Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter
SAINT SEIYA: THE HADES CHAPTER
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INTRODUCTION:
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Hi there everybody, I decided this time to post a thread about Saint Seiya, as well know Saint Seiya is one of the most popular animes around, you will find these informations at many other Saint Seiya's sites but sadly most of the sites are not english, mostly are French, anyway I would like to thank Silver Dragon and Thantee for the big help about the storyline and history, also thanks refers to Boddica and her cool site, hey girl I appreciate it... I can't post this thread without their help, Saint Seiya the hades saga is the best saga in entire Saint Seiya saga, the ova countains 12 episodes for Sancutry chapter then there will be more episodes in the Hades world... I only watched the first 4 episodes and they didn't released episode 5 yet so I am waiting... Anyway let's get going...
SAINT SEIYA started out in 1986 as a manga by Masami Kurumada and published in SHONEN JUMP, and have been reprinted in book form by Shonen as well. In October of 1986 SEIYA showed up on Japanese TV as an animated series produced by Toei Doga (a subsidary of Toei Animation -- Toei Doga, from what I understand, is the company actually responsible for producing the TV series; and the parent company is responsible for all the various anime- related goods). Originally intended to have a run of 52 or so episodes, it proved so popular that it went to 73 episodes before ending -- and was immediately followed by a second season of the series, which as I write this is still running. In addition, two short features and one longer one based on the series have been finished, and from what I hear more are in the works. It seems to have become something of a favorite among American fans of Japanese animation, too.
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MY REVIEW:
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The story: 10/10
The characters: 10/10
The graphics: 10/10
The musics: 10/10
Voice Cast: 10/10
Style: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
THE STORY:
Well some of you may don't like the story if they don't like the deep stories, I mean Saint Seiya have a really very big story, the story based on Greeks legends and other places, about temples...etc I know this sometime might be boring but yet the story is very deep and very cool at the same time, if you watched Saint Seiya before you will notice the different between the Hades saga and the other sagas of Saint Seiya, since the story is about ressurection, going to underworld facing monsters or group fighters, helping each others, betrayers...etc Fighting for future of the world as everybody thinks, but yet it's not only this, it's deeper than this, I can't say anything more since they didn't released the ova's but I have been reading the manga since years, and the manga story and the OVA are the same, and I guess it's the best... I can't say anything but as for me The Hades saga is the best saga and the story is very cool and I like it more than anything else, kinda like Nightwarriors stories, mix between angels, demons...etc I am sure many of you gonna like the story...
THE CHARACTERS:
As well know Saint Seiya have alot of characters, more than 50 characters, and more than 15 main characters... There are alot of groups and each group have at least one or more cool fighter, Saint Seiya features all type of characters, the emotinal, the serious, the funny and even the bad ones as well... As for me I would give it a full rate for the characters since they have my favorite character of all time in Hades saga and he is none other than Wyvern Radamanthus also alot others like Hypnos, Thanatos, Shaka, Saga, Kanon...etc I can't name all of them because there are too much and I almost everyone of them, even the heroes are pretty cool unlike other animes, I admit I usually like the villains but in this great series I also like the heros, I can name some of them like the Dragon Shiryu or Pheonix Ikki, you will be amazed to see their cloths, such an amazing designs on the characters, also don't forget that each character have his own speciality and have elements such as Wind element, Sun Element, Dark Element, Fire, water...etc Also the main villain have alot of great servents and he is a pretty cool villain, his name is Hades of course... Just see their stories and I am sure you are going to like these amazing characters... I know some of you might say if there are girls or not! Well they also have female fighters like Marin and Shina, also some villain females and Saori (Athena) is a female too, so both of girls and boys gonna like Saint Seiya's characters oh yeah not to forget that there is also old ones and kids just like Kiki... You all find all type of characters that's why I like the series...
