Arion (1979)

Original title

アリオン

Directed by

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Genre

fantasy anime and manga

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 59m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man named Arion was kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that Zeus blinded his mother. He sets out to kill Zeus, the ruler of Mount Olympus, hoping that this will restore his mother's sight.

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What happens

Arion (Japanese: アリオン) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, published in Tokuma Shoten's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Ryū from May 1979 to November 1984, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon volumes. A young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her. An anime feature film adaptation, directed by Yasuhiko and co-written with Akiko Tanaka, was released in 1986 under the title Neo Heroic Fantasia: Arion, and has been licensed by Discotek Media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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