Apr 15, 5:24 AM
SAINT SEIYA - OUR TRIBUTE POST AND COLLECTION
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Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen, Saint Seiya, Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen, Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Elysion-hen
I'm writing this post as a tribute to one of the anime which has been representing me the most since I was just a kid and that I have perhaps watched the longest time in my entire life, Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada.
I still remember being around 1989, the first time I saw on TV and got in love with this series on TV. It was more unique than rare in fact (and I honestly believe still is today), to see such incredibly well-drawn characters in an anime, with armors so meticulously depicted and which made their knights (in the anime referred to as Saints), heroes of unparalleled value and aesthetic beauty (especially the Gold Saints, possibly among the most acclaimed ones).
So I leave you imagine the great joy for me as a child to discover one day that in toy shops they started to be on sale in form of fully articulated actions figures, both the Bronze and the Gold Saints (and later even the Asgard and Marine ones), equipped with a bare body and even a totem where, piece by piece, you could assemble all the various armors (in the anime referred to as "cloth") in order to give life and recreate your favorite Saint (now obsolete and generally referred to as Saint Seiya vintage, compared to the modern versions called Myth and Myth EX).
Even now, opening a box Saint Seiya vintage and reassembling the various pieces one by one gives me an emotion that is difficult to describe, taking me back to a distant past in which I often imagined with the eyes of a child of being part of this enchanted world full of heroes with special powers, being the latter the only real ambition that accompanied my afternoons with my school mates.
In this regard, I always felt a particular love for the Gold Saints thanks to their beauty as well as deep characterization of each one (and in part for the Silver Saints like Eris or the same Marin Castalia and Shaina Tisifone), while perhaps less interest for those from Asgard saga, as I'm not a great lover of snowy atmospheres whilst also feeling a bit some lack of stylistic coherence over the cloths (to which with the Gold Saint I was very used to) despite their splendid characterization.
As for the Marines of Neptune Poseidon, I'm again in great love with their aesthetic and cloths almost as much as with the gold cloths, even though I found their characterization to be perhaps less articulated and profound.
Finally, I found the epilogue in the kingdom of Hades very atmospheric, a last great battle of the classic historical series which pushed our 5 Bronze Saints, Seiya, Shun, Hyoga, Ikki and Shiryu towards an even more marked and fascinating metaphysical dimension with one of the most remarkable character in my opinion being Aries Shion.
In general, however, it persists inside myself a particular love for the first episodes during the galactic war and the legendary climb of the 12 houses of the Gold Saints in an attempt to save Athena from certain death due to Betelgeuse's evil arrow.
In this regard, I find even remarkable to think that this historical and so acclaimed moment of the series was perhaps not even that significant, constituting just a secondary battle to dismiss (spoiler alert here) the evil plans of Gemini Saga in the cloth of fake Arles Pope and his brother Kanon, by not even involving the presence of a god on the enemy front, but despite everything being so well characterized and perhaps the most epic moment of the entire series.
My special Saints if you are wondering? First one an easy guess from my profile icon, Aries Mur, to which I wish to add Virgo Shaka for his fascinating look, blond hair and so much spiritual dangerous power based somewhat on concept derived from Buddhism.
To them, I would also add Libra Dokho thanks to the huge amount of weapons and the 2 big shields which made its vintage action figure counterpart so cool to see once assembled.
In regard to the 5 Bronze Saints, I don't have any particular favorite saint, and I generally appreciated all of them regardless.
One last mention even goes to the impressive work done for the italian dub, which really added an extra gear to this anime with its somewhat poetical style. Hard to forget about the italian voices of Pegasus, Crystal, Andromeda, Sirio and Phoenix, including of course those of all the other saints. So a special thanks in this regard goes to Ivo de Palma (Pegasus Seiya), Marco Balzarotti (Sirio Shiryu), Luigi Rosa (Crystal Hyoga), Andrea de Nisco (Andromeda Shun), Tony Fuochi (Phoenix Ikki), Dania Cericola (Athena), Felice Invernici (Virgo Shaka), Enrico Carabelli (Aries Mur, Libra Dohko, Scorpio Milo and many others) and all the many others dubbers who contributed to this fantastic work!
To conclude my little tribute, I wish to mention the Gold Saints once, in honor of their memory that I keep carrying in my heart since then (not for nothing my profile icon), Aries Mur, Taurus Aldebaran, Gemini Saga, Cancer DeathMask, Leo Aiolia, Virgo Shaka, Libra Dohko, Scorpio Milo, Sagittarius Aiolos, Shura Capricorn, Aquarius Camus and Pisces Aphrodite.
