Arion

Name: Arion
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation, Fantasy
Released: 1986-03-15
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 6.2

★ 6,2 /10 (31 Votes)

1986 JA 119 min

Overview

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.

Release date

15/03/1986

Votes

Popularity

2.2

Let the Gods beware!

Genres

Adventure Action Animation Fantasy

Status

Released

Original title

アリオン

Language

Runtime

119 min

Shigeru Nakahara

Arion (voice)

Miki Takahashi

Resphoina (vioce)

Mayumi Tanaka

Seneca (voice)

Hirotaka Suzuoki

Apollon (voice)

Bin Shimada

Ares (voice)

Masako Katsuki

Athena (voice)

Kohei Miyauchi

Ethos (voice)

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Toku Nishio

Gido (voice)

Chikao Ohtsuka

Hades (voice)

Hideyuki Tanaka

Prometheus (voice)

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Takako Ota

Pio (voice)

Daisuke Gori

Hercules (voice)

Original Soundtrack

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I've never seen a telling of the Old World Gods (the Olympians) from a Japanese viewpoint before this film, and I see similarities to known tales. Our story begins with a foul deed being done upon our young main character, Arion, and we were not told why as of yet, but hopefully soon. The animation is just as I remember 80s & 90s Anime to be, eg. DragonBall w/Son Goku & A Wind Named Amnesia, it's just so raw and in your face, along with the fluidity of the character's motions and also the beast within our story. Hades is the true master of Lies and Deception in our story, as far as the…

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