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Saint Seiya is an anime series about a group of mystical warriors called the 'Saints' who have adopted various constellations as their totems of power. These Saints, both good and evil, vie for control of the Sacred Cloth in the grand contest known as the Galactic Wars. It is based on the manga of the same title drawen by Masami Kurumada. The series first premiered on Japan's TV Asahi on Oct. 11th, 1986 and ran for 114 episodes.

The series is currently being aired on Cartoon Network every Saturday night as an edited-for-TV version called Knights of the Zodiac.

The main characters are:

Notable antagonist:

Saga, Master of Sanctuary (Ares) who also posseses Gemini gold cloth. Kanon, Saga's twin brother, who cursed him. Hades, King of the Hell.

Summary

The episode began with a tournament among bronze knights to decide the new rightful owner of Sagittarius gold cloth, when suddenly a group of dark knights led by Ikki stole its nine parts. As the saga advance, they discover the network of evilness is deeper and deeper.

Other Information

Saint Seiya is a famous Japanese Animation from Masami Kurumada about warriors called 'Saints', whose task is to protect Athena, the Goddess of peace, and to fight against evil forces. There are also evil Saints in the story who are on the hostile side. It is said that all 200 years the Evil will come back to earth and will try to rule the whole world with a helping hand from their forces. In the same time, the Goddess Athena will be reincarnated, to prevent the Evil from accesion to power on earth, and to save the world. The story has five main chacters: Seiya the Pegasus Saint, Shiryu the Dragon Saint, Shun the Andromeda Saint, Hyoga the Cygnus Saint and Ikki the Phoenix Saint. The task of those Saints is to protect Athena and to fight against the evil forces and defeat them. The Saints are wearing armours, which they have deserved after a some years of hard training. Their armours protects them from external impacts and give them also some special abilities. The armour represents a star constellation, from which a Saint also gains his power, called 'cosmo'. For newbies: The cosmo of a Saint is like an aura. According to the story, everybody has got a cosmo, which he/she is able to discover.

The story (i.e. the anime-series) consists of 114 episodes and can be basically divided in seven main parts:

  • The tournament for the gold armour of the Sagittarius
  • In search of the stolen parts of the gold armour of the Saggitarius
  • The Battle against the silver Saints and other kind of close encounters
  • The Combat at the Sanctuary
  • The Fight in Asgard
  • The Battle in Poseidon's Kingdom

The first 13 episodes of an OVA set in Hades's Kingdom were released in November 2002.

Saint Seiya brings the subject friendship and "holding together" in an amazing way to you. The feature also demonstrates that the "bad guys" can have their good sides and they needn't to be only mad, dump and ugly. The enemies are not just there acting as "cannon-fodder", but they are fighting for an ideal they believe in, thus they have a reason to be, and this makes them not less interesting than the main characters.

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