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Realkaku
A classic that will always burn its Cosmos in my heart.
Saint Seiya is one of the first anime I ever watched, and it became a cornerstone of my childhood. Along with Tiger Mask, it taught me lessons that have stayed with me for life: no matter how hard life hits you, you cannot give up because giving up means losing.
At first glance, it might look like another 80s shōnen with flashy fights, but Saint Seiya is something far more meaningful. The Bronze Saints, Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga, and Shun, are not invincible heroes. They are young fighters who bleed, suffer, and push themselves beyond their limits to protect Athena and humanity. Every victory feels earned, and every fight carries emotional weight because of the sacrifices made along the way.
The Sanctuary arc is one of the most iconic s…
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The apotheosis of anime Mythos.
The greatest of the modern myths, and the most resplendent in both absurdity and sublimity, that in its shimmering extravagance, ascends to the heights of Dante, plunges into the depths of Heraclitus, and shatters with cosmic fists the stale stone idols of our post-shonen era(although coming from the golden age of anime, but still remaining relevant with both the classic saga and the later titles who add to the lore).
Saint Seiya is a sacred epic presented as a battle-shonen, a transfiguration of metal and myth. Like all true works of art, it is not the invention of man, but a mirror in which man rediscovers his forgotten divinity. To call Saint Seiya an epic is to speak with the quiet conviction of those who recognize the eternal struggle beneath the dazz…
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As one of the earliest fighting shonen, Saint Seiya inspired many series to come. It has elements like the Golden Power Up that inspired one in Gundum and might be the thing that someone inspired even the Super Saiyan, it has a tournament arc, has side characters with popularity that exceed the main character and a story structure that is used by shows like Bleach. In particular Bleach resembles a lot on Saint Seiya and can be considered a spiritual successor. Both series have male leads trained by a female character, have to fight people from an organization they are associated with, a traitor subplot and a lot more.
Saint Seiya is about Goddess of War Athena and her warriors referred as Saints who fight for the love and justice of the earth. The enemies range from Saints that abuse the…
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Oh Saint Seiya. My adored. My beloved.
What is there to say about Saint Seiya that hasn't already been said? That it was fumbled so hard by DiC that no one in America has ever heard of it? That it has more plot holes than plot threads? That most of the characters have stupid backstories that make no sense, and that it retreads character arcs like there's no tomorrow?
Sure. Fine. Fine! I will acknowledge that Saint Seiya is no Mob Psycho or [insert quality anime of the month here], but what it lacks in plot coherence (and at times, animation), it makes up for in charm. In staying power. Kurumada created a universe with such a fascinating premise, brimming with potential - so much that you can't help but get hyped as you're watching it.
The main squad has such powerful bonds and fun, fas…
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Before making a review of this anime classic from Toei, let me preface one thing: yes, I bought the figures when I was a teen and I regularly watched and rewatched the reruns in my country to the point of being bored, the last time I did it being twenty-one years ago. This said, I'm trying to objectively review it, with no rose-tinted glasses, especially considering it's the first time I watched it in its original japanese form with no dub or changes of sorts (I don't care if people are crazy about the italian dub as divinity given, I'm an elitist for a reason). These premises said...it's great stuff. The way Toei meshed different mythologies and cultures in one tasty recipe it's incredible, and it's even more incredible that under the clothes of a macho shonen the underlying messages coul…
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A long time classic of my childhood, which I appreciated very much thanks to a great epic story based on Greek myths, along with some of the best characters I have ever seen in terms of visual art, especially when it comes to the so called 12 Gold Knights and their amazing gold armours, depicted in such fine details.
The same is for the iconic 5 bronze armoured protagonists and the various secondary characters. It’s not a case that even after 30 years, the action figures of this anime continue to be widely sold and to be very expensive as well (both the so called Vintage and Myth EX).
The epic battle of the 12 Houses against Seiya and its companions is some of the most memorable story I have ever watched still nowadays thanks to its dark and mysterious atmosphere of its locations. In I…
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Saint Seiya is a rather weird series for me. I watched the DiC Dub when I was a kid and I actually still recall watching it. I really liked the dub at the time, not knowing how bad it actually was, when it got cancelled, I was very disappointed back then.
