AniWorthAmon Saga
Introduction
Set in a world of fantasy and adventure, Amon is a young warrior embarking on a quest to avenge the death of his mother. When the hunt leads him ultimately to the kingdom of Valhiss, Amon enlists in the ranks of the Emperor's army in order to gain an opportunity to exact his revenge. However, a chance encounter with the Princess Lichia, being held captive by the Emperor in an effort to ransom a map away from his main rival, King Darai-Sem, Amon must decide whether to follow his path of revenge or to help rescue the Princess in an effort to save a lost kingdom.
(Source: ANN)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.56/10 · 2918
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Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
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For such cool looking cover art the anime itself is quite ordinary. MC is looking for revenge and helps some people along the way. Not much more to it than that. It's a little scifi but mostly it's just Conan the Barbarian. It does have some nice violence, but there's nothing over-the-top like some other OVAs out there. The animation quality is kind of a question mark. The issue is that it only exists on Laser Disc or a HORRIBLE quality DVD, so I'm left wondering what this would look like given a proper remaster. It's definitely worth watching, but also disappointing in that it doesn't stand out at all.
Read at the sourceGARGVLA
Here's a good old Sword and Sorcery inspired animation.
I would say, that is one of the cleanest ones that I ever watch. I just turned in my old CRT and that was great. Good fights and fantasy at the right level.
I definitely recommend this for low fantasy appreciators like me. Nothing like the good old barbarians and red haired mystic swordsmans, but yeah. The story is not that deep and the turns of events are pretty unscaled and not as great as another japanese animations.
It does really catches the 80s fantasy set up and it is really nice. But it has the japanese stories touch and i think that's a little bit forgotten nowadays, but they are really good at the dark fantasy thing. Maybe because of the domination of the high fantasy of the animation industry.
Read at the sourceVoivodian
Amon Saga is a surprisingly rare example of pure fantasy anime in the 80s, a period where cannon bristling mecha and cosmos faring starships will muscle their way into any action/adventure anime; regardless of genre. One of the few other anime I can think of is Arion, released the same year but based more on Greek mythology than swords and sorcery type stuff.
This anime also reminds me alot of Eiyuu Gaiden Mozaicka with the vengeance seeking stoic bishounen warrior banding together an array of colourful personalities to take down an imposing masked villain bent on conquest. I'd call this anime extremely generic fantasy; in plot and art direction if it wasn't such an early example of fantasy anime as mentioned above. The art/animation is pretty much equal to the period's TV anime (but not…
Read at the sourcechrissy_poo_too
Amon Saga is a ridiculous OVA from 1986. Yoshitaka Amano worked on the script and character design which was enough to pique my interest; he’s a great artist and I recommend you check out his work. Except maybe Amon Saga; I recommend you stay as far away from Amon Saga as possible. This thing is capital L Lame. A lot of anime from this time period has been derided for being unnecessarily violent, having questionable animation, and telling piss poor stories. Unfortunately Amon Saga fits the bill pretty well in all of these categories.
The film in a nutshell: Amon is involved in an epic saga. He wants revenge on a tyrant and ends up meeting a hot princess and having some weird, vaguely homoerotic adventures despite the hot princess. There’s some brief nudity and a possible Vampire Hunter D…
Read at the sourceShura-shurato
I give a better rating for this movie, and although there are flaws left and right with some animation drops, i like it, Time consuming in this today´s rushed world or not i like it. Not the most Original anime story from 1986 and not the best one , but its enjoyable enough without the digitalized anime, all of it ws handdrwan ofc and have sort of slight ´a la vampire hunter D scent´ with the medevil fantasy background and mystical monsters. >The development and designs for our heroe´s and villians is shoddy compared to todays standarts LIKE I CARE, but could do better in interacting and personal story background , some more focus would do good. Potentially it held back a bit what dissapointed me and as a lone and short project i would like to see more. Production wise there was not too mu…
Read at the sourceTCHaos
- ANIMATION -
Let not the cover art fool you, Amon Saga is from 1986 so the animation is very basic (yet typical of that time) and might not appeal to most audiences accustomed to modern illustration styles. Having said that, the sequences are fluid but do occassionally seem to stall with frames where animation was done against still background shots. This anime does not show much attention to image detail or definition but this is probably due to budget constraints. It seems evident that Amon Saga did not recieve a digital remastering when issued into its DVD format leaving the images blurry and the colours with a 'faded' feel to them; which sadly has hampered the viewing pleasure.
- SOUND -
Regretably the soundtrack is not a memorable one as it lacks a gripping opening score. Dialogue i…
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