Everyone's favorite 3rd century Chinese battle anime
Adaptations / References
Touhakuden - Maou Reijou kara hajimeru Sangokushi - If you think there's a dire lack of cute Japanese girls in Three Kingdoms
Paripi Koumei - Reverse Isekai about Kongming (Zhuge Liang) using his tactics to survive and thrive in the modern Japanese music industry. Somewhat enjoyable, but very rough in terms of execution and pacing
Quotes
分久必合，合久必分
Opening lines of the novel - puts the splitting and reuinification of China as an almost inevitable natural process
Is it not possible to create stable institutions that last longer than a few generations?
Are modern politicians consciously thinking about this quote when working on Cross Strait Relations?
勿以惡小而為之，勿以善小而不為
Do no evil, no matter how small; Do not refrain from doing good, no matter how small - Liu Bei
食之无味，弃之可惜
Tasteless to eat yet a shame to discard - Cao Cao
Cao Cao was eating a chicken when he decided the army's password to be "chicken rib". The phrase refers to how the rib isn't a good cut of meat but is also too substantial to be simply thrown away. Yang Xiu deduced that the phrase also referred to the upcoming battles in which case Cao Cao would likely withdraw the army soon. Yang told the soldiers and they began packing. Yang was executed for his disobedience.