With over thirty volumes of the manga published so far and still going on, Yasuhisa Hara has created more than enough material for a lot of anime episodes to produced. The first season began in 2012 and finished in 2013 after thirty eight episodes which were simulcast by FUNimation. The second season began in the summer of 2013 and wasn’t picked up for simulcast, nor was the first season licensed for home video release, making it clear that while the show is doing well in Japan, it just didn’t succeed. Now the expected word has come down via the latest issue of V Jump magazine in Japan that the 39th episode will also be the end of the second season of the series, which will be on March 1st, 2014. With seventy-seven episodes total, it’s an impressive number of episodes and the potential is definitely there for another season depending on how everything else shakes down on the behind the scenes side of t production.
Plot concept: In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi.
[Source: ANN]