Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya
Original title: Seinto Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac
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A digital remake from the Japanese anime classic Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (1986).A digital remake from the Japanese anime classic Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (1986).A digital remake from the Japanese anime classic Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (1986).
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- TriviaShun's depiction as a female changes the original mythology in which female Saints were forced to hide their faces in masks to renounce their femininity. The spin-off "Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho" also deviated from such rule by introducing the Saintias ("Holly Fighting Girls"), Athena's devoted handmaids.
- ConnectionsRemake of Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (1986)
- SoundtracksPegasus Seiya
Lyrics by Machiko Ryu (JASRAC)
English Lyrics by Tim Jensen ( JASRAC)
Music by Hiroaki Matsuzawa (JASRAC)
Nobuo Yamada (JASRAC)
Arranged and Performed by The Struts
(Universal Music)
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Abomination. Don't lower yourself like this, Toei.
Dumb, sanitized, Americanized, likely homophobic take on Saint Seiya. They should have not called it Saint Seiya if they only want to borrow the design characters and some scenes off the manga but getting the whole world view wrong or Americanized.
As if characters can't be grey, KotZ (not going to call it Saint Seiya) split Mitsumasa Kido into two characters, one good while another evil. The evil one is a military guy who doesn't believe in superstitions but want to use technology to take the power of the gods. ....wait, is this guy supposed to represent America? The theme of science/technology/rationality vs gods/magic/supernatural is to me clearly American. And even here it got Saint Seiya wrong: where as Cosmo in Saint Seiya is natural power that exists in every being, now Cosmo seems to be a supernatural power. Freak of nature. Unnatural. Totally different philosophy than original StS.
Also, they changed an iconic feminine, stereotype-breaking male character into a stereotypical token female character. Is it to avoid showing tender moments between two men like between Hyouga and Shun later? Or is it because the writer only understands stereotypes and can't accept a feminine male character who wears pink?
As if characters can't be grey, KotZ (not going to call it Saint Seiya) split Mitsumasa Kido into two characters, one good while another evil. The evil one is a military guy who doesn't believe in superstitions but want to use technology to take the power of the gods. ....wait, is this guy supposed to represent America? The theme of science/technology/rationality vs gods/magic/supernatural is to me clearly American. And even here it got Saint Seiya wrong: where as Cosmo in Saint Seiya is natural power that exists in every being, now Cosmo seems to be a supernatural power. Freak of nature. Unnatural. Totally different philosophy than original StS.
Also, they changed an iconic feminine, stereotype-breaking male character into a stereotypical token female character. Is it to avoid showing tender moments between two men like between Hyouga and Shun later? Or is it because the writer only understands stereotypes and can't accept a feminine male character who wears pink?
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- ramenbabi
- Jul 21, 2019
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- Saint Seiya: Los Caballeros del Zodiaco
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- Tokyo, Japan(Studio)
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