Conan the Adventurer Season 1

Conan the Adventurer, I don’t  remember this series. I’m sure I must have watched it sometime throughout the 80s and 90s.  My children had never heard of or seen anything related to Conan so this was new for them.

Because this is a children’s cartoon show, this Conan couldn’t have the violence that he otherwise had in the movies (and I assume the books, though I have yet to read any so can’t say for sure). The villains in the show are serpent men who are disguised as human with magic, and instead of killing them Conan simply holds his sword toward them and they are sucked into some kind of energy void.

In the first episode, Conan is a  teenager when metal falls from the sky his father the blacksmith creates a bunch of weapons from it, including a sword for Conan to use when he’s older. Years pass, and the main bad guy Wrath-Amon visits the village and demands all the star metal, but since it’s gone he uses a spell to turn Conan’s parents into stone. This gets Conan angry and thus the two become sworn enemies!

Conan recognizes that the only way to defeat Wrath-Amon is to use star-metal weapons against him, and so the adventure goes on as Conan travels the land seeking out all the star-metal weapons his father crafted. In first half of the season it seems like he meets a new traveling companion almost every episode.

As a cartoon series, it’s not bad.  My kids liked it alright. Not as much as some of the more recent cartoons. The art and animation feel like a cartoon from the mid-to-late 80s to the early 90s, which is to be expected.
The DVD​ set contains all 13 episodes of the first season on 2 discs, but unfortunately it doesn’t contain any extra features.