Character Profile | Eros


Eros (1976)

Eros (1979)

About

Name: Eros
Other Names: 
Gender: Male
Species:
 God
First Appeared: Eros appears in the Prologue chapter of the November 1976 issue of Sanrio’s Lyrica Magazine.

Eros (エロス Erosu) is the son of Venus, who helps try to separate Unico from Psyche. Since he is the god of love, he uses his arrows to make Psyche fall in love with an ugly beast, but hits her and himself thanks to Unico. He then falls in love with her and cannot do any more.

Physical Appearance

In the manga, Eros has red hair and wears a golden toga with his quiver of arrows on his back. In the 1979 short, he would have had brown hair and a white toga.

Personality

Eros is carefree and follows his mother’s orders, even when he finds them silly.

Abilities

  • Can fly
  • Shoots arrows to make gods and mortals fall in love

Timeline of Appearances

DateMore Information
1976In the Lyrica manga version, Psyche appears first in the November 1976 issue. She is a beautiful young woman who is blessed to have Unico as her pet. The jealous goddess Venus learns she has the little unicorn and does her best to get rid of him and make Psyche fall in love with an ugly beast.

1979While Eros did not appear in the finished version of the 1979 short, a handful of cels were released to the public, which shows what he would have looked like.