Ya Boy Kongming! (Season 1)

A legendary Chinese war strategist dies on the battlefield of the Three Kingdoms era and wakes up in a Tokyo nightclub. That's the hook of Ya Boy Kongming! (2022), a Japanese fantasy comedy anime you can watch online on iFILM.

Kongming understands nothing about the modern world, yet he reads people perfectly. At the club he meets Eiko, an aspiring singer with a huge voice and zero audience. The master tactician adopts a new campaign: producers, labels and streaming charts replace rival generals, and battlefield ruses become marketing moves to push her career. Kaede Hondo voices Eiko, with Ryotaro Okiayu as Kongming.

The whole joke rides on one clean contrast — a man who outwitted warlords two thousand years ago now storms the music industry with the exact same tricks. Light, musical and smarter than it has any right to be. Stream Ya Boy Kongming! (2022) online on iFILM.