THE ANIMATION:
Saint Seiya The Hades chapter has the coolest animation I've ever seen in animes, I know there are other animes have cool animation but this one is the best in my opinion, they use alot of anime style 3D which give it the cool effects, also not to forget that the graphics looks soooooooooo cool, you just see the old ones and see the Hades ova and you will notice the different between them, thanks to the OVA's group... Also the anime have alot of great backgrounds effects and there is no more same scene, they have used the computer stuff perfectly and I appreciate their efforts, just see when Milo fights against Kanon, man you will notice how the animation looks also don't forget to see the scene when Seiya transforms with his armors, man they used 3D on this and that's why it came out so good...The fighting scenes are pretty cool, it still has the old school feel, but better effects had been implemented. I love the way how Seiya did his Pegasus Meteor Punch on Cancer, it’s a must see! Not to mention about Shiryu doing his moves as well... Man I can't say anything more you just see and you will know what I mean
THE MUSICS:
Well I don't know what to say about this but as we all know Yokoyama Seiji was behind this, I think that Saint Seiya have the saddest musics of all time, they have a very cool musics, the openning and the ending, also not to mention the sad musics when Aldebran die or when Milo attacks Kanon, man the music outta there was very sad and I like it sooooo much, Saint Seiya not only have sad musics but they have other cool musics but yet all you have to wait untill they release episode 5 and 6, I can't wait anymore... I am sure you are going to like Saint Seiya's musics especialy the ones in the Hades chapter, but yet I miss Abel's sad theme, not to mention when Orpheous plays his music, I can't imagine that... Saint Seiya series have alot of great musics done by great artists so you can accept anything ;)
VOICE CAST:
Saint Seiya's seiyuu and voice actors are the greatest ones and the most popular ones, the voices are very cool and suites the character and his style, I mean just hear Radamanthus's voice, man as you know Radamanthus is a pure evil and his voice is damn pure evil too :D not to mention that Pegasus Seiya is voiced by the same man who voiced Amuro, he also voiced Hiroshi for Jeeg, Kyosuke for Orange Road, and Tuxedo Mask for Sailor Moon. Dragon Shiryuu is also voiced by the man who voiced Bright Noah, Shingo from Goshogun and of course Haran Banjo. Andromeda Shun is also voiced by the same man who voiced Vegita from DBZ and also Kou Uraki and that lesbian dude from Dancougar who loved Shapiro so much. There are many other great voice actors we've heard their voice at many other series, also Kanon and Saga's voice are very cool kinda remind me of the same actor of Raven from Virus Buster Serge... I don't think I can find a better voice actors and suites the character as well very easily, of course that's my opinion, everybody has his own opinion... But I am sure you will like these screams and shouting... "Shineeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"~Radamanthus
STYLE:
The Anime style is very cool, a very good idea, from this temple to that, fighting scenes here and there, it was pretty cool, and the thing I like they don't gives credits only to the heros, you know what Seiya doesn't appear in episode 3 and 4 even though he is the hero, not to mention the characters styles, every character have his own cool style, I like Shaka's style, kinda like indians style but it was pretty good, also Milo who doesn't trust anybody but at least he did it one and there are many others like Mu, Shiryu, Saga, Camus...etc Saint Seiya's style is very cool and I am sure you will be amazed after watching the new series...
OVERALL:
Well the new Saint Seiya series is my favorite anime at the current time, so what can I say!? I can only give it the full rating and it really deserves the full credits, I know some of you might not like the new series that's maybe because he don't know the story and what happened before, but if you watch it chapter after chapter I am sure you will like it so much, as I said before Saint Seiya have everything, cool characters, cool graphics, cool musics, cool style, cool voice actors...etc but the only bad thing is they calls some of the characters gods and that makes me sick... But as I said before we don't care about what they say because this will never affect on someone who believes in his religion, right guys!? anyway if you are stuck on what to buy!? Saint Seiya The Hades chapter or Dragon Ball Z, Inyusha, Flame Of Rekka...etc I suggest you to take Saint Seiya The Hades Chapter, but if this is your first time to see Saint Seiya then I don't suggest you I then suggest you to rent it first, so don't blame then, ok!? I can't wait to see episode 5... Guys you have to watch this great series
The History And The Story
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HISTORY:
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The anime series Saint Seiya had its debut in 1986, while the manga conceived by Kurumada Masami was published on the weekly magazine Shonen Jump.
Through a total amount of 28 mangas, 114 TV episodes and 4 movies, a charming story develops that tells about about the Great War between Good and Evil, which takes place every two or three hundred years: The queen Athena, who always reincarnates on the side of Good, fights back the Evil Powers (personified by the lords Poseidon, Hades, Eris and some others) with the help of her Saints, until the Cycle starts again.
