about Qin and Wei vs Chu in 235? Ive read online that Chu won and that Qin was lead by general Xin Wu (no idea who it is)?
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I know about Qin-Wei war against Chu but I dont think there is any record of who won the war. Xin Wu’s name is only recorded in a book that was discovered recently in a dig site. I doubt Hara will pick up this name since there may not even be Japanese translation of that book. There were no record of Xin Wu’s name in the other major records like Zhan Guo Ce or Shi Ji
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Well, I guess that will give Hara some creative freedom.
Thanks!
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Is millennium forum down?
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Yeah. Not the first time it happens. Might come back soon. Maybe.
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Yeah, i guess they forgot to pay for the hosting again. Anyway, 644 spoilers are out on reddit.
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