Ya Boy Kongming!
Fate and reincarnation deliver brilliant military strategist, Kongming, from warring, ancient China to Japan’s modern party hot spot in Shibuya City, Tokyo. After a lifetime of battles and military skirmishes, Kongming wished with his last breath to be reborn in a world of peace and prosperity. It’s nearly two millennia later and he’s finding his way in a very different world than that of his past life. When he meets Eiko, an amateur musician with big dreams, the unlikely duo strikes up an even unlikelier friendship. Eiko has street smarts to help Kongming navigate this strange new world, and Kongming will use his strategic mind to help Eiko achieve stardom! (Source: Sentai Filmworks) An advanced online screening of the first episode was held on March 31, 2022, but the weekly TV release began on April 5, 2022.
Episodes
E1 - Kongming Descends Upon Shibuya
Did his dying wish transport Kongming to heaven or hell? He only know one thing for sure: The girl dressed as a devil has the voice of an angel!
E2 - Kongming Uses a Stratagem
When a rival singer resorts to dirty tactics to get ahead, it’s up to Kongming to revive a mysterious, ancient strategy and bring about a decisive victory for EIKO!
E3 - Kongming Learns of the Right Path to Take
Who is Kongming, really? Kobayashi is starting to think the strange man’s previous victory was a fluke. Only the REAL Kongming could create something from nothing... right?
E4 - Kongming Lights the Way
The enigmatic Kongming’s latest stratagem leaves Eiko feeling off-beat. After a night of carefully plotted partying in Roppongi, can the pair find their rhythm again?
E5 - Kongming Busts a Rhyme
Kabetaijin, an unrivaled freestyle rapper, quit the scene and fled into the shadows, but there is no foxhole deep enough to hide him from Kongming!
E6 - Kongming`s Freestyle
Past and present collide when Kongming and Kabe face off in the most epic rap battle in history! Who will drop superior bars and walk away victorious?
E7 - Plan for Peace Throughout the World, Vol. 1
Eiko must impress an important music producer, but finding your voice is no easy tactical feat. Perhaps she’ll find a comrade in arms on the streets of Shibuya…
E8 - Searching for Oneself
Eiko and Kabe are missing something — something others have but they don't. Under Kongming's watchful eye, each strikes out on a mission to discover what that something is.
E9 - For the Populace
Eiko and Nanami have struck an alliance, but opposing forces conspire to break them apart. Can they endure the enemy salvo, or will their truce collapse under the onslaught?
E10 - Dreamer
While Kabe engages an old rival in a rematch, Eiko marches headlong into battle against her own inner adversary, and Kongming recalls peaceful days past.
E11 - Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats
The climactic final battle is upon us! With Summer Sonia on the line, Kongming must devise the ultimate stratagem to bring about total victory and secure 100,000 likes.
E12 - Eiko`s Song
It all comes down Kongming’s final gambit. Eiko will take to the stage in a direct confrontation with her friend-turned-rival, but will Nanami hear the song in Eiko’s heart?
