I’m mainly curious about learning the greater mythology of the Saints- what they are, where they come from, and what their place is in the world- because that’s something that the show isn’t immediately telling you despite it being a power all the main characters have attained after difficult and personal trials. It could be as a nostalgic comfort food type quality but it’s generally fast paced and keeps a forward momentum through the tournament structure of the narrative even though there are a couple of episodes in the first half dozen of the series where it feels like the story is already being dragged out to fill time. They’ve pulled the bit of characters sacrificing themselves to let their allies keep going towards the goal at least two or three times so far.īut I do find it fairly watchable. But the characters themselves, their backstories- the first handful of episodes already has everything from “trying to find a long lost sibling” to “must kill yourself to use your ultimate technique”. It was a bit odd at first but after it was interesting in how the series asked you to actively think and piece its world together, at least for the first 10 or so episodes. It was interesting how the show began in media res as Seiya is fighting in the final match of a tournament (which earns him a spot to fight in a different tournament, but then that tournament is interrupted by another tournament) and you are piecing together who Seiya is and what the world is as it goes alone. Either it being so influential or it sticking so closely to what was an already established formula, Saint Seiya hasn’t really diverged from the cliched shonen fighting story tropes you are familiar with nowadays, and it doesn’t feel like it has a particularly noteworthy identity outside of those. Having watched around 20 episodes, I don’t know that there’s really a lot here that I haven’t seen elsewhere by now. I think the US “Knights of the Zodiac” was shortly after I moved on from Cartoon Network’s anime blocks, or maybe I passed on it thinking it was an “Americanized” adaptation or some sort. I have known very little about it despite it being a phenomon in many part of the world. It’s always been a bit of a blind spot for me.
All of the original Saint Seiya TV show is now on Netflix with a full dub so I decided it was time to finally see what this show was like, since I can put it on while doing something else thanks to the dub.
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