The expression 'Saint' actually means 'Holy Warrior' here and has no similarity with the usual Christian saints. There are different degrees of Saints, who hold different power levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze Saints.
The Bronze Saints are usually the weakest warriors, even if they, too, are able to cause considerable havoc with their fighting techniques - a fact which is always proven especially by the series' main characters, the five Bronze Saints Pegasus Seiya, Cygnus Hyoga, Dragon Shiryu, Andromeda Shun and Phoenix Ikki.
Each Saint is attuned to a constellation - the twelve Gold Saints are bound to the Zodiacal signs, while Silver and Bronze Saints draw their powers from the remaining constellations.
The Saints' armours (named 'Holy Cloths' in the original Japanese version) have the characteristics of their respective constellations. One sees this best in their appearance when the Cloths are shown in their presentational form.
Saints receive their supernatural powers from a sort of energy, which comes both from within themselves and their guardian constellations; it is partly channelled through the Cloths, but also through the Saints, depending on the degree of their training and/or spiritual level.
This energy named 'Cosmo' is the force that allows Cygnus Hyoga to turn his adversary into an ice-cube, or that can launch an opponent together with Dragon Shiryu directly into the Earth's orbit (sic!). The level of control over their Cosmo is also what makes the different kinds of Saints - Gold Saints are able to employ their 'seventh sense' at will, they have full control over the Ultimate Cosmo, which Silver or Bronze Saints only occasionally attain.
Nonetheless, Pegasus Seiya and his four friends belong to a group of Bronze Saints, who in desperate situations are able to go beyond themselves. In these cases they can use their Cosmo like the Gold Saints do - a fact that surprised quite a lot of the Gold Saints during the battles.
Saint Seiya takes place in a not too distant future (other sources speak also of a parallel world) after a not exactly identified catastrophe, and the anime consists of three chapters:
The Fight at Athena's Sanctuary (The Sanctuary Chapter)
The Warriors of Asgard (The Asgard Chapter)
Poseidon and his Warriors (The Poseidon Chapter)
Saint Seiya begins with an international Tournament in Tokyo, the 'Galaxian Wars', in which the best fighters of the world compete. This Tournament is organised by the Graude Foundation (the largest Asian business company) under the lead of thirteen-year-old Kido Saori, and the vacant Sagittarius Cloth is exposed as a prize. Among the fighters are Pegasus Seiya, Dragon Shiryu, Cygnus Hyoga and Andromeda Shun, who were trained in different and extremely hard training camps during the previous years to become Bronze Saints.
In the Tournament (like the whole series) we see a lot of hard and bloody battles, but before the tournament is over, the Sagittarius Cloth is stolen - and by no one other but Andromeda Shun's elder brother Phoenix Ikki.
Ikki, who went to Death Queen Island, the hardest of the training camps, instead of the delicate Shun, was virtually brainwashed during his fights to obtain the Phoenix Cloth. Thus he now fights for the evil side with some further Black Saints.
About half of the first chapter deals with the attempt to regain the Sagittarius Cloth, and the aforementioned Bronze Saints have to confront stronger and stronger opponents - mainly Silver Saints.
Finally, the queen Athena manifests in Kido Saori, and at last we learn something about the real background of the story.
When Athena reincarnated in a baby's body about 13 years ago, there was a caertain person who didn't like the fact that the queen was about to receive her true power and tried to kill the baby. Gold Saint Gemini Saga wanted to attain the power himself. Because of this, he killed the previous Master of Sanctuary, Aries Shion and put himself - under the Pope's practical mask which didn't reveal his true face - at the place of the Master. (In the manga there are hints about the fact that Gemini Saga was corrupted by Hades, the Underworld's lord, in order to get rid of Athena - in Volume 22, one of the Specters, Zelos, mentions that the dagger Saga used was given to him by Hades.)
However, Saga's attempt to kill the baby was prevented by Gold Saint Sagittarius Aiolos, who rescued the helpless Athena and fled with her out of Sanctuary without a moments' hesitation. During his flight, he was mortally wounded, but however he managed to hand over Athena and the Sagittarius Cloth to Kido Mitsumasa, the Graude Foundation's owner, just in time.
