Amon Saga

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.

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.

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 cameo (renamed Ekuna, but they can’t fool me). The dub is almost competent, a disappointment considering a horrible dub would have made the film funny, as opposed to boring. Oh so cliché and boring.

I’d definitely pass on this one unless you’re REALLY hard up for some fantasy anime, but even then you can do a lot better. Should you ever find yourself forced to watch Amon Saga however, I’ve got your back:

Amon Saga: The Drinking Game (believe me, you’ll need it):

1) Someone says “Amon”; take a drink.

2) Someone is punched, kicked, stabbed, whipped or generally hurt in some way; take a drink.

3) There are breasts on the screen; finish your drink.

4) You are reminded that the sorcerer is a sorcerer; take a drink.

5) A character's eyes do a weird thing; take a drink.

6) There’s a rock turtle on the screen; chug.

7) Amon has tears in his eyes; cheers!

8) Exxxtreme rules, experts only: An oily man has no shirt on; drink.

This will get you drunk, and possibly dead. Have fun.