Time Past and I would hear about this show from time to time, this series along with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Fist of the North Star I would hear was better than Dragon Ball Z a lot. And while I disagree with the latter two shows better than DBZ, I do think this show is good in it's own right and is enjoyable. I recently watched Netflix's Blood of Zeus and played the God of War games so a Greek mythos shonen sounded intriguing to me.
Alright, intro is out of the way, this show is a pretty well made fighting shonen that does a good…
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This anime made my childhood. This is the best anime that I have ever seen in my life and I'm not exaggerating. Out of all of the anime I've watched, none of them compare to Knights of The Zodiac. The fights, the magical fantasy themes, and Greek Mythology, especially the hot men, make up a masterpiece of a story. Don't even get me started on the music. The music is a godsend. Kazuko Kawashima has such an ethereal voice. Her vocals and melodies are unmatchable. Seiji Yokoyama composed amazing songs for this anime. I will admit, this anime does have flaws. The plot can seem repetitive or it's predictable sometimes but despite all of that, it's a great show to watch. I love Shun and Gemini Saga. Saint Seiya is like a religion in Latin America. It really is a bummer that Saint Seiya never bec…
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I truly, honestly, cannot understate the importance of Saint Seiya in my life. Whenever I help at the medical center where I live, whenever I help those in need, volunteer to be there, I think "it's just what a saint, be it bronze, silver or gold, would do." It was the very first, and, for over a decade, only, anime, I had ever watched, and watched multiple times. To this day, I'm still here. Still watching, still waiting. People say a lot about how pop culture can have an effect on your life, how it can teach you values, all of that shit, and most of it, it's just that. Bullshit. Not this. Saint Seiya is not like most anime. There aren't many jokes, it plays its cards straight, taking itself seriously, sometimes even to a comic degree, I'll admit it. But I will not tolerate shit about how…
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Saint Seiya is one of the most well know anime around the world except in north america, so my first advice to understand this is you avoid the dubbed versions, if you can´t see anime with subtitles, then as usual you going to see different terms and the poetic language altered in several parts, especially since this is an anime that adapt elements and terms of Greek mythology, Buddhism between others.
I barely gonna talk about the story or any spoiler since you can read that in the description.
The direction of the anime first part is very influenced by fist of the north star, the stamp of the Shōnen about fights of those years, and besides many legendary directors animated different episodes, the atmosphere and art style keep an distinctive general style.
This is one of the Shōnen tha…
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All 114 Completed. (Español Disponible)
If you would like to see an old classic anime, this would be a perfect choice, I must warn you, it would be a little slow at the beginning but, don't worry. I'ts a good start for old anime. The animation will be not the best (undestand it's 1989) so it's very good for the time they were making it.
I speccially like the music, because it tells you many things, when the battle is gonna begin, when it ends, in the special attacks, it's very beautiful.
I don't wanna give you any spoilers, but it's worth it.
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Todos 114 Capítulos Completos.
Si quisieras ver un anime clásico antiguo, esta sería una elección perfecta, debo advertirte, sería un poco lento al principio pero no te preocupe…
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This is a hard one for me to write about because I started watching it about 6 months ago and my memories of the earlier episodes I enjoyed have faded. I remember thinking the Galaxian Wars arc was fun and a nice introduction to the characters. There was just enough there that was a different, cool twist on this sort of show's formula to keep me interested. I started using this show as kind of a "start the day with an easy episode of X" thing.
Then the arc with Phoenix Ikki as the Big Bad started up and I remember thinking that was hype. It was a cool brother against brother story with simple, significant stakes. The later stories about the silver saints and the various battles over the Saggitarius Cloth were also quite good. It was sad that the Saints present for the Galaxian Wars who we…
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Maybe a good anime for children, but overall it isn't very well written. The stories and plots are all the same; even the characters and bad guys outside of a few are all the same. Same powers with different names.
Every battle has the same flashbacks of being twin brothers and best friends but now enemies.
Sometimes the flashbacks are the same exact production clipped from previous episodes redone over and over.
The first arc with Ikki was better than the rest of the 114 episodes. I'd be happy to give the first season a better score if it wasn't bundled together with the other 114 episodes.
The highlight of everything is yelling Nebula Chain everytime Shun fights then finding the episode with the Nebula Chain song. This is despite Shun losing 99% of every fight accross all 114 epis…
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BEHOLD, one of the grandaddies of modern Shounen Anime!