Kido Mitsumasa ordered the abduction of a hundred children from several orphanages and forced them to train to become fighters, so that they could guard the queen as Athena's Saints. (In the manga we learn that these 100 children all were begotten by Kido Mitsumasa - who might also be regarded as Zeus' incarnation - and so they could be considered as demilords, which makes their supernatural powers more plausible.)
After this revelation, Athena decides that now it's about time to retake Sanctuary. This means she has to go back to Greece with her best warriors (Seiya, Hyoga, Shiryu, Shun and Ikki) and try to retake her seat of power.
Unfortunately, this is complicated by the fact that first of all the Bronze Saints have to defeat the twelve Gold Saints, who guard Sanctuary and who have been convinced by Ares/Saga, that the late Sagittarius Saint was a traitor who had killed Athena, thus Kido Saori could only be an imposter.
The second chapter exists only in the TV series and not in the manga. It was added so that the manga could again catch up as the anime advanced faster than the manga and it deals with Asgard's Warriors. Polaris Hilda, a priestess of Odin (some sources tell also of her as a Valkyrie), who is entrusted with the task of keeping the Northpole's ice frozen, receives a ring (incidentally by one of Athena's other favourite opponents) which bestows a great power upon her that corrupts her completely. She sends one of her Warriors to annihilate Athena and her Saints. Since he fails, Athena and her warriors leave for Asgard, in order to see to the situation in the North by themselves.
The third chapter once more follows the manga's storyline, and so Athena and her warriors once more have to fight against a Greek lord, namely Poseidon, who's goal is either to rule the world together with Athena or to drown it. And since he's more or less sincere in his love ambitions towards Athena, he offers her the choice between marrying him or being killed. Obviously there are our well-known five young men who want to prevent this.
With the end of the third chapter, the anime Saint Seiya was finished on April, 11th, 1989, and the Hades Chapter, already well on the way as manga, was never aired on TV - even if it is by far the best section of the Saint Seiya saga in the eyes of the fans. It deals with Athena and her Saints' encounter with Hades and his 108 Spectres in the Underworld.
The following story, Tenkai-Hen, which was planned to take place after the Hades Chapter, and should lead the Saints into a battle against the lords in Heaven. This tale, however, was never published, not even as manga, since the readers' interest sank and the editors wanted to get a new successful story by Kurumada Masami. Unfortunately the next story turned out to be a flop, just as Kurumada's following projects could never surpass Saint Seiya's earliest success. Only with the current series B'tX (15 mangas published up to November, 1999) he managed to draw another successful story.
Let's take a look at the main characters. Here they are:
Pegasus Seiya - He's the leader of the Bronze Saints' and certainly not always the brightest, but he has a strong fighting spirit and endurance. He was trained by Silver Saint Aquila Marin, who is one of the few female Saints. In the course of time it becomes clear that he has a special affinity to the Sagittarius Cloth since it defends him on its own initiative in some precarious situations.
Cygnus Hyoga - The cool blond from Russia is the Saint of the constellation Swan (lat. Cygnus), and spent his training in Siberia, where Crystal Saint (according to the manga, Gold Saint Aquarius Camus) taught him different attacking techniques, all resulting in the victim being thoroughly frozen. Similar to his attacks, he's rather cool and reserved, and he moreover suffers from a considerable mother-complex, since he watched her drown in ashipwreck ship right before his eyes.
Dragon Shiryu - As the name already indicates, he's the Saint of the constellation Dragon. He was taught his fighting techniques by Gold Saint Libra Roshi/Dohko in Rozan, China. In the anime series, Shiryu seems to be the one who takes by far the worst punishment by his opponents - but he never gives up. He's also the one among the five Bronze Boys, who lose his Cloth the most often, and then shows off his well-built body... :)))
Andromeda Shun - The cutest among the Bronze Boys looks almost like a girl, and the pink Andromeda Cloth, does nothing to change this impression. Shun was trained by Silver Saint Cepheus Albiore on Andromeda Island and received the Andromeda Cloth, which shows a considerable life of its own in comparison to the other Cloths. Shun is not particularly fond of fighting. However, if he is forced to, he can gain his power not only from the Andromeda constellation, but furthermore from the whole Andromeda Galaxy, a fact which makes him one of the strongest Saints of all.
