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ilNico
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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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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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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Saint Seiya is a series that ,unfortunately, a lot of people are not familiar with. If you ever have the honor of watching the anime, please do so because I can honestly say that the 3,420 hours you put in won't be disappointing.
~Story: As you should know, Saint Seiya is a back in the day shounen anime which means it is targeted to young males with a huge emphasis on A LOT of fighting/action and little to no romance. The story is told in a simplistic way, you will never be confused or lost as everything pretty much laid on the table for you. This however does not take away from the fact that it sells soooooo well in the light of it's attempt to be humble and unique.
~Art: The art style was great, however it was only something that Saint Seiya could pull off back then. The elements they…
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Story and Characters
What really appealed to me about this story was the inclusion of Greek mythology and the use of the constellations to each represent a guardian to Athena. As a modern day re-telling of those qualities, I find that it's adapted very excellently. I like how the concept of chains for lets say Andromeda is transitioned from the original mythology to the character Shun, and of course everybody knows what the legend of the phoenix is, and its used very conveniently with the character Ikki. If you pretty much know the original Greek stories on a basic level, I say it can add a bit more to the enjoyment. If you're expecting something very accurate and 100% faithful, don't bet on it. Keep in mind this is a semi-retelling of Greek mythology with some Asian cultural twists to it…
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This series is a hard one for me to rate at all. It is one of my all-time favourites, has amazing nostalgic values + I like to think of it as the father of all Shounen Fighting Anime. This is because it started a lot of storylines that have now become cliches Naruto, Bleach and many more use quite often. These include giving the opponent a backbone by giving him a backstory. Tournament arcs are touched on. The attacks of those shows are also very reflective of Saint Seiya and two other animes from its decade (DBZ and Fist of the North Star.) Even Yakitate Japan uses ideas born in Saint Seiya, but obviously in a more satirical way...
The animation for this series is obviously going to seem dated because of the poor frame rate and some jerkiness in its presentation. However new masters have…
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Story
Saint Seiya is a shounen anime that features several elements of mythology (mostly Greek mythology) where the characters represent and are too protected by one of the 88 constellations.
The main characters, the Bronze Saints (or "Knights" in the Western version), are the ones responsible to protect the goddess Athena and the humanity against the 'evil' Greek gods.
The fighting is generally interesting to watch, since (almost) every character has an unique gimmick or superpower.
On the other hand, due to 'low budget' issues and a more old school approach (it's 80's, fellas), the character won't move much while fighting ... so this may not seem fit for a younger audience, used to a more fast paced animation.
Meanwhile, the plot itself is quite simple fo…
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Well, perhaps I'm one of those self-declared #1 fans. I can't tell exactly how many times I rewatched this series. All I know is that there were lots of times. So maybe now I can act like a kind of advertiser for the series.
I'd start saiying that Saint Seiya was my introdution to the world of anime. The story, the characters, the myth, the bloody and very impressive fights, the dilemmas the characters had to go through, all created a perfect and attractive piece of something I wasn't used to watching. I kinda compare it to the influence that the american music exerted over me. I wasn't a music enthusiast untill I heard Mariah Carey for the first time. I mean after watching Saint Seiya, I experienced the kind of excitement that an animation could 'cause and became an otaku.
Let me try my…
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Let me start by saying that this was the very first anime I watched complete. Truth is I was really young when I watched it the first time, but just recently when new OVAs came out I watch it once again.
Basically the story follows a group of 5 "Zodiac warriors" of Athena in their mission to save the world from the "evil" gods who want to destroy it. The anime heavily relies on Greek mythology, so the story follows a path trough Olympian’s gods.
The story is really absorbing and exciting, the fact that the 12 zodiac signs appears as a main part of the story sets the mood for a more personal and deeper involvement in the story (who doesn't want to watch he's own Zodiac sign win??). Whilst the animation is not up to what we are used nowadays, it’s quite decent for its time. The sound is…
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Saint Seiya was one of the very first anime series I watched as a young kid. Being that I might've had a bias towards this anime, I decided to watch it again not very long ago. While I admit this series is not as good as I remembered it, I belive it is still worth watching.
Saint Seiya had a brief run on Cartoon Network, but due to its violent content, it was moved to a very poor time and gradually lost any attention it received. If you followed it while they aired it or if you are just curious, I encourage you to give it a try.
The story follows the following paradigm: Athena, with the help of the zodiac saints, protects the Earth from the other gods whose wishes are only to do away with humanity. The use of Greek mythology is vastly employed throughout the story as other gods such as P…
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