Richard doesn't want the throne. He just wants his father to stop looking at him like he's a mistake. That wish, that one small human need, becomes the hinge on which an entire nation's civil war turns. The show builds its philosophy not from political grand strategy, but from a single man's impossible internal geometry, caught between the person he is and the person everyone needs him to be. Shakespeare's Wars of the Roses become the stage, but the real battle is Richard learning whether he can survive being loved for himself, or if that's a luxury no one born into power gets to have.

England bleeds as two noble houses, York and Lancaster, tear the kingdom apart over who should rightfully wear the crown. Richard, third son of the Duke of York, has trained all his life to fight at his father's side and wants nothing more than to see him take the throne from King Henry VI. Yet that simple wish only drives the country deeper into war. Richard also guards a secret that earns him his mother's contempt, while cruel voices and frightening spirits torment him, and his father's love is his one comfort. As the fighting turns bloodier, his own hunger for the throne grows, old loyalties begin to crack, and uneasy alliances form with his enemies. Drawn from Aya Kanno's manga, this supernatural historical drama sets the Wars of the Roses against one young man's private battle.