I must assume you've grown up in the US, because thats the only place in the west where people have never watched or even heard of Saint Seiya in their youth (the english dub is atrocious, so I can't blame ya). It was a MASSIVE hit in Europe (no JoJo reference intended haha) and Latin America so I have very fond childhood memories of it, but I will try to be as impartial as possible.
Story: 7/10
Some people will tell you Saint Seyia is a very cliche 80's shounen battle anime, and for the most part that is true. But is it really a problem when this series has CREATED most of the cliches it shows? Together with Dragon Ball, SS has made popular many tropes which are widely used by modern shounen today, so you must take the cliches he…
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I have never been so much interested in writing reviews since I joined, but since there are very few in the Saint Seiya series, I begin, obviously, from the legendary one.
I think everyone knows the knights of the zodiac, at least in name. A historical series, a pious milestone in the world of manga like Dragon Ball and JoJo, written by Masami Kurumadain the 80s, but which has found its fame mainly thanks to the anime, illustrated by the great hands of Micho Himeno and Shingo Araki, and with Seki Yokoyama music. A must watch!
STORY: 7
I don't go in details, since there are already other reviews., In short words, the story speaks of the Saints, warriors with superhuman abilities thanks to the dominion of the Cosmos, who wear armors called Cloths, 88 in total, associated with the constel…
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Pegasus... Ryuseiken!
Ahh, Saint Seiya. The curious case of Saint Seiya. An absolute classic that helped Dragon Ball in popularizing the long-running fighting shounen "genre" back in the late 80s, that yet, as opposed to Mr. Toriyama's work, gets so little attention, interest and recognition online in comparison to virtually all of the other big ones that followed it later, with some of them even being inspired by it (well-known authors like Tite Kubo, Masashi Kishimoto and CLAMP have all declared to have been inspired by this show. In fact, Bleach’s most popular arc was inspired by Saint Seiya’s most popular arc too). Along with the fact that this was the first ever anime show I completed back in the 90s (when internet wasn’t even a thing yet) that instantly became one of my all-time fav…
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As someone who had an interest in Greek Mythology since childhood, Saint Seiya was a series that naturally appealed to me. Coupled with it's other aesthetic elements such as the intricate, inventive and cool Cloth designs, the great level of detail and style in it's art to make the male characters noble and the females beautiful or having one of the best opening songs in anime and a great soundtrack in general, the series seems top tier from a stylistic point of view, but what about substance?
When it comes to plot and characters, the series can be described as simple but fairly well executed. All of the major characters have pretty transparent motivations without too much subtlety, yet their personalities of it's major players are all very memorable and fairly consistent.
As for the plot…
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I'm sure that if you have been into anime or video games long enough, you have heard the name Saint Seiya. It is a behemoth legacy series that has inspired many of the following generations' works.
○ You can see similar designs to Saint Seiya in CLAMP, especially in CLAMP's human proportions, and Rumiko Takahashi's works, as well as similarities in sister shows such as: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Ronin Warriors, and the infamous Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Saint Seiya also became an important staple for fujoshi culture and a benchmark for the shounen fighting genre.
• Something that prevented Saint Seiya from becoming a bigger show to a Western audience, and what I found really interesting about the series is the use of title ancestry. If you don't know what I'm referring to, an example is t…
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There are a few things I want to say before I get into this review. This is my first ever review so it's probably not going to be anything special. I was inspired to write this because recently it's been announced that Saint Seiya is going to receive a live action movie, a spin-off anime (the manga of which is being officially licensed), and a Netflix remake. All of these are going to be coming out around 2019. That's a lot of material to be released in a one year timespan, especially from an 80s anime that barely anyone hears about. That's another thing, Saint Seiya was never popular in North America (for various reasons, one being the anime has very bad subs about halfway in) so there's not a lot of people talking about it online. I think this is a good opportunity to review the series s…
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This is my first review so please don't be to harsh on me.
I became a fan of this series only a couple of years ago because in the US this anime and manga series is ignored probably because of a poorly done dubbing back in the early 2000's.
The plot involves a group of orphan boys serve the Greek Goddess Athena and they fight with armor that is based on constellations called Cloths and they battle enemies that are in the Sanctuary and they battle other greek gods as well.
What I like about this series is that the cloth designs are really cool and creative and I like the character designs as well.
What I don't like is that the characters need more development, most of the time they are serious but there is some comical scenes and I wish that the anime stuck more to the manga, because…
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