The 'enemy of the week' formula applied here alongside with the (let's call) 'tower of combat' (like in the infamous 'Game of Death' of the late Bruce Lee) were a very clever concept put on by Masami Kurumada on his manga, and that was for sure perfected in the anime series. Talking about the arcs, if you ask a Saint Seiya fan, probably one will point the Twelve Zodiac Temples arc as the highlight memory of the anime.
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Yes, I said the fillers messed up a lot of the series in the beggining, and some filler characters were obviously created for the solo porpouse of selling new figures.īut the anime production seemed to have learned from their own mistakes and later on, they developed an entire filler arc that not only gave Bandai some nice looking figures for selling but also created some good content and good filler characters that match the ones from the original source material, in the Asgard arc. The fillers not only alters some events from the original manga, but also creates some new characters that appear and disappear for the sake of the convenience of the plot and, after all, for the sake of the expensive licensed toys (figures, if you like it better).Īlthough Saint Seiya was not meant to be a cheap excuse for Bandai earn some good money on licensed toys, the beautiful and very well done adaptation of the ugly and lifeless armors from the manga into the shining armor designs of the anime (courtesy of master Shingo Araki) would inevitable create a paramount market for high quality toys for boys and grown men alike. The biggest mistake through the start of this series is the fillers. Meanwhile, the plot itself is quite simple for the most part, and goes in a very monodimensional way, but not tedious, since all the gimmicks keep you coming for more. So this may not seem fit for a younger audience, used to a more fast paced animation. 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. The fighting is generally interesting to watch, since (almost) every character has an unique gimmick or superpower. 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. 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. While there are some similarities, there is more involvment of more characters than in dbz (it doesn't always come down to helping the main character do everything). One last comment I'd like to make: This is not another dragon ball z. I believe they did a phenomenal job here. Most of the tracks help convey the series' feeling of the larger-than-life plot and battles in the entire story. For its time, and even compared to some more recent anime, the animation is quite decent. When it comes to animation, it shows that the the series was made in the 1980's. I do have to warn you, though, since there is quite an amount of death and blood throughout these fights. As the series progresses, the saints also acquire more power, which makes the fights all the more interesting. At first the matches are part of a game, but later on they develop into life and death situations. Regarding action, there is plenty of fighting from beginning to end. The bond that ties the saints with Athena is mere responsibility at first, but extends itself to friendship and love. The themes of friendship, loyalty and endurance are some of the most explored throughout this anime. With each fight they seem to acquire more knowledge and powers that help them mature from teenagers to men. While that may sound quite simple (and it is very much straight forward), the characters undergo a thorough process of development. The use of Greek mythology is vastly employed throughout the story as other gods such as Poseidon and characters such as Medusa make appearances. 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. If you followed it while they aired it or if you are just curious, I encourage you 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. While I admit this series is not as good as I remembered it, I belive it is still worth watching. Being that I might've had a bias towards this anime, I decided to watch it again not very long ago. Saint Seiya was one of the very first anime series I watched as a young kid.
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