#Saint seiya hades fanart series#

#Saint seiya hades fanart series#

Wishing to repeat their success with Sailor Moon, the series was licensed and dubbed in English as Knights of the Zodiac (which is actually the name the series has in most of the world outside Japan) by DIC Entertainment and shown on Cartoon Network, but the plot and characters didn't receive very good treatment. These arcs were Asgard, Poseidon, Hades, and Heaven. Later arcs tend to follow this form, with a series of fights to reach the offending god or mortal intent on bringing about a worldwide calamity while working under a time limit, failure leading to Athena's death or the destruction of the world. time which the Saints must use to defeat the other eleven Gold Saints and use the shield on the statue of Athena to save their goddess from death. Due to some treachery, Athena/Saori is hit by an arrow powerful enough to fell a god in twelve hours. Eventually Saori and all the Bronze Saints decide to challenge the Pope directly, and travel to the Sanctuary. Midway through the battles against the Silver Saints, it is revealed that Saori is the reincarnation of Athena and leadership of Sanctuary is hers by right, which at the time is under control of the nefarious Pope (no, not that one), who wants her dead so he can claim her position as protector of the Earth. The story in the manga and anime differs considerably following Ikki's defeat, but it centers in the Bronze Saints facing several other saints sent by the Sanctuary with orders to kill them (and in the anime only, recover the Sagittarius Cloth helmet, the only part of the Cloth the good guys were able to keep). Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga and Shun (among others) meet there to fight for it, but before the winner can be decided the Gold Cloth is stolen away by the Black Saints, renegade saints led by Ikki. Saori Kido, heiress to a vast empire, holds special games to see which among the bronze saints deserves the Sagittarius Gold Cloth: an armor so powerful it is considered to confer the power of a Weapon of Mass Destruction to its wearer.

To make matters even better, he always came back STRONGER. Also, possibly immortal/unkillable since whenever people think he's dead, he'll keep on coming back. Most likely to use Cool and Unusual Punishment and Fate Worse than Death with his psychic attacks. Ikki The Phoenix Saint (Fire and Rebirth): The loner in the Loners Are Freaks sense, he's Shun's over-protective older brother and the Big Bad in the Galaxian Wars Arc.He doesn't snap very often, but when it does happen, SNAP he does! Shun The Andromeda Saint (Chains, Wind and Energy): He has perhaps the most destructive power of the core five, and the most restraint on using it.Each armor is also an Empathic Weapon and has some amount of choice in who wears it and whether they deserve to use it, as well as at least one special property. There are three grades of Cloths: Bronze, Silver, and Gold with each grade being far more powerful and resilient than the last. It tells the story of five friends who serve the reincarnation of the goddess Athena, Saori Kido, in her quest to reclaim her place as ruler of the Saints, a group of warriors themed after the Western Zodiac and pretty much every charted constellation.Īll saints receive a Cloth, a sculpture of their signature constellation that transforms into functional battle armor. Saint Seiya began as a manga written by Masami Kurumada and soon became an anime produced by Toei Animation it would become launcher of the 'pretty boys in armor' subgenre of shonen fighting manga/anime (shows that followed it include Ronin Warriors, Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato, and even Mobile Suit Gundam Wing if you replace 'armor' with 'mecha'.