Arion(Movie, 1979)

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. 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). The manga has been licensed in France by publisher naBan and China by Tongli ()