List of Sōten Kōro chapters

The Japanese manga series Sōten Kōro is written by King Gonta (王欣太), and adapted from an original story by Hagin Yi (李學仁). It has been serialized in the seinen manga magazine Weekly Morning by Kodansha from October 1994 to November 2005. Sōten Kōro's story is based loosely on the events taking place in Three Kingdoms period of China during the life of the last Chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao (155 – March 15, 220), who also serves as the main character. A consistent theme throughout the story is Cao Cao’s perpetual desire to break China and its people away from its old systems and ways of thinking and initiate a focus on pragmatism over empty ideals. This often puts him at odds with the prevalent customs and notions of Confucianism and those that support them. In 1998, manga won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award in the general category.

Total 409 individual chapters have been collected in 36 tankōbon and are released by Kodansha. The first volume of Sōten Kōro was released on October 23, 1995 and last thirty-sixth volume was released on January 23, 2006. It has been also collected in 18 bunkoban (文庫版) from December 12, 2000 to December 12, 2006 and 12 Gokuatsuban Sōten Kōro (極厚 蒼天航路) with English title "Beyond the heavens" from May 5, 2009 to October 23, 2009.

The manga series has also adopted into an anime series by anime studio Madhouse in 2009. Total 26 episodes are aired From April 7, 2009 to September 30, 2009 by television network NTV.

Volume list

No.	Release date	ISBN
01	October 23, 1995	978-4-06-328434-8
02	October 23, 1995	978-4-06-328435-5
03	January 23, 1996	978-4-06-328447-8
04	April 23, 1996	978-4-06-328461-4
05	September 20, 1996	978-4-06-328482-9
06	January 23, 1997	978-4-06-328495-9
07	April 23, 1997	978-4-06-328510-9
08	June 23, 1997	978-4-06-328518-5
09	August 22, 1997	978-4-06-328534-5
10	November 21, 1997	978-4-06-328548-2
11	January 23, 1998	978-4-06-328555-0
12	April 23, 1998	978-4-06-328570-3
13	July 23, 1998	978-4-06-328586-4
14	October 22, 1998	978-4-06-328602-1
15	January 22, 1999	978-4-06-328613-7
16	May 21, 1999	978-4-06-328629-8
17	September 22, 1999	978-4-06-328646-5
18	December 16, 1999	978-4-06-328664-9
19	March 23, 2000	978-4-06-328679-3
20	June 22, 2000	978-4-06-328695-3
21	December 22, 2000	978-4-06-328716-5
22	April 23, 2001	978-4-06-328745-5
23	September 21, 2001	978-4-06-328766-0
24	December 21, 2001	978-4-06-328794-3
25	June 21, 2002	978-4-06-328822-3
26	October 23, 2002	978-4-06-328846-9
27	March 20, 2003	978-4-06-328878-0
28	July 23, 2003	978-4-06-328894-0
29	October 23, 2003	978-4-06-328908-4
30	February 23, 2004	978-4-06-328930-5
31	May 21, 2004	978-4-06-328955-8
32	August 23, 2004	978-4-06-328978-7
33	February 23, 2005	978-4-06-372414-1
34	July 22, 2005	978-4-06-372456-1
35	January 23, 2006	978-4-06-372481-3
36	January 23, 2006	978-4-06-372494-3