Shion no Ō

Shion no Ō
Shion no Ō manga volume 1.
しおんの王
Genre
Manga
Written byMasaru Katori
Illustrated byJiro Ando
Published byKodansha
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
Original runMarch 25, 2004April 25, 2008
Volumes8
Anime television series
Directed byToshifumi Kawase
StudioStudio Deen
Original networkFuji TV
Original run October 14, 2007 March 23, 2008
Episodes22
Video game
PublisherMainichi Communications
GenreAdventure, shogi
PlatformNintendo DS
ReleasedApril 10, 2008

Shion no Ō (Japanese: しおんの王; lit.'Shion's King'), subtitled The Flowers of Hard Blood, is a Japanese manga series written by Masaru Katori and illustrated by Jiro Ando. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from March 2004 to April 2008, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. 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. A video game for the Nintendo DS was released on April 10, 2008, by Mainichi Communications.