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The Saint Seiya Manga Gallery
Every Japanese tankobon cover of Saint Seiya, volumes 1 to 28, Jump Comics, Shueisha, 1986 to 1991, each with its release date, plus the English first volume…
What is the Saint Seiya Final Edition?
The Saint Seiya Final Edition is Akita Shoten’s shinsoban reissue of Kurumada’s manga, begun June 2021, and the fifth life of the series in print after the…
Are the Saint Seiya covers the same in Japanese and English?
No. Viz Media’s Knights of the Zodiac (2004–2010) replaces Masami Kurumada’s Jump Comics cover art with a different illustration program and an American trade…
How can you tell a first printing of Saint Seiya?
By the colophon. Japanese tankobon print their impression history on the okudzuke page; a first printing of Saint Seiya reads as the first impression with a date…
What Saint Seiya video games are there?
The complete Saint Seiya game census: the Famicom RPG pair of 1987–88, the Game Boy and WonderSwan chapters, the PS2 and PS3 Dimps fighters, and the mobile era…
What were the Saint Seiya Famicom games?
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu (1987) and Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen (1988): Bandai’s two-part Famicom RPG of the Sanctuary arc, the first exported to France on…
What are the Saint Seiya PlayStation 2 games?
Two Dimps fighters: Saint Seiya: The Sanctuary (2005) and Saint Seiya: The Hades (2006 in Europe, 2007 in Japan). Neither reached North America.
What are Saint Seiya: Brave Soldiers and Soldiers' Soul?
Dimps’ PlayStation 3 and 4 arena fighters (2013 and 2015): the first Saint Seiya console games to cover all three manga arcs, and the first to be released in…
What is Saint Seiya Episode.G?
Megumu Okada’s Gold Saint prequel: serialised in Champion Red from December 2002 to June 2013, twenty volumes plus a volume 0, followed by Episode.G Assassin and…
What is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas?
Shiori Teshirogi’s telling of the previous Holy War: Weekly Shonen Champion, August 2006 to April 2011, twenty-five volumes plus sixteen Gaiden volumes, with a…
What is Saint Seiya: Next Dimension?
Masami Kurumada’s own sequel to Saint Seiya, drawn in full colour and published irregularly in Weekly Shonen Champion from 2006 until its conclusion on July 4,…
What is Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō?
Chimaki Kuori’s Saint Seiya, told through Athena’s female attendants the Saintias: Champion Red, August 2013 to July 2021, sixteen volumes, with a 2018 anime…
What other Saint Seiya manga are there?
Beyond the big four: Dark Wing, Rerise of Poseidon, Saint Mariya, Kurumada’s Episode Zero and Origin shorts, the Gigantomachia novels and France’s own Time…
Why is Saint Seiya bigger in France than in America?
Because France met it first, whole, and at full volume: TF1’s Club Dorothee from 1988, an uncut wave across Europe and Latin America, while America waited until…
How was the 1986 Saint Seiya anime made?
Toei Animation, TV Asahi, October 1986 to April 1989: 114 episodes directed by Kozo Morishita and Kazuhito Kikuchi, designed by Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno,…
Why did the Hades chapter take so long to animate?
The TV series ended in 1989 at Poseidon while the manga ran to 1991. The Hades Chapter OVAs finally arrived in three waves, 2002 to 2008, on satellite and pay…
What are the Saint Seiya films?
Four Toei features of 1987–89, the 2004 Heaven Chapter Overture that stalled a trilogy, the 2014 CGI Legend of Sanctuary, and Hollywood’s 2023 Knights of the Zodiac.
How does Masami Kurumada draw Saint Seiya?
From a rejected karate manga to Sorayama-inspired armour: the documented making of Kurumada’s Saint Seiya style, hot-blooded composition, the Star System cast,…
What are the Cloths in Saint Seiya?
Sacred armour keyed to the 88 constellations, ranked Bronze, Silver and Gold, worn by Athena’s Saints and carried as constellation-shaped Objects in their Cloth…
What is Saint Cloth Myth?
Bandai’s die-cast Saint Seiya figure line: launched in late 2003 beside the Hades OVAs, heir to the 1987 Saint Cloth Series, rebuilt as Myth Cloth EX in 2011 and…
