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“Happy Science cult's first anime film depicts Hermes, prophesied hero, saving princess and battling evil King Minos.”
Hermes: Winds of Love
ヘルメス 愛は風の如く
4.93
14,244 rank · 1,864 viewers · 1 favorites
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Fantasy
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Happy Science cult's first anime film depicts Hermes, prophesied hero, saving princess and battling evil King Minos.
Thousands of years in the past, a young boy named Hermes is named as a future great hero in a prophecy. Hermes grows up to save a beautiful princess and face the evil king Minos of Crete. The first title in the series of anime films by the Happy Science cult.
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
4.5
/10
What 2 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 4.5
mode 2
σ 2.50
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.50 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.50
Running avg · Jan 2013 → Apr 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “This anime is about the Greek god Hermes, who first tries to rescue Aphrodite and later free Crete from the tyranny of king Minos. This certainly looks old, but I was pleasantly surprised by the...”
- 2 “Perhaps, to commemorate the life of Ryuho Okawa, we chose to watch the first installment of the Happy Science Religion (cough cult cough) movies. Now, this is not the first Happy Science film I...”
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- Format 1 × 114′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 54m all episodes
- Aired Apr 1997 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-4811 catalog
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