12/14/2023 0 Comments Voice of shion no.6Sachiko Yasuoka ( 安岡 幸子, Yasuoka Sachiko) Voiced by: Mariko Kouda} Sachiko is Shion's foster mother. Shinji Yasuoka ( 安岡 信次, Yasuoka Shinji ) Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto Shinji is Shion's foster father and is a professional shogi player. She deeply seeks recognition from Makoto, who she looks up to. As befitting the daughter of a high-class family, her type of shougi is usually dignified. She is eighteen years old, and a fan of Shion. Saori Nikaidō ( 二階堂 沙織, Nikaidō Saori ) Voiced by: Risa Mizuno Saori is a female shogi player and apprentice to Makoto. When he plays against Satoru, Meijin's younger brother, he reveals that his father was once a shogi player. Many people often tease him about being Shion's boyfriend, causing him to become embarrassed. Progressively through the series, he seems to care very much about Shion, saying that he wants to protect her. In the anime, after episode sixteen, he plays as a boy. When playing shogi, he pretends to be a girl in order to earn money for competing due to the male league taking two years to qualify. Due to his sickly mother, he had to leave high school to take care of her and pay for her hospital bills. Ayumi Saitō ( 斉藤 歩, Saitō Ayumi ) Voiced by: Romi Park Ayumi is a fifteen-year-old male shogi player. His girlfriend was working with Shion's dead parents, and mysteriously died one day after them. Aside from that, he is also a gifted shogi player himself, who dreams to one day defeat his brother in an official match. Satoru Hani ( 羽仁 悟, Hani Satoru) Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze Satoru is Makoto's younger brother and works as a businessman. He was defeated in a match by Shion and arrested immediately afterwards, but not before remarking that Shion had the "eyes of a pro". It is revealed near the end of the series that he is the one that killed Shion's parents, because he was interested in seeing what kind of professional Shogi player Shion would become, but this caused conflict with her father, who did not want his daughter to play professional Shogi. A keen and perceptive man who abandoned his brother after their mother's death to become a professional player himself. Makoto Hani ( 羽仁 真, Hani Makoto) Voiced by: Hozumi Gōda Makoto is a professional shogi player and is referred to by many as Meijin ( 名人), the highest and most prestigious professional shogi rank in Japan (similar to a World Chess Champion). Throughout the series, she only talks through internal monologue until the final episode where she regains her voice and is able to speak. Due to her foster father's influence, Shion eventually starts to play shogi which she hopes will give her clues about the murder of her parents. She loves sweets, though chocolate is her favorite. When the story begins, Shion is thirteen and is in junior-high school. At the murder scene, Shion found a king shogi piece and later comes to suspect that the culprit plays the game. To communicate, she writes down everything on a notepad. Shion, being a young girl at the time, was traumatized by bearing witness to the aftermath and since then has been mute. When she was five years old, Shion's parents were slaughtered in their own home, though the murderer was never found. After being adopted by her neighbors, the Yasuoka family (where the husband is also a shogi player), Shion takes up the game herself, both for the love of the game and to possibly learn of the person who had killed her parents.Ĭharacters Shion Yasuoka ( 安岡 紫音, Yasuoka Shion) Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi Shion Yasuoka, formerly Shion Ishiwatari ( 石渡 紫音, Ishiwatari Shion) before adoption, is the main protagonist of the story. The shock of the tragic incident renders Shion unable to speak, forcing her to communicate by writing on a note pad. This leads her to believe that the murderer may be a shogi player. At the time of the murder, the killer takes the king piece from her father's shogi board (a Japanese strategy board game similar to chess). Shion no Ō centers around a young junior-high school girl named Shion Yasuoka who had witnessed the murder of her parents as a small child. A video game for the Nintendo DS was released on April 10, 2008, by Mainichi Communications. It has been adapted as a twenty-two episode anime television series by Studio Deen, which aired in Japan between October 2007 and March 2008. It is published by Kodansha in the seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon, and is collected in eight bound volumes. Shion's King), subtitled The Flowers of Hard Blood, is a Japanese manga series written by Masaru Katori and illustrated by Jiro Ando.
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