Shion no Ou
 

しおんの王 - The Flowers of Hard Blood
Shion no Ou - The Flowers of Hard Blood

Based on a seinen manga.

Based on a manga thats serialized in the seinen manga magazine Afternoon.
For now there are 5 volumes released of this manga.
Covers:



Mangaka: Andou Shirou & Katori Masaru

From Hanashi group:

Genre: Seinen, Drama, Sport

Hikaru no Go, with a female protagonist and a mystery theme behind it? :D

Now THAT sounds like a good premise! :p

Yes and no. The story isn't like HnG where it brings you along from the beginning. This one drops you right in after she has already been playing for a while.

That's a little disappointing, but I'll look forward to this all the same. I do like Shougi, and a good drama/mystery. As long as they manage the sport theme well enough (a genre I usually dislike; HnG and Yakitate Japan were the only 'sporty' series I've liked in the past =p) it should be good.

Manga was decent (or at least what's been scanlated so far).

Just read the manga. The manga is interesting and exciting. The artwork is good also. There's going to be a anime right? Wonder when it will be aired?

Sometime in autumn 2007, but other than that there's no specific broadcast date announced yet.

New info from MOON PHASE's anime list:

Supervisor: Kawase Toshifumi
Composition: Yamada Takashi
Character design: Numata Seiya
Art director: Mukumoto Yutaka

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The premise looks really awesome.

An official site for Shion no Ou anime has opened:
http://www.shion-oh.com/

Broadcast: October 13, 2007

Oh hey! Studio DEEN's producing it! Yay for the production company of Higurashi and Shounen Onmyouji! Woo! Yeah, ANN has proof of this.

Looking forward to this. I'm not that excited about Fall, but this is definitely on my watch list. :D

Fall will be one a party of happiness :heh: I'll be looking to this series :3

The cast has been announced. Hang onto your hats:

Kawasumi Ayako @ Yasuoka Shion
Paku, Romi @ Saitō Ayumi
Mizuno, Risa (Lia de Beaumont in Chevalier,etc.) @ Nikaidō Saori

I was very happy when I read about Kawasumi Ayako for the lead female character... but after that I thought that Shion...

Well I'll be looking forward to this series as i loved Hikaru no Go, and I always thought that these kind of sports anime would be lame, stupid me

I've come across a few scanslated chapters in the past and the series looks promising. It's a hell of a lot more serious than the typical sports-based story (heck, how many of them start by mentioning the murder of the protagonists parents?).

Although my knowledge of shougi is nil, the characters were interesting and realistic enough to keep my attention. This is also the only story that I know of wherein one of the characters

not a fan of sport anime but the VA cast looks great. >.> watching it for them.

Oh cool! The seiyuu for Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club) is in this series! Now I wanna watch it more than ever!