Shion no Ō

Shion no Ō
Shion no Ō logo.
しおんの王 ('Shion no Ō manga volume 1.)
Genre	Mystery
Manga
Written by	Masaru Katori
Illustrated by	Jiro Ando
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Afternoon
Original run	May 2004 – June 2008
Volumes	8
Anime television series
Directed by	Toshifumi Kawase
Studio	Studio Deen
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	October 13, 2007 – March 22, 2008
Episodes	22
Game
Publisher	Mainichi Communications
Genre	Adventure, shogi
Platform	Nintendo DS
Released	April 10, 2008

Shion no Ō (しおんの王^?, lit. Shion's King), subtitled The Flowers of Hard Blood, is a Japanese mystery manga written by Masaru Katori and illustrated by Jiro Ando. It is published by Kodansha in the seinen manga magazine 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. A video game for the Nintendo DS was released on April 10, 2008 by Mainichi Communications.

Shion no Ō centers around a young junior-high school girl named Shion Yasuoka who witnesses the murder of her parents as a child. At the time of the murder, the killer takes the king piece from her father's shogi board (a Japanese strategy board game similar to chess). This leads her to believe that the murderer may be a shogi player. The shock of the incident renders Shion unable to speak, forcing her to communicate by writing on a pad. After being adopted by her neighbors, the Yasuoka family (where the husband is also a shogi player), Shion takes up the game herself, both for the love of the game and to possibly learn who killed her parents.

The manga of Shion no Ō is written by Masaru Katori and illustrated by Jiro Ando. It was serialized between the May 2004 and June 2008 issues of the Japanese seinen manga magazine Afternoon published by Kodansha. Eight bound volumes were published in Japan.

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