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This Week in Anime - Why Saint Seiya is the OG Psychadelic Shonen Action Show

it also def feels like the story didn't quite know what it wanted to be in these early stages

the most effeminate member of the bunch has the most OP (and most useful outside of combat) ability we've seen so far

Is the misspelling of "psychedelic" intentional here? I'll also take the time to say I really don't like this "text message" format thing. It is funny sometimes but I come her for news and journalism, not comedy sketches.

Yeah, Saint Seiya was essentially Kurumada getting vengeance on Japanese Shonen Jump readers by making something they had no choice but to love. That's brilliant.

But how come only the first 15 episodes are dubbed in English, yet the 41 episodes that are up aren't? Has Netflix said anything about this? I'm really confused by this decision. Here's hoping it'll be rectified later on.

"It's pure. It's the most manga manga I have ever read. A rocking metal guitar riff plays in my head every time I read it. I had to invent a new word to describe the feeling each page stirs in me, and that word is RAD-TASTIC."

"Virtually every manga in Shonen Jump today is pretty much like Knights of the Zodiac. That is, they're like Knights of the Zodiac, only wussier."

"Knights of the Zodiac has never been censored. Most of the potentially controversial material involves gruesome violence rather than nudity, which makes it okay in America. Also, if you tried to censor Knights of the Zodiac, it would punch you in the face and then explode."

"Each volume is more outlandishly over the top than the one before. This series simply does not stop getting better. Every time you think you've seen the insanest thing you're going to see, something two million times insaner pulls up to the curb. A masked woman in armor getting dunked into the sea while tied upside-down to a cross is barely worth pausing to comment on."

"Nothing that happens in Knights of the Zodiac makes a lick of sense. Or rather, it has its own logic, a logic not directly connected to our reality. It's a kid logic, and in fact the series reads very much like it was scooped directly from the brain of a ten-year-old boy and schlopped down onto the page."

"I know I'm likely to get pilloried for this, but it reminds me of the work of Jack Kirby, after he snapped his editorial restriants and went completely batshit drawing stuff for DC. Kurumada's art isn't as good as Kirby's, but the point of Kirby was never the art, anyway; it was the feverish invocation of a sprawling, larger-than-life reality that could only ever exist in comic books. Kurumada's got that going on. And he's equally insane. When Kirby lets fly with the giant screeching man-bats, Kurumada tosses up a serene flautist casually beheading a guy with one hand."

That's because Masami Kurumada didn't know what the series would be like at the start. He admitted in the Author's Note in the first volume of the manga that he made Saint Seiya precisely to please mainstream audiences, since they shunned his previous series, Otoko Zaka, which was meant to be his magnum opus.

Yeah, Saint Seiya was essentially Kurumada getting vengeance on Japanese Shonen Jump readers by making something they had no choice but to love. That's brilliant.

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“Even though we tried to make the Dragon Ball anime better than Dr. Slump's, the ratings still went gradually down. We then tried to figure out why that was happening, why the series wasn't doing well. One thing we discovered was that the producer for the Dragon Ball anime was the same as on Dr. Slump. As he had an image of Toriyama's manga as being something cute and funny, which meant his style of Dragon Ball became too similar to Dr. Slump. This meant he was missing the more serious tone we had developed in the Dragon Ball manga. For instance, when I saw the scene in the anime where Goku pierces Piccolo I realized I couldn't work with this producer.

“So I talked with the studio and asked to have the producer changed. This was something that had never happened before, as it was an entirely different company.

“Around the same time, Saint Seiya was a very popular anime. This was interesting because the Saint Seiya manga was rather average but the anime by comparison was a lot better. So I wanted to know why the Saint Seiya anime was doing so well and we did some research on that. We found that there were two key figures. The first was Kouzou Morishita, who was the director, and the second was Takao Koyama, who wrote the script. So I visited these two guys and asked them if they'd help me reboot Dragon Ball and they both agreed.

The tournament is designed to make the Sanctuary's evil come to light. The goal of the victors would be to defeat the Sanctuary ruled by its master. But this detail was left out of the anime.

Saint Seiya is a good series for it's time but man, can it get repetitive in a way that the likes of Dragon Ball and JoJo never did. Prepare for alot of Saori/Athena getting kidnapped and needing to be rescued over and over again in up coming arcs.

True, but I don't think the beginning of the manga foreshadows that at all, so it reads strongly like that was a reason made up after the fact. Most likely, it just had a tournament because Kurumada knew that's what the Kinnikuman crowd liked, and he came up with a way to reconcile it with the earlier dialogue later.