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Saint Seiya - Power of the Cosmos Lies (Vol.1)

Saint Seiya - Power of the Cosmos Lies (Vol.1)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Power of Cosmos blows away expectatives
Review: is a brand new midia for every one to hear it in englhs and it a grate trama

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Saint Seiya in the USA... I never would have believed it.
Review: Saint Seiya gets at least one of those stars from pure sentiment. While the series has much to recommend it, it isn't at the level of Vision of Escaflowne or some of the other Greats of anime. But Saint Seiya WAS the anime that introduced me TO anime.

Saint Seiya is also significant in that it essentially defined the "God-warrior" subgenre of anime, which includes such entries as Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (AKA Ronin Warriors), Shurato, and several others, with strong influence on shows like Sailor Moon.

The basic outline of Saint Seiya is that there is a cycle of mystic significance in which Athena (Goddess of Wisdom and War) is reincarnated on Earth, along with her chosen guardians the Saints (empowered mystical warriors, wearing armor that signifies the various mythological constellations and grants its wearers powers that derive from the symbolism of the constellations) to do battle against the forces of darker nature, ultimately represented by the god Hades (her uncle and lord of the Underworld).

The show itself is strongest in the first story arc (the Sanctuary story arc). All of the show's unique ideas -- the power of the Cosmos and the Saints, their particular abilities and the rationale behind them, etc. -- are developed in this season. The show is a classic "Five-Team" adventure, sharing many characteristics with the live-action Sentai series (such as the shows from which Power Rangers was derived), but with its own peculiar mythos and charm. The main characters are clearly delineated and developed -- Seiya, the stubborn one who just won't give up, Ikki the grim loner, Shun the sensitive one, Shiryu the wise one, and Hyoga the Just -- with more than their simple roles would require.

The character designs are interesting, and the armor designs utterly unique. The power combats are highly stylized, however; those used to the much more detailed and "realistic" power-combats of Dragonball Z and similar shows will have to adjust to this much more impressionistic/artistic approach, which sometimes works and sometimes leaves a bit to be desired.

Do not, on any account, listen to the hideous dubbed version on Cartoon Network. The translation is okay, but the voice acting is horrendous -- I have the impression that the poor VAs were given maybe five minutes with the script before doing a dub -- and with a show that has many potentially cliche'd moments and situations you need GOOD voice acting to carry it off.

Saint Seiya is a piece of anime history, and worth a viewing by any fan of shonen (boys) anime.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Saint seiya best anime ever
Review: Saint seiya is simply one of the best anime ever created. I watched
the entire series back in mexico and I never got tired of them,plus the music is simply beatiful it really catches the moments within the story I strongly recomend this series and please stay away from knights of the zodiac wich really makes saint seiya look real bad.
I personally like the battle of the santuary because it has a lot of gore and action unlike dbz this story never repeats itself and you will never get tired of watching this anime.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: there is a collection box?
Review: Somedoy knows what is the best collection box for Saint-Seiya?
I see there is "collector edition", and the volume 5 with "box".
What does that mean? If i buy the first 6 volumes, I will have all the first episodes? Or, as a fan, i'm loosing the oportunity to have some more?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Saint Seiya is back!!!
Review: The brilliancy in saint seiya is in it's story, not actions (which are kind of lame I'll admit but hey, it is pretty old) I watched saint seiya when I was in kindergarden(I'm 17) and I used to be soooo addicted to it my parents had to restrict me from watching it. but now, because of technology, the animes are getting better and better so saint seiya does look lame, someone should really remake it, by remake I mean to redraw it.
But all in all, saint seiya's story is just one of the best I have ever seen, the struggle of the heros, the emotions of the depairs, the mythologies. In saint seiya, pretty much non of the characters are pure evil, it's a fight of necessity instead of good vs evil. America really shouldn't get it on television like THIS late, if saint seiya is in America during it's popular year, I bet saint seiya would be popular in America too.
By the way, saint seiya is better in the first season than other two seasons, but this is pretty much like all shows.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Show - Great DVD
Review: The Saint Seiya TV show and its 4 movies are one of my favorite animated programs. Back in the late 1980s and in to the early 1990s, I watched the whole series and even translated it for fans to enjoy even if they couldn't speak Japanese. This DVD is a great release of a show that I hope will catch on with non-Japanese speaking anime fans.

The basic premise of the show is that a group of young warriors fight for re-incarnations of the classical gods who have materialized in to the modern technological world. It's rather like "Highlander" meets "Clash of the Titans".

The first 10 episodes or so are rather slow but after that the action and plot really picks up. By the time the series gets to episode 40 or so, it is a sight to behold. Although the animation may seem to be targeted at kids, the show is very violent and has lots of adult situations so parents beware.

The Japanese voice acting, scripting and musical scores are truly some of the best work in Japanese TV animation. Skip the dubbed, edited American TV version of Saint Seiya and watch the uncut show.

First rate fun!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Show - Great DVD
Review: The Saint Seiya TV show and its 4 movies are one of my favorite animated programs. Back in the late 1980s and in to the early 1990s, I watched the whole series and even translated it for fans to enjoy even if they couldn't speak Japanese. This DVD is a great release of a show that I hope will catch on with non-Japanese speaking anime fans.

The basic premise of the show is that a group of young warriors fight for re-incarnations of the classical gods who have materialized in to the modern technological world. It's rather like "Highlander" meets "Clash of the Titans".

The first 10 episodes or so are rather slow but after that the action and plot really picks up. By the time the series gets to episode 40 or so, it is a sight to behold. Although the animation may seem to be targeted at kids, the show is very violent and has lots of adult situations so parents beware.

The Japanese voice acting, scripting and musical scores are truly some of the best work in Japanese TV animation. Skip the dubbed, edited American TV version of Saint Seiya and watch the uncut show.

First rate fun!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: best anime ever
Review: these series will give you a run for your money, not only they beat the snot of dragon ball anime fans....the fighting scenes are awesome same with the animation. these series will be the biggest hit in the usa ofcourse after beebop,highly recomend it to any one who was looking for an awesome anime title.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Very good
Review: This DVD is uncensored and un cut, its different thant the Knights of the Zodiac version been shown on TV (Cartoon Network). This has its original Sound Track, and different translation that is correct.

This is a nice DVD to buy if you are a Saint Seiya FAN.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Seiya, Don't Wake the Sleeping Audience
Review: This is a very strange anime. On the surface it looks like it should be a fun, fighting-oriented story, like Dragonball Z. Instead we get a messy and drawn-out plot that makes little to no sense. As kids, each of the Saints was sent to a different part of the world for training and the opportunity to acquire one of the various Saint armors. Years later they all came back to participate in a tournament that would decide who was to wear the golden armor and lead them all. As all this is going, a new character is introduced who used to be a friend of the Saints, but is now their enemy. They defeat him and go back to the tournament. That's where I got fed up and stopped watching. It just seemed like the series wasn't going anywhere. It didn't seem like the plot was moving past the tournament or finding the true purpose of the Saints.

For an older anime series, I was disappointed. I was expecting something more along the lines of Robotech, or Voltron or even Akira in terms of style of story and overall joy to watch. What we get is in no way close to the grandeur of Robotech. It wasn't as outright fun to watch as Voltron. And it lacked the outright appeal of Akira. Bottom line: we get a series that doesn't get anywhere fast and leaves the audience bored and looking for the remote.


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