The Legend of the Leopard King

"The Legend of the Leopard King" is a novel written by Kurimoto Kaoru. The work tells the story of people's life and death in an imaginary world and era with the protagonist Guin as the center. The work describes wars, strategies, rise and fall between countries, as well as the desires, love, friendship, hatred, etc. of people in the market. It is a historical masterpiece. Since the first volume of the novel "Leopard Head Mask" was released in September 1979, 123 volumes of the main story and 21 volumes of side stories have been released by December 2008. The total number of copies has exceeded 28 million, and has been supported by many readers. The novel was released in English in 2003, and was later translated into German, Thai, Russian, French and other languages. Chinese and Korean versions will be released in the future. The novel was also adapted into the first manga "Seven Magicians" by Kazaki Yanagisawa in 2000. This is the first animation of the novel. The animated version is produced by Satelight, supervised by Atsushi Wakabayashi (representative works: "Yu Yu Hakusho", "Naruto"), the series composition is scripted by Masaji Yonemura (representative works: "Pokemon" series, "Hanada Shonen"), character design is by Shunji Murata (representative work: "Mobile Police" movie version), and the music is Nobuo Uematsu, the royal composer of the RPG masterpiece "Final Fantasy" series. story