With the way that Sima Yi is the protagonist, I have high hopes for the final confrontations. (Also, did you know that they have other rival great strategists? And that some of these are rather pretty?) BTW, Zhuge Liang appears in ch. 18. I won't give away the details of the settei, but if you take the real history, it's all very cracked out.

Yep, the series is really popular in Taiwan as well. ^_^