Prince Alexander, son of King Philip, and heir to the Macedonian empire, must fend off political saboteurs, assassins, and the jealousy of his own father to ascend to the position of king. Once there, he begins his quest to conquer all nations and become known as the Great King, though an ancient prophecy foretells that he will be the destroyer of the world and forever remembered as the Devil King.
Direction
Rintaro's wild visual excess crammed into 100 minutes
Production
Character designs by Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame
Score
Bombastic orchestral chaos matching the onscreen madness
Director
Yoshinori Kanemori
Toshihiko Seki
Alexander
Daisuke Gori
Antigonos
Nachi Nozawa
Aristotle
Atsuko Tanaka
Cassandra
Hochu Otsuka
Cleitus
Koichi Yamadera
Darius III
Ryusei Nakao
Dinocrates
Kazuo Kumakura
Diogenes
Koji Tsujitani
Hephaestion
Junko Mashina
Olympias
Tadashi Nakamura
Parmenion
Yoshisada Sakaguchi
Philip II
Toru Furuya
Philippos
Kohsuke Meguro
Philotas
Shuichi Ikeda
Ptolemy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Chung's angular, elongated character designs were so divisive that original Japanese broadcasts included viewer complaints.
This was part of a 2000s wave of 'world history anime' that wildly reimagined Western figures through a Japanese lens — think less documentary, more fever dream.
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