Seven episodes. Six years. A cast drawn from five different Mitsuteru Yokoyama manga series — Water Margin, Babel II, Sangokushi, Akakage, the original Giant Robo — collapsed into one world by director Yasuhiro Imagawa and scored by Masamichi Amano with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
What do you get when a director who thinks like a stage director takes every character from every manga one writer ever made and puts them in the same apocalypse?
Seven episodes across six years. The first aired in 1992. The last in 1997. Yasuhiro Imagawa spent that time constructing one of the most ambitious anime productions of the decade from a premise that should not have worked: take every character Mitsuteru Yokoyama ever drew in any manga — Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Babel II, the original Giant Robo, Akakage — put them all in the same world, and ask what happens when that world faces an apocalypse.
It worked. The cards in this feature document how.
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