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.
Direction
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's painterly, kinetic action sequences.
Cinematography
Hand-drawn mythological destruction on an epic scale.
Production
Sunrise throwing budget at every frame of divine warfare.
Director
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yasuhiko adapted his own 1979 manga, infusing shonen sensibilities into Greek myth decades before Fate/Grand Order made it trendy.
The film's commercial failure killed Yasuhiko's directorial momentum for years — he wouldn't return to film until 1998's Gundam: The 08th MS Team, making Arion a fascinating dead-end in mecha-legend career.
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