She is surrounded by those who are obsessed with playing.

Anime shion no ou. Shion no ou is the story of a young girl named shion yasuoka. The murderer sat down with her and challenged her to a game of shougi after telling her that if she wanted to stay alive she should forget how to speak and forget what happened that night. Shion s parents were brutally murdered in front of her when she was 5 years old. Now shion adopted by a shogi master is about to enter her first national level tournament and eventually learn all the secrets behind her parents murder.

A video game for the nintendo ds was released on april 10 2008 by mainichi communications. Although a mute shion s inner monologues add tension to each of the shogi matches whilst also giving an insight into her inner struggle to come to terms with a bloody past. It is published by kodansha in the seinen manga magazine monthly afternoon and is collected in eight bound 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.

Shion no ō subtitled the flowers of hard blood is a japanese manga series written by masaru katori and illustrated by jiro ando. In shion no ou there is a female lead character who is working to improve and strengthen her game of shougi. Shion no ou follows the story of yasuoka shion a 13 year old shougi player with a past of tragedy. Like hikaru shion also has many obstacles to overcome not the least of which is a murder mystery of which she is the center.

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