Arion (manga)

Arion (アリオン) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, published in Tokuma Shoten's manga magazine Monthly Comic Ryū from May 1979 to November 1984, with its chapters collected in five  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 (ネオ・ヒロイック・ファンタジア　アリオン), and has been licensed by Discotek Media.

Cast

 * Shigeru Nakahara - Arion
 * Miki Takahashi - Resphoina
 * Mayumi Tanaka - Seneca
 * Hirotaka Suzuoki - Apollo
 * Masako Katsuki - Athena
 * Chikao Ōtsuka - Hades
 * Kiyoshi Kobayashi - Poseidon
 * Masanobu Ōkubo - Zeus
 * Ichirō Nagai - Lycaon
 * Reiko Mutō - Demeter
 * Hideyuki Tanaka - Prometheus
 * Kazue Komiya - Arion (young)
 * Ryōko Kinomiya - Gaia
 * Toku Nishio - Gido
 * Daisuke Gōri - Heracles
 * Bin Shimada - Ares
 * Takako Ōta - Pio
 * Kōhei Miyauchi - Ethos
 * Hisako Kyōda - Ethos' Wife
 * Tomomichi Nishimura - Priest

Publication
Written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Arion was serialized in Tokuma Shoten's manga magazine Monthly Comic Ryū from May 20, 1979,  to November 1, 1984. Tokuma Shoten collected its chapters in five volumes, published from November 10, 1980, to January 10, 1985.

The manga has been licensed in France by publisher naBan, and in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing.