Saint Seiya: Kamigami no atsuki tatakai (1988)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Writers:

Takao Koyama (writer)
Masami Kurumada (comic)

Release Date:

12 March 1988 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Fantasy

Plot:

Hyoga is missing somewhere in Asgard... When Seiya and the others are looking for him, Athena is kidnapped and they have to rescue her from Dolvar and some mysterious warriors. |

Plot Keywords:

Anime | Manga | Based On Comic | Character Name In Title

Cast

Tôru Furuya	...	Seiya, Pegasus Bronze Saint (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki	...	Shiryu, Dragon Bronze Saint (voice)
Kôichi Hashimoto	...	Hyoga, Cygnus Bronze Saint (voice)
Ryô Horikawa	...	Shun, Andromeda Bronze Saint (voice)
Hideyuki Hori	...	Ikki, Phoenix Bronze Saint (voice)
Keiko Han	...	Saori Kido (Athena) (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tesshô Genda	...	Lung (voice)
Daisuke Gôri	...	Man (voice)
Iemasa Kayumi	...	Dolbal (voice)
Yû Mizushima	...	Loki (voice)
Akira Murayama	...	Ul (voice)
Keiichi Nanba	...	Frey (voice)
Satoko Yamano	...	Freya (voice)

Runtime:

Argentina:45 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Company:

Toei Doga

Trivia:

A secondary character in this movie, one of the divine warriors, very much resembles the canonical Asgard warrior Fenrir, God Warrior of Alioth, although this name is never given to the character throughout the movie. A companion to this character is another divine warrior, reminiscent of Thor, God Warrior of Phecda, although in this case the resemblance is minor.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Saint Seiya" (1986)

I'm really disappointed!

I'm a Saint Seiya (or as we know the series in Mexico "Knights of the Zodiac") fan, but this has gone too far.

I have yet to see the first Sain Seiya feature film (Saint Seiya Gekijoban, or The Legend of the Golden Apple, 1987), but regarding this movie, I hate to say that it's just plain old more of the same stuff! This movie is not only really, really short: 45 minutes (about the length of just two episodes of the series), but it also clearly non-canonical.

Anything that happens in this movie, although it includes the characters of Saori, Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun & Ikki, has nothing to do with the series's continuity.

Besides those two diminishing factors (its lack of real length and association with the canon), the base for the saints' conflict with the Kingdom of Asegard (sic) is barely something worth of suspense.

There are no strong supporting characters, and the battles are short (really short) and meaningless. There's no reason behind the evil portrayed here.

Now, I know how the Saint Seiya universe works, but this has gone too far. I REALLY hope the other Saint Seiya movie productions are better than this.

Almost 20 years later, and not even nostalgia can save it from obligatory oblivion.