"Kongming of the Party People") is a Japanese manga series written by Yuto Yotsuba and illustrated by Ryo Ogawa [ja].
The series was serialized on Kodansha's Comic Days [ja] website from December 2019 to November 2021, before being transferred to Weekly Young Magazine; its chapters have been collected in 20 tankōbon volumes as of February 2025.
Set in Shibuya, Tokyo, the series centers on Zhuge Kongming, who is transported from ancient China to modern Japan and uses military tactics to transform his new friend, Eiko Tsukimi, into a music star.
He is reborn (in his youth) in modern Japan, appearing in the middle of a costume party for Halloween in the club district of Tokyo.
The partygoers (in Japanese, "Paripi", a contraction of the English 'party people') of Shibuya lure him to a nightclub, where he meets Eiko Tsukimi, an aspiring singer, and his second life begins.
[56] At their Otakon panel in July 2022, Sentai Filmworks announced that the series would receive an English dub, which premiered on the Hidive service on September 23 of that same year.
It is written and directed by Akira Ishida from the comedian duo Non Style, and stars Ray Fujita, Haruki Iwata, and Moeka Koizumi, among others.
[66] The series ranked ninth on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2021" by the Honya Club website.