Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

Zeus had a daughter named Athena, the goddess of war. A group of youths flocked to Athena fighting to protect her amidst heroic battles as her "Saints". Their proof of being a Saint laid with the battle protector known as Sacred Cloth.

After a virtual eternity, a new struggle is about to unfold now again over the Cloth. A boy named Seiya has crossed way over to Greece to undergo the training to become a Saint and obtained the Cloth, Bronze cloth, the lowest position among Saints. Every Saint takes a constellation as their tutelary god. And Seiya's guardian star is Pegasus. Now, the saints gather together from all over the world to participate in the "Galatic War" - championship of Saints, aiming at the Gold Cloth, the symbol of ruler of the Saints. The curtain for Galatic War has been cut open. During the death battle between the Saints, Phoenix, the Black Saint, suddenly appeared on the scene and runs off with Gold Cloth in front of a full house in his ambition to become ruler of the world. Seiya and his fellow bronze cloth warriors go after Phoenix and his "Shadow Army" to retrieve the lost Gold Cloth...

The battles waged among the saints, the strongest young men on earth, begin now!

(Source: Toei Animation)

Phoenix, Ikki Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Dragon, Shiryuu Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Pegasus, Seiya Main

Morita, Masakazu Japanese

Andromeda, Shun Main

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Cygnus, Hyouga Main

Miura, Hiroaki Japanese

Kido, Saori Main

Orikasa, Fumiko Japanese

Virgo, Shaka Supporting

Mitsuya, Yuuji Japanese

Gemini, Saga Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Aries, Muu Supporting

Yamazaki, Takumi Japanese

Leo, Aiolia Supporting

Tanaka, Hideyuki Japanese

Ashino, Yoshiharu Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Tanabe, Yasuhiro Episode Director

Pettini, Emmanuel Script

Del Greco, Marcelo Script

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Jul 19, 2019

Zetto22

Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

I just loved it! They changed the plot correctly, updating and making everything more modern.
As a huge fan of the original series, i can say this remake is great.

They altered slow parts to make everything more dynamic, discarding unnecessary scenes. They changed the background of some main characters for better ones and rescued the original manga backgrounds for others.

The animation would be better in 2D, but if it is to suffer as we suffer in Saintia Shô with poor quality for lack of investment, 3D is the best option. However, the CGI is not bad at all.
I still think that Shun's sex change TERRIBLE and ... unforgivable.

EDIT: After finishing the serie i reach this conclusion: The story adapted from the manga is very good, better than original anime.
But the original story created for this reimagination is terrible and full of script holes.

In the end, I still consider this a great reimagination of the classic. Cant wait for new episodes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 28, 2020

dwide666

Mixed Feelings

You can rest assured, this is an analysis by the technical side, without revealing the plot of the story. Anyone who knows Saint Seiya in the manga knows that his story is more coherent than his anime version. Here the screenwriter tried to make the story shorter and with adaptations for our current era. In some ways it was interesting, but it took away the emotion of the dramatic moments, here it is understood that the screenwriter wanted to make this version more childish and light, something that nostalgic people will not enjoy. We don't know if the budget for the series went down, but ... the characters' hair textures are just mediocre. Making them look like clay dolls. The fact that they make the story shorter makes it less sentimental than its first version. It had the potential to be something bigger and better, but it seems that the other characters are mere ornaments. Everything revolves around Saori and Seiya. Anyway very weak compared to its first version.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 26, 2020

curvedtree

Not Recommended

This show was doomed when Netflix changed Shun's gender, but Toei did that in Saint Seiya's last film with Scorpio Miro and even that Miro didn't participate a lot there were some that turned up their noses, yet Netflix thought it would be a good idea: "REPRESENTATION". They changed the lore, they added a new story, yet they couldn't add a 6th saint to represent a female, they had to change Shun.

Fast forward to its launch, it was a car crash, people hating it, people trying to understand it, a minority liking it, the score here - and anywhere else really - speaks for themselves, ... Netflix's Knights of the Zodiac is a complete failure.

I barely remember the first 6 episodes, but remarkable moments were the speaking manhole (talk about comedy relief), the Galactic Tournament on a desert, a front of army fighting a handful of saints able to move above the speed of sound, all that because they wanted to add that general that no one will even bother to remember the name, because 1: it is not lore; 2: we know he will be irrelevant anyway.

So let's talk about those 6 new fresh episodes, the half dozen they had 6 months to rework after the catastrophic release of the first half. It is the same leachate, kudos for at least showing a few moments of the Silver Saints Arc and Aioria's fight against Seiya. And here, once again, they changed the lore, let's start with Gemini Saga and the Pope in the same room when the order to kill Athena comes (if you watched the original you know that Saga killed the original Pope - the one that gave Seiya his Pegasus's cloth, which happened to be Shion a saint from 273 years ago that had direct contact with Athena, so, no, Shion wouldn't order Saori's death - and took his place asking Capricorn Shura to kill Sagittarius Aioros); Shina not wearing her mask (despite being obligatory for female Saints, because after Seiya saw her face on the beginning a female Saint has to either love or kill the man that saw her face, that's why Marin wears a mask, it is not to confuse viewers that she might be Seika. Not only that when OG Shun was training there was a female Saint with him, Chameleon June and she wore a mask too) and her consequent protection of Seiya against Aioria's attack, it wasn't because she became noble out of nowhere, Shina loves Seiya, the anime shows that, the show doesn't (even though they tend to put emphasis in the "romance" between Seiya and Saori); I don't like to repeat myself but the general that no one cares, after 3 episodes with some of the Silver Saints and Leo Aioria, all the rest are developed with the (fake) Black Knights which are general Cassius copies that don't add anything to the story, just to fulfil the idiocy that was implementing a new useless arc to the story, even the Steel Saints from the anime filler had more personality than the Black Knights, besides that they are powered by a gigantic wireless battery powered by "cosmos", how did the general was able to trap an immaterial energy that resides within a person in a material object is beyond me, I guess Netflix thought it made sense, by the way, even after this battery is destroyed, the general is able to enter "Iron Monger Armour" - that was totally an Iron Man rip off - and has energy somehow (even before getting hit by the Bronze Saints's blows (btw he can also absorb cosmo thanks to science).

But the cherry on top of the sundae is the REPRESENTATION that Netflix felt necessary to put: female Shun doesn't do anything, female Shun can't stand on their own whilst the males are fighting, female Shun just doesn't do anything. Congratulations Netflix, you defeated the patriarchy and all it took was to change the gender of an anime character.

They tried to hint a season two with the Gold Saints, when Sagitta Ptolemy hits Saori with an arrow, but how can Ptolemy use the same kind of portal that Mu used (and here it is another lore changing, since only Mu and people from Jamir can teleport)?

Pathetic show, there could have been a better adaptation, they could have added a new saint, someone like Yuna from Omega that doesn't want to follow the mask rule; that general arc was uncalled for, in 12 episodes they could have worked with the Galactic Tournament, Black Saints (the real ones) and Silver Saints; changing Shina (before mentioned) and using Saga as one of the saints that attacked Aioros is another stupidity (btw I even forgot to mention, Aioros was branded as someone that was trying to kill Athena, after his death by Shura the Pope would deny Saori as Athena and say that the real Athena was within the Sanctuary, protected).

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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