Arion (manga)
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Arion (アリオン) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, published in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū from March 1979 to September 1984. The manga's 28 individual chapters were collected into 5 tankōbon volumes. It is the official debut of Yasuhiko as a mangaka. The story follows Arion, 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.[1]
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Genre | Mythic fiction |
Manga | |
Written by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
Published by | Tokuma Shoten |
Magazine | Monthly Comic Ryū |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | March 1979 – September 1984 |
Volumes | 5 |
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Neo Heroic Fantasia: Arion | |
Directed by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
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Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
Studio | Sunrise |
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Released | March 15, 1986 |
Runtime | 118 minutes |
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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 (ネオ・ヒロイック・ファンタジア アリオン).[2]
The manga has been licensed in France by publisher naBan[3] and China by Tongli[4]