Thanks for being with me every time I needed you Saints, in my most difficult moments of my life. Spending my times with you as a kid (and later as an adult), has been such a pleasant part of my life.
Thanks for reading!
Mur CuorediVirgo
I still remember being around 1989, the first time I saw on TV and got in love with this series on TV. It was more unique than rare in fact (and I honestly believe still is today), to see such incredibly well-drawn characters in an anime, with armors so meticulously depicted and which made their knights (in the anime referred to as Saints), heroes of unparalleled value and aesthetic beauty (especially the Gold Saints, possibly among the most acclaimed ones).
So I leave you imagine the great joy for me as a child to discover one day that in toy shops they started to be on sale in form of fully articulated actions figures, both the Bronze and the Gold Saints (and later even the Asgard and Marine ones), equipped with a bare body and even a totem where, piece by piece, you could assemble all the various armors (in the anime referred to as "cloth") in order to give life and recreate your favorite Saint (now obsolete and generally referred to as Saint Seiya vintage, compared to the modern versions called Myth and Myth EX).
Even now, opening a box Saint Seiya vintage and reassembling the various pieces one by one gives me an emotion that is difficult to describe, taking me back to a distant past in which I often imagined with the eyes of a child of being part of this enchanted world full of heroes with special powers, being the latter the only real ambition that accompanied my afternoons with my school mates.
In this regard, I always felt a particular love for the Gold Saints thanks to their beauty as well as deep characterization of each one (and in part for the Silver Saints like Eris or the same Marin Castalia and Shaina Tisifone), while perhaps less interest for those from Asgard saga, as I'm not a great lover of snowy atmospheres whilst also feeling a bit some lack of stylistic coherence over the cloths (to which with the Gold Saint I was very used to) despite their splendid characterization.
As for the Marines of Neptune Poseidon, I'm again in great love with their aesthetic and cloths almost as much as with the gold cloths, even though I found their characterization to be perhaps less articulated and profound.
Finally, I found the epilogue in the kingdom of Hades very atmospheric, a last great battle of the classic historical series which pushed our 5 Bronze Saints, Seiya, Shun, Hyoga, Ikki and Shiryu towards an even more marked and fascinating metaphysical dimension with one of the most remarkable character in my opinion being Aries Shion.
In general, however, it persists inside myself a particular love for the first episodes during the galactic war and the legendary climb of the 12 houses of the Gold Saints in an attempt to save Athena from certain death due to Betelgeuse's evil arrow.
In this regard, I find even remarkable to think that this historical and so acclaimed moment of the series was perhaps not even that significant, constituting just a secondary battle to dismiss (spoiler alert here) the evil plans of Gemini Saga in the cloth of fake Arles Pope and his brother Kanon, by not even involving the presence of a god on the enemy front, but despite everything being so well characterized and perhaps the most epic moment of the entire series.
My special Saints if you are wondering? First one an easy guess from my profile icon, Aries Mur, to which I wish to add Virgo Shaka for his fascinating look, blond hair and so much spiritual dangerous power based somewhat on concept derived from Buddhism.
To them, I would also add Libra Dokho thanks to the huge amount of weapons and the 2 big shields which made its vintage action figure counterpart so cool to see once assembled.
In regard to the 5 Bronze Saints, I don't have any particular favorite saint, and I generally appreciated all of them regardless.
One last mention even goes to the impressive work done for the italian dub, which really added an extra gear to this anime with its somewhat poetical style. Hard to forget about the italian voices of Pegasus, Crystal, Andromeda, Sirio and Phoenix, including of course those of all the other saints. So a special thanks in this regard goes to Ivo de Palma (Pegasus Seiya), Marco Balzarotti (Sirio Shiryu), Luigi Rosa (Crystal Hyoga), Andrea de Nisco (Andromeda Shun), Tony Fuochi (Phoenix Ikki), Dania Cericola (Athena), Felice Invernici (Virgo Shaka), Enrico Carabelli (Aries Mur, Libra Dohko, Scorpio Milo and many others) and all the many others dubbers who contributed to this fantastic work!
To conclude my little tribute, I wish to mention the Gold Saints once, in honor of their memory that I keep carrying in my heart since then (not for nothing my profile icon), Aries Mur, Taurus Aldebaran, Gemini Saga, Cancer DeathMask, Leo Aiolia, Virgo Shaka, Libra Dohko, Scorpio Milo, Sagittarius Aiolos, Shura Capricorn, Aquarius Camus and Pisces Aphrodite.
Thanks for being with me every time I needed you Saints, in my most difficult moments of my life. Spending my times with you as a kid (and later as an adult), has been such a pleasant part of my life.
Thanks for reading!
Mur CuorediVirgo
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