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The Heroic Legend of Arslan or Arslan War Record, is originally a novel (7 volumes) written by Yoshiki Tanaka, the famous Japanese writer who has also written The Legend of Galaxy Heros. The Heroic Legend of Arslan novels are not only in Japanese, but were also translated into Chinese(14 volumes). The story then has been made into an animation which includes 6 volumes of video tapes so far.(The first one was made a movie in 1990, under the name of "6-Dimension Heroic Legend")
The Heroic Legend of Arslan mangas (Japanese comic) (published by Asuka Comics DX) are drawn by Chisato Nakamura. Due to the popularity, the manga series, which ends up at volume 13, were also translated into Chinese and published by Tohan publishing company.
The background is set on an imaginary country, Pars. The story is about the adventure of a young Parsian prince, Arslan, who tries to fight back to Pars with his loyal friends. The story starts at the Parsian traitors collude with Lusitanians to rebel; Arslan flees under the help of a loyal knight, Darun. They gather up with a clever artist--Narsus, Narsus' servent--Elam, a beautiful priestess--Farangese, and a dissolute poet--Gieve, thus the gorgeous heroic advanture begins.
The story is full of exoticism. From the characters' clothing and language, it seems that most of the scenes take places in India, Arabia and some other eastern countries, and the story is probably loosely based on Persian myth and history.
Further Information About "Arslan"
Pars is probably not a totally imaginary nation but the Persian word for Persia. The Heroic Legends of Arslan is based on a Persian novel called "Amir Arslan," which was written a couple centuries ago in poetic style. The main character in "Amir Arslan", Arslan, is from a country called Room--maybe an alternative name of Rome. His kingdom was invaded when he was still in his mother's womb, and his mother was taken by the enemy to be sold as slaves.
-Information by Ali Tavakoly.
In the history of Ottoman Empire, there were 2 rich families in Lebanon that struggled for the supremacy until the middle of 1800 when an Egyptian general conquered Lebanon. Among these 2 families, one was called Jumblatt, and the other was Arslan. This information can be found in: D. GLIMOUR, "Libano un paese in frantumi" Edition: Ponte alle Grazie, 1989. This is the Italian translation of the original English version.
-Information by Alessio.
Special Thanks to: Alex Y from Alex's The Heroic Legend of Arsland for the information.
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