What it has:
-Failures, the main character fails and recovers.
-Inspiring people, generals that inspire you to follow their path and to be at their level.
-War, the entire manga is about war and only ceases war on the battlefield to move to the war in the government, a battle among governing powers for who gains control.
-Women, although not many the few that exist are very relevant to the entire story.
-Strategy, this series has some major battle strategies and shows the importance of the strategies within an army.
-Real life struggle. The struggle of becoming like the role models we worship is one that everyone goes through in life.
-Team work. There is no teamwork like the one in kingdom, everyone has a major role and usually thousands of warriors are involved in each battle.
What it doesn't have:
-No superpowers, a historical manga with some level of realism.
-No focus on love stories, while love is a factor throughout the manga it does not focus on any specific love stories with the main character. The love story has not yet being fully developed but there are certain hints throughout.
-No western-hero like good guys. In the manga the main characters have set out to conquer all of china so while they feel their cause is just, it is not necessarily a good one from all points of view.
-Perfect historical accuracy. While it is heavily based on the history of china it is still a fictional story that has its own events that were not part of history. Many of the characters do not correspond to the historical characters.
