Saint Seiya

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Synonyms: Zodiac Knights

Japanese: 聖闘士星矢

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 28

Chapters: 110

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 3, 1985 to Nov 6, 1990

Genres: Action, Adventure

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Kurumada, Masami (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #2468²

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Popularity: #945

Members: 19,518

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Ranked #2468Popularity #945Members 19,518

MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Kurumada, Masami (Story & Art)

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Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus. He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fight for Athena.

(Source: ANN)

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Saint Seiya was published in English by VIZ Media as Knights of the Zodiac from January 21, 2004 to February 2, 2010. It has also been published in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Chinese.

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Mar 22, 2024

WhatAGoodShow

Recommended

As one of the earliest fighting shonen, Saint Seiya inspired many authors that would produce some of the most popular manga in the industry. In terms of story structure, it resembles Bleach. It has a golden power up that might have inspired many other ones in series such as Dragon Ball or Gundam. It created side characters with depth enough to challenge the popularity of the very main character who suppose to bring the victory home.

As the name suggest, the lead character is a saint called Seiya. Tho he is the main character, he isn't the sole focus of the series. It is about the ...

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Sep 1, 2022

rodmanii

Mixed Feelings

CONS
1 there is no tension because you know, from the begining, that the "ultimate attack" of the enemy isnt going to do shit
no one ever is defeated, or lose a limb, they just get covered in blood and continue like nothing despite being supposedly without their senses or with broken bones
this becomes evident by the end of the 12 houses arc and remains true till the end of the of manga

2 they explain a lot of their moves, everytime a bronze knight made a question to an enemy regarding his abilities this one
will always answer in detail about his technique, which i found to ... be really absurd

3 A lot of characters look alike, almost identical to the point that the only thing that helps to make them apart is their hair and armor

4 the fact that each and every opponent understimates the heroes, always, they never capitalize in their initial success they always let the fights drag, never attack the oponent when is vulnerable, or when they actually do it, in the few cases such thing ever happens, they are promptly interrupted for the convenience of the heroes

5 the enemy that thought himself far superior to the bronze knights happens to be shocked when, unexpectedly, the bronze knight actually manages to hurt him, this happens with every major enemy

6 a regular character acts like a walking deus ex machina, that will ALWAYS appear when the bronze knights are in danger or at disadvantage. The way the chracters are often saved due to a "pressure point" or the fact that "an attack wont work twice on a knight" feels cheap, like an artificial way to shield them from death. In general, every convenience that can happen in favor of the heroes happens, and every mistake the enemies can make they end up making

7 the characters are all flat, they are all good, pure, incapable of doing any kind of wrong they are at the end the same way they were at the start in regards to their personality

8 the manga never miss a chance to remind you how strong the main villian of the arc is and how there is no way for them to defeat him but they still survives all attacks without any major injury

9 the fights are usually just a panel of the character standing yelling his attack name with the enemies flying around him, this to illustrate that the foe has been hit with force, an actual drawing of a character throwing a punch or a kick and such move landing of the adversary is something that doesnt happen in this manga

PROS
1 i believe the designs of the armors are really well done, they look pretty good and an actual effort went on think how the armors transition between their folded (when in storage) and extended (when in use) states
2 the general theme of greek mythology is interesting, unique even, i dont recall ever reading any other manga with such themes
3 there are some points in the history that are interesting like: what happened to this characters sister? or how did this character end up being the vessel of such entity?

in short, i dont really recommend this work, the first two arcs (galaxian war and the 12 houses) are enjoyable but after that it repeats the same formula again and again till the end

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Feb 14, 2023

DionisiusMayr

Not Recommended

Brilliant idea, awful execution.

This is the best example of what not to do regarding "Power Levels".
The manga states clearly that there are 3 kinds of cloths: the weakest ones, bronze, the median silver, and the almighty golden cloths.
However, that makes absolutely no difference throughout the series. A bronze can easily kill a silver/gold and vice versa.
Besides, somewhat early on the manga you already see "speed of light" moves, and latter it gets tricky to make something stronger/faster than that. Imo, the series had almost no planning and definitely wasn't prepared for the success it achieved.

The battles are lame, to say the least.
You will be seeing ...

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