3-gatsu no Lion
Alt Names: | 3月のライオン March Comes in Like a Lion Sangatsu no Lion Un marzo da leoni Мартовский лев |
Author: | Umino Chica |
Artist: | Umino Chica |
Genres: | Award Winning Comedy Drama Romance Seinen Slice of Life Sports |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Ongoing |
Description: | Kiriyama Rei is a 17 year old professional shogi player and very good at it, but in real life, he has nothing. Quiet and not very social, Rei has no family, no friends, and he doesn't go to school. He is acquainted with a neighboring woman named Akari who is single-handedly raising her two younger sisters, Momo and Hinata. This is a slice-of-life-ish seinen manga, with strong monologues and reflections by Rei. Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award (2009) and the 4th Manga Taisho Award (2011). Winner of the 35th Kodansha Manga Awards for Best General Manga with Uchuu Kyoudai |
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614 Comments
Finally caught up on this masterpiece once again
Shimada and Rei's former homeroom teacher.. One of them are going to end up with Akari!
But honestly, I prefer Shimada
The first season of the anime ended yesterday at 22 episodes. The second season is announced for October.
Nodame Cantabile's brilliant success in the 2000's set in a minor (?) classical music boom in Japan; assuming 3-gatsu no Lion is doing the same for Shogi, NHK (where it is aired) surely has a vested interest keeping it going strong as long as possible. As shown in the story itself, Japan's traditional media institutions sponsor the Shogi world, I suspect more out of prestige and tradition than economic gain; NHK itself hosts a major competition, the NHK Cup. Surely they are loving the attention and all the new blood!
This isn't the place to review the anime, but I would like to briefly comment that it is, against my fears, a spectacular and extraordinarily faithful adaptation. SHAFT knew this is a flagship project and gave it their all, and the result is a masterpiece worthy of Umino-sensei's original.
AHHHHH. I am caught up!!! If there was ever a series deserving of the tag "Award Winning," (and the award accompanying) it is definitely this series. Hopefully SHAFT can pump out one or two more seasons. Hot DAMN, I was not prepared for how GOOD this series is!
God. I'm rooting for Shimada so hard, it isn't even funny. That guy stole my heart way back when we first met him, and he took it all over again. He would be GREAT for Akari TTuTT
I just wanna see more of the beautiful Shimada <3
And Nikaidou ;3; He hasn't been appearing as often...
And Souya, too, while we're at it. He's too interesting a character to NOT want to know more.
That last page of the chapter, tho, was super heartwarming.
3good5me
As long as a chapter was requested to be taken down by its publisher, Batoto acquiesced and took them down, regardless of whether or not there are plans to release them official in English. 3lion was one of the series that didn't have a clear reason for their takedown request among the many others that got taken down.
In that case, I'm not sure why it was taken down off of Batoto. But, anyways, n_junj_u, you can find the chapters onine.
They haven't been serialized into English as of yet.
That last chapter (126) was really heartwarming. Hina's incredibly nice friend coming to help; Nikaido San coming to gallant Momo Chan around in his perfect gentleman style; Shimada San showing up to make a perfect get together along with Sensei and Senpai. It was just perfect.
They are on other scanlator sites just type in "Sangatsu no Lion chapter 1" into Google and you'll find it. Additionally, the first 4 volumes have been serialized into English, so you can support the author by buying them!
With every chapter the Rei X Akari ship sinks to the bottom of the abyss.. God Damn It!
There's a 3-gatsu no lion discord chat if anyone's interested : https://discord.gg/uTdyWK4
Given the current narrative, I doubt the point is to have someone to spoil Akari. It's about someone to support her and be there for her.
I think either one of them could do that, possibly.
Also, don't forget that Akari loves to take in, feed, and love sickly things, so she could surely have happiness with being with Shimada.
I personally want Shimada x Akari because I want to see the changes that occur to Shimada when someone is there to look after him(he went through such a tough life and is oftened potrayed as the underdog despite his best efforts). However I don't think that Shimada can properly spoil Akari. Sensei, on the other hand, has lived a more common life? I think that can work from his perspective...
I just want Akari to be happy
Does anyone else get reminded of Hisoka from HxH when they see Namerikawa?
Shhhh... you mustn't ruin the false bliss
but pretty sure they know, just that they needed an excuse to eat more foodlolwhy does it feels like Rei always end up as the third wheel when it's about romance?
Probably because the manga isn't poking fun at him for being mildly sick at the moment. lol