Saint Seiya
Los Caballeros del Zodíaco
Los Caballeros del Zodíaco
A shounen manga by Masami Kurumada published in January 1986 to December 1990 with 28 volumes and the anime was aired in October 1986 to April 1989 with 114 episodes referring to the original run. It is about how every 300 years, the goddess Athena reincarnates in a human body to gather her warriors and protect this world from evilness. Those warriors are called knights or saints and they were chosen between a 100 orphan children to send them to a different countries and get their training and title of knight becoming Athena's saints. One of the orphan's, Seiya, was separated from her sister the day he was chosen to be one of the trainees to become a knight and she was lost so, seven years later he came back from Japan to Greece with the title of Pegasus bronze Saint looking for her lost sister. To find her, he made a deal with Saori Kido, the grand daughter of the man who sent all those kids to train: if he won in the Galaxian Wars and get the powerful gold cloth Sagittarius, she will start a search for her sister. An there is when he met the others bronze saints, Cygnus Hyoga, Dragon Shuryu, Shun Andromeda and Ikkie Phoenix. All of that began from that but it is kind of changing the way of almost everything.
This story is divided by arcs: Sanctuary, Poseidon and Hades thus the last one wasn't animated until 2004 or around (I can't remember ^^U) and with the still ongoing Ellysium. The Hades and the Ellysium ones had been being realized by OVA series. There is one anime arc that is not in the manga arcs, the Asgard, it was used to be a filler of 25 episodes while the author was continuing writing the Poseidon arc. Al thought it is called contemptuously a filler, the story was good enough making a wonderful work with the Holy Warriors of Odin and specially with their leader, Polaris Hilda (my fav female character ^o^).
There are three manga prequels starring the actual Gold Saints and the others, about the previous Holy War and the pasts Gold Saints:
Saint Seiya: Next Dimension
Saint Seiya Espisode G
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
The Saint Seiya movies:
Saint Seiya: The Movie (Saint Seiya Gekijoban/Jashin Eris) - released in 1987
Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth (Saint Seiya: Shinku No Shounen Densetsu) - released in 1988
Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods (Saint Seiya: Kamigami no Atsuki Tatakai) - released in 1988
The music was composed by Seiji Yokoyama, wonderful and marvelous, can't describe it any better because it just gets the deepest of my heart, there are like 13 cds and I love all of them and surely, it is my first on my top favourites OSTs.
OMG... it is hard to give my comment in here XD because this is the first anime I was so obsessed, I like it since I was 9 years old... I used to have a lot of merchandising that I still keep like posters and used to have stationary stuff, figures and a plastic bronze cloth of Cygnus, I still have three of the movies as well and nowadays I have one wall scroll hehe. Because of this story I began to read about the Greek mythology and memorize it haha and believe it or not, it also leaves very good messages about us, the humans beings, strength, courage, our feelings, friendship, love and how beautiful is to live in this world. It has marked my life forever, the best shounen ever!!!
"Saori-saaaaaaaaan!"
****
This story is divided by arcs: Sanctuary, Poseidon and Hades thus the last one wasn't animated until 2004 or around (I can't remember ^^U) and with the still ongoing Ellysium. The Hades and the Ellysium ones had been being realized by OVA series. There is one anime arc that is not in the manga arcs, the Asgard, it was used to be a filler of 25 episodes while the author was continuing writing the Poseidon arc. Al thought it is called contemptuously a filler, the story was good enough making a wonderful work with the Holy Warriors of Odin and specially with their leader, Polaris Hilda (my fav female character ^o^).
There are three manga prequels starring the actual Gold Saints and the others, about the previous Holy War and the pasts Gold Saints:
Saint Seiya: Next Dimension
Saint Seiya Espisode G
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
The Saint Seiya movies:
Saint Seiya: The Movie (Saint Seiya Gekijoban/Jashin Eris) - released in 1987
Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth (Saint Seiya: Shinku No Shounen Densetsu) - released in 1988
Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods (Saint Seiya: Kamigami no Atsuki Tatakai) - released in 1988
The music was composed by Seiji Yokoyama, wonderful and marvelous, can't describe it any better because it just gets the deepest of my heart, there are like 13 cds and I love all of them and surely, it is my first on my top favourites OSTs.
OMG... it is hard to give my comment in here XD because this is the first anime I was so obsessed, I like it since I was 9 years old... I used to have a lot of merchandising that I still keep like posters and used to have stationary stuff, figures and a plastic bronze cloth of Cygnus, I still have three of the movies as well and nowadays I have one wall scroll hehe. Because of this story I began to read about the Greek mythology and memorize it haha and believe it or not, it also leaves very good messages about us, the humans beings, strength, courage, our feelings, friendship, love and how beautiful is to live in this world. It has marked my life forever, the best shounen ever!!!
"Saori-saaaaaaaaan!"
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