Shooting the Target Through Runners... The Incredible Archery Skills of the Sou Brothers Astonish Shin: "That's More Than 10 Times the Usual Distance!" – First Episode of Anime "Kingdom" Season 6

The anime "Kingdom" Season 6 began airing on October 4. The superhuman(!?) archery skills of the new characters, Sou Jin (voiced by Shō Komura) and Sou Tan (voiced by Daichi Hayashi), have sparked an avalanche of astonished reactions online, such as "Cheating level!" and "They’re such monsters, I was shocked!"

In Episode 1, "The Qin Barrier," the brothers Jin and Tan participate in the recruitment test for the "Hi Shin Unit" (Flying Shin Unit), but fall short in physical ability and are promptly eliminated. However, after receiving a tough remark from Karyō Ten (voiced by Rie Kugimiya): "If you failed at the physical test, you’d have to outperform everyone else and accurately hit a target from twice the distance in the skills test to remain," Jin replies confidently, "That is an easy task."

Amazingly, the arrow Jin fires flies straight and true, threading its way precisely between the running new recruit candidates and piercing the center of a distant target. While Shin (voiced by Masakazu Morita) is stunned—"The distance to the target is more than ten times the usual! At this range!"—Jin remains completely unflustered. Moreover, his younger brother Tan also manages to land his arrow in the center of the target from the same distance.

It turns out that Jin and Tan's father, Sou Gen, is a master archer who was counted among the "Ten Archers of China". With both an incredible heritage and immense skills, the Sou brothers have amazed the internet with comments like "Cheating level!" "These archer brothers are freakishly good," "Absolutely monstrous—I was blown away," and "Their archery precision is so high it even surprises Shin and Ten!"