Phoenix Ikki - He's Andromeda Shun's big brother ("nii-san"), and contrary to Shun, he doesn't hesitate to beat up his opponents badly. In the anime series, the he mostly appears on the scene to save his young brother when Shun is in danger of losing to his adversaries. Ikki was trained by a sadistic and brutal master on Death Queen Island, and so he still keeps some traumata, which are made worse by the fact that his Cloth receives its powers from death and destruction (but also from rebirth).
Athena (Kido Saori) - Since she was brought up in a more than super-rich house thanks to Kido Mitsumasa, Saori is (at least in the beginning) an awfully spoilt, 13-years-old girl, who takes great pleasure in maltreating the young Saints trained at the Graude Foundation. In the course of time, when Athena manifests more and more strongly in her, she becomes more bearable, too. It seems that her main task in the series is to be captured by some hostile lord who threatens to kill her within 12 hours, so that her Saints have to save her while taking great troubles and risks. In the end she usually manages to employ her divine Cosmo to save the day and everything is (more or less) in order once more.
Saint Seiya is a series in which fights play a very important role, and blood flows freely, too. Nonetheless, it's not a splatter series about sending as many opponents as possible to death in the most disgusting ways, in Saint Seiya the Saints fight for their friends, their ideals and for freedom. Their motto is to never give up, never lose self-confidence, and even sacrifice themselves to protect the ones they love.
These values are probably the reason that helped Saint Seiya to become a great success particularly in Latin-American countries, Italy, Spain and France (There as Les chevaliers du zodiaque, "The Zodiac Knights" ).
In Japan, the audience's interest slackened more and more during the course of the series, which probably was due to the fact that the simple repetition of the plot was not 100 percent satisfactory.
If one would be slightly mischievous, one could resume Saint Seiya in the following way: The five Bronze Boys run up an endless amount of steps during the series and movies, they are usually pushed down once and again, but they somehow rise again every time, they have to fight with their opponents on the way who usually die after their battle, and only five minutes before the end, they actually manage to save Athena from the impending death.
On the other hand, the characters are really nice, and we can even sympathize with the opponents' motives, so that one is often very sorry when the Bronze Boys succeed (good examples of this are the fight between Dragon Shiryu and Capricorn Shura, or the fight Cygnus Hyoga vs. Aquarius Camus as well).
Finally, we mustn't forget the wonderful soundtrack by Yokoyama Seiji either, which turns Saint Seiya into a marvellous event - I've watched some episodes at least a dozen times only to listen to the excellent music pieces! :)
There are also some rumors about a new Saint Seiya chapters called Zeus or Tenkai Han Chapter... I can't wait more to see these new chapters...
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THE STORY:
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1743 : in the Age of the Enlightenment, the prince of darkness comes back on earth.... Hades declares war on the whole mankind, just by disgust towards us. 79 Cloths had then an owner... which was a the highest number ever reached. However, almost all of them were defeated by Hades' warriors, called Specters, well protected by their armors, named Surplices. Only two Saints survived this terrible fight : Aries Shion (another descendant of the people of Mu), who will be named later Pope (the very one who will be killed by Saga some 230 years later), and Libra Dohko, Shiryu's future master, who Athena ordered to guard the tower (situated near the Five Ancient Pikes) in which she had locked the 108 Specters' souls...Hades came to take his revenge only in 1973... waiting to reincarnate in Shun's body, he perverts Saga's soul (which was somewhat insane already) and prompts him to take the lead of the Sanctuary, in order to prepare his coming. The Saints foiled his plans...the day when the Specters will invade the Sanctuary to neutralize Athena is coming near... most of our brave Saints will die in this imminent war, but they will do anything to protect their fellow humans, and their courage will turn them into lords...
Screen Shots: Episode 1 & 2
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الرسالة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة DarkLordDragon
SAINT SEIYA: THE HADES CHAPTER
The story: 10/10
The characters: 10/10
The graphics: 10/10
The musics: 10/10
Voice Cast: 10/10
Style: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
ما شاء الله كله علامات كامله......خلاص بقراه الليله وبعطيك رايي فيه;-)
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ما شاء الله كله علامات كامله......خلاص بقراه الليله وبعطيك رايي فيه;-)
بس ما بتفهمين عدل اذا ما شفتي القديم...
And as I said before, some of you might not like it because it's a fighting fantasy anime, so not all of you gonna like it, but as for me I guess it's the best because I have read the manga too and it's the same story...
