Arslan Senki

The Heroic Legend of Arslan

Arslan Senki

アルスラーン戦記

Score⭐ 6.88
Rank#5156
Popularity#5094
TypeOVA
Episodes6
StatusFinished Airing
AiredAug 17, 1991 to Sep 21, 1995
Duration38 min per ep
RatingPG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Synopsis

In the medieval kingdom of Pars, young Prince Arslan confronts the hostility of his father and the disinterest of his mother, and yearns to learn more about the world. Despite being surrounded by poverty and slavery, Arslan persists in seeing the possibility of a nobler world. Everything changes when the neighboring nation of Lusitania invades Pars, and Arslan is forced to grow up in an instant. Arslan Senki follows Prince Arslan to war, where he struggles to save his nation and family with the help of a small but devoted circle of advisers. Along the way the young prince finds secrets around every corner and faces enemies who hate him because of what he is, but also finds friends where he least expects them. The story of nations at war, Arslan Senki is also the story of one boy's quest to stay himself in the most trying of circumstances.

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Additional Information

SourceNovel
ProducersAniplex, Kadokawa Shoten, Movic, Sony Music Entertainment
LicensorsCentral Park Media
Studiosanimate Film, Aubeck

Background

Novelist Tanaka Yoshiki, who wrote Arslan Senki in 1986, based it loosely upon the 19th-century Persian folktale of a famous Amir Arslan.