The apotheosis of anime Mythos.
The greatest of the modern myths, and the most resplendent in both absurdity and sublimity, that in its shimmering extravagance, ascends to the heights of Dante, plunges into the depths of Heraclitus, and shatters with cosmic fists the stale stone idols of our post-shonen era(although coming from the golden age of anime, but still remaining relevant with both the classic saga and the later titles who add to the lore).
Saint Seiya is a sacred epic presented as a battle-shonen, a transfiguration of metal and myth. Like all true works of art, it is not the invention of man, but a mirror
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in which man rediscovers his forgotten divinity. To call Saint Seiya an epic is to speak with the quiet conviction of those who recognize the eternal struggle beneath the dazzling armor: the clash between the microcosm and macrocosm(which is in short the very idea about the "Cosmos": the same power that the knights unravel through their battles). Here, the armors are not mere shells of metal; they are the living embodiment of the soul’s quest for sanctity, each piece forged in the crucible of stellar dust(it is precisely in the brilliant combination of the sacred and the profane that the knights’ armors are born, described in Kurumada’s Hypermyth as the alchemical marriage between orichalcum, a well known metal as originating from the lost civilization of Atlantis, and gammanium, a fictional star-born metal) and only to be repaired/reforged(or brought back to life) through the immolation of a god or a saint(through their blood), for blood is not a scandal but a sacrament. The body must be broken, for only then does the true nature of the cosmos emerge.
The knights are saints, or individuals in pursuit of sanctity. The armor symbolizes destiny, the macrocosmic garment that guides man in his microcosm. It resembles Paul’s description of faith as armor, a garment against temptations and the vicissitudes brought about by evil, and is also akin to the Achilles’ shield forged by Hephaestus, as described in the Iliad. That shield symbolized Achilles’ submission to the macrocosm and the fate of the civilization he came to represent from that point onward: the entire macrocosm of the greek world was contained in the shield, as a symbol of the will of the gods.
The same can be said of the knights’ armors, which carry within them the symbolization of the qualities to be perfected along their journey toward sanctity. As a knight increases his cosmos, his armor is elevated in the hierarchy of metals: from bronze to silver, from silver to gold, and from gold to the glorious metal of divine cloth. But the most important aspect here is not the material hierarchy of metals, but rather the qualities that Kurumada centers in his myth through the bronze knights who are chosen as the main protectors of Athena. If we pay attention to the constellations that govern these characters, we will notice they are all archetypes that aspire toward the heavens.
- Pegasus symbolizes the reborn body after the death of the Medusa.
- Cygnus’s prefiguration of the Holy Spirit(also being the purity that walks on water).
- Phoenix’s solar immortality of the glorified resurrected body(as Christ from the tomb).
- Dragon's extraordinary courage(the eternal struggle that guards the golden treasure within).
- Andromeda’s unconditional devotion to the sun in the face of the abyss.
The mythic center is Athena, not the goddess as a quaint figure of greek fancy, but as the eternal Logos(although being exoterically presented as the living Nous) dressed in marble and made in flesh. She is Justice, she is Wisdom, she is also Charity and Mercy, she's the sacred center of the polis, not because she rules it, but because she suffers for it. Her Sanctuary is the high place of the world, not geographically but ontologically. To defend Athena is to defend the soul of civilization, and thus, the entire plot of Saint Seiya, with its labyrinth of battles and sacrifices, is nothing less than a mystical ascent: a pilgrimage through suffering toward the throne of Truth, a motif echoing the hierophany of a christian mythos where the divine and human intersect in sacrificial love.
Saint Seiya is, in truth, a bold synthesis of catholicism and classical myth, where the ancient greek gods are not supplanted but transformed, transfigured by the the logos spermatikos, the seed-bearing reason that bridges pagan and christian(what appears as tension but updates as convergence), myth and history, revealing the eternal in the temporal.
A tale about boys charging into the abyss with nothing but faith and fists. They do not win because they're powerful, they win because they believe.
In sum, Saint Seiya is the living mythos of our age, the greatest anime of all time, not because it is flawless, but because it is fearless.
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Jun 7, 2025
Saint Seiya
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The apotheosis of anime Mythos.
The greatest of the modern myths, and the most resplendent in both absurdity and sublimity, that in its shimmering extravagance, ascends to the heights of Dante, plunges into the depths of Heraclitus, and shatters with cosmic fists the stale stone idols of our post-shonen era(although coming from the golden age of anime, but still remaining relevant with both the classic saga and the later titles who add to the lore). Saint Seiya is a sacred epic presented as a battle-shonen, a transfiguration of metal and myth. Like all true works of art, it is not the invention of man, but a mirror ... Jun 5, 2025
Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan
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A very short, simple and yet deep and meaningful story.
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Tokyo卍Revengers
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So this is the dumbest sh*t that I ever had read in my entire life!
There is a tale about 3 priests that are visited by the Devil himself and so he asks them; if it was possible to time travel, what would they change in human history? - The first priest said he would've prevented Adam and Eve from eating the forbidden fruit. - The second one claimed a more bold statement saying he would've tried to convince the Devil to be loyal to God instead of creating the very first sin. - The third priest was the most humble between them and so he kneeled and prayed ... Jul 2, 2023
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Mob (Psycho 100)
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Eve no Jikan
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There are a few interesting moments in the show for example when 2 androids trick each other into making the other one believes they're humans instead but overall they are all portrayed as one sided good beings bearer of "hearts", it's just ... |