The Arslan Novel Gallery
Sixteen novels, two publishers, two illustrators, and one thirty-one-year wait for the ending.
The gallery below is the complete novel run as published, with each volume’s Japanese release date and ISBN. Only the first cover is pictured: it is the one Arslan cover this archive could verify from an openly reachable source, and the remaining volumes stand documented in text rather than borrowed pictures, per the Library’s standing rule.
THE KADOKAWA TEN
1986–1999 · Art by Yoshitaka Amano
Volume 1 · Ōto Enjō, “The Capital Ablaze” · August 13, 1986
The first Arslan cover: Yoshitaka Amano’s armoured prince for Kadokawa. The volume that started a thirty-one-year run. ISBN 4-04-166501-9.
Volume 2
Japanese release March 12, 1987. ISBN 4-04-166502-7. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 3
Japanese release September 11, 1987. ISBN 4-04-166503-5. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 4
Japanese release August 11, 1988. ISBN 4-04-166504-3. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 5
Japanese release February 22, 1989. ISBN 4-04-166505-1. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 6
Japanese release September 1, 1989. ISBN 4-04-166506-X. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 7
Japanese release March 9, 1990. ISBN 4-04-166507-8. The last of Part One.
Volume 8
Japanese release December 3, 1991. ISBN 4-04-166508-6. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 9
Japanese release July 18, 1992. ISBN 4-04-166509-4. Cover art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Volume 10
Japanese release November 30, 1999. ISBN 4-04-166510-8. The end of the Kadokawa run, and a seven-year wait since volume 9.
THE KOBUNSHA SIX
2005–2017 · Art by Shinobu TannoVolume 11
Japanese release September 25, 2005. ISBN 978-4-334-07619-1. The first new Arslan in six years, opening the Kobunsha era with Shinobu Tanno’s illustrations.
Volume 12
Japanese release December 6, 2006. ISBN 978-4-334-07644-3. Kobunsha edition, illustrations by Shinobu Tanno.
Volume 13
Japanese release October 6, 2008. ISBN 978-4-334-07677-1. Kobunsha edition, illustrations by Shinobu Tanno.
Volume 14
Japanese release May 20, 2014. ISBN 978-4-334-07722-8. Kobunsha edition, illustrations by Shinobu Tanno.
Volume 15
Japanese release May 20, 2016. ISBN 978-4-334-07730-3. Kobunsha edition, illustrations by Shinobu Tanno.
Volume 16
Japanese release December 20, 2017. ISBN 978-4-334-07735-8. The final volume. Tanaka finished the manuscript in August 2017; only two people besides him knew the ending in advance.
AROUND THE NOVELS
Companion booksTenma no Yume · July 23, 1991
Yoshitaka Amano’s Arslan art book, “The Dream of the Heavenly Horse,” published by Kadokawa while the novels were still young.
Arslan Senki Dokuhon · April 28, 2000
Kadokawa’s official reader’s guide, and the home of the series’ one official side story.
The story on tape · 1988–1994
The first nine novels were also released as audio productions on cassette by Kadokawa, the first seven reissued on CD in May 1993.