Arslan Senki
English title: The Heroic Legend of Arslan
Japanese title: アルスラーン戦記
Type: OVA
Source: Novel
Episodes: 6
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Aug 17, 1991 to Sep 21, 1995
Duration: 38 min per ep
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Studios: animate Film, Aubec
Producers: Aniplex, Kadokawa Shoten, Movic, Sony Music Entertainment
Licensors: Central Park Media
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Themes: Historical

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.

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