“Ahhhh, ah-ah-ah-ah, Esteban, Zia, Tao, oooooooo cities!” The Mysterious Cities of Gold is an anime based on a novel golden road by Scott O’Dell, published in 1966. The series, broadcast in Japan since 1982, arrived in France on Antenne 2 the following year. Since then, it has aired many times.
Spain, 1532. A 12-year-old boy, Esteban, leaves the Barcelona Cathedral to go and hear the extraordinary stories of sailors. This is how he meets the navigator Mendoza, who claims to have saved him at sea when he was a child. He has evidence of a piece of a mysterious pendant that Esteban wears around his neck. When his mentor dies, Esteban decides to follow Mendoza in search of the legendary cities of gold. Then he travels to a new world, following his origins…
Esteban and Zia
In the previous episode, Esteban and his friends found the golden city of Ceila, but the Olmecs come to attack it to recover the great inheritance. A fight begins, from which the Olmecs are defeated, their ship crashes. Two of them survived, Menator and Kalmek.
At the beginning of the last episode, entitled Towards New Adventures, we find Smoking Shield Menator and Calmec on Mount Calmec, holding a great heirloom, an hourglass with a glass pillar in the center and which allows the heart. The solar reactor is operational. They start the mechanism and the great legacy sinks into the earth and digs deeper and deeper. In this way, toxic gases will escape and spread to the world’s population.

Kalmek manipulates a large inheritance under Menator
Moreover, a manipulation error by the Olmecs leads to an additional disaster: the city of gold is destroyed and the two leaders surrender without being able to correct the mistake. The high priest, the guardian of the golden cities, who holds the golden vase, which is also the operative key of the great inheritance, decides to go to the mountain of the smoking shield to prevent this impending disaster.

In front of the high priest Esteban
As destruction nears, the navigator Mendoza learns that the high priest who went to the mountain is none other than a prophetic traveler who visited the city of Ceila several years ago. He assumed the role of high priest when the latter died, thinking that his son would one day come to find him thanks to the sun medallion he left behind. In other words, the high priest is Esteban’s father.

Esteban talks (unknowingly) to his father
The latter has a chance to talk to his son for the last time. He then goes to the mountain and exhausts his last strength in removing the pillar from the cup of great inheritance, placing the vine on it, and setting it in its place. He dies to save the earth. On the other hand, Ceila and Gaspard were left with nothing, as Gomez, who remained in the city due to greed, perished.

The city is destroyed
Mendoza, Sancho and Pedro survived and saved the gold until the complete destruction of the city, of which nothing now remains. They decide to go back to where it all began: Barcelona “achieve great things”. As for Esteban, Zia, Tao and Pichu, they board the Grand Condor and go in search of the other six cities of gold that still exist around the world.
The end of the series.
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