"Saint Seiya" (1986) TV series 1986-1989

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Yasuhito Kikuchi

Writers:

Masami Kurumada (writer)
Tadashi Yamazaki (writer)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

30 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Boy | Knight | Mythology | Manga | Astrology

Cast

Hideyuki Tanaka	...	Narration / ... (100 episodes, 1986-1988)
Tôru Furuya	...	Seiya / ... (97 episodes, 1986-1989)
Ryô Horikawa	...	Shun / ... (83 episodes, 1986-1988)
Kôichi Hashimoto	...	Hyôga (73 episodes, 1986-1988)
Hirotaka Suzuoki	...	Shiryû / ... (71 episodes, 1986-1988)
Keiko Han	...	Saori (69 episodes, 1986-1988)
Hideyuki Hori	...	Ikki / ... (47 episodes, 1986-1989)
Hiroko Emori	...	Kiki / ... (42 episodes, 1986-1988)
Henry Djanik	...	Ikki (42 episodes, 1986-1989)

Also Known As:

"Knights of the Zodiac" (USA) (new title)

Runtime:

24 min (114 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | Brazil:Livre | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp

Company:

Toei Animation Company

Trivia:

Masami Kurumada said that he doesn't like the anime, but agreed to transfer the manga to anime because of a tradition of make an anime from every manga.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Megas XLR: Rearview Mirror Mirror: Part 1 (#2.12)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Eien Blue

US Translation a Disappointment

With the recent release of this series on Cartoon Network, a disappointing translation has been revealed. Who ever heard of knights wearing cloth instead of armor? Why don't the knights use their zodiac constellation names, instead of the common animal names? Is it because this US release presumes that Americans neither know nor care about the accuracy of anachronism nor the Latin proper names of constellations? Having watched foreign language versions of this series before, I must say that the bad translation seems to sap much of the richness of the original fantasy world.