SonicMegaDrive
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Eh. Not interested if it's not traditional animation. Or if it doesn't have an awesome 80's soundtrack. That was always the main draw for me.
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Remake of Saint Seiya (Knight of the Zodiac) serie on NETFLIX announced!
- Thread starter Kain-Nosgoth
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boiled goose
good with gravy
This show was insanely popular in the 90s in latinamerica. Even toys were popular.
The series has some cool concepts and perhaps too much melodrama. A remake could be good.
The series has some cool concepts and perhaps too much melodrama. A remake could be good.
I'm confused by the staff. So this is a western production with animation outsourced to Toei? Good lawd that writing staff, awful.
MikeHattsu
Member
Should have just linked to famitsu then ;P
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201708/02138953.html
And, yeah, says it's CG there.
Rodolfo Brito
Member
Saint Seiya is definitely bigger than Dragonball in Brazil. This anime made the childhood of whole generation happier. I am hyped.
Kain-Nosgoth
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sixteen-bit
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Cool beans.
Admiral Woofington
Member
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Ballerooos
Del zodiaaaaaaa
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Ballerooos
Del zodiaaaaaaa
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JonnyDBrit
Member
The Spanish and Portuguese speaking world are going to eat this the fuck up.
Gonna be wary if it really is Toei Animation handling it though. Outside of Omega's sakuga moments (which even then were limited mostly to the first season) they have not exactly given the franchise the quality treatment for a while. On the other hand, their CG tech isn't actually that bad if properly utilised, though it mostly has been utilised for Precure endings of late.
Edit:
It's big in a lot of places - mostly western continental Europe and much of the Americas south of the US border with Mexico.
Gonna be wary if it really is Toei Animation handling it though. Outside of Omega's sakuga moments (which even then were limited mostly to the first season) they have not exactly given the franchise the quality treatment for a while. On the other hand, their CG tech isn't actually that bad if properly utilised, though it mostly has been utilised for Precure endings of late.
Edit:
It's big in a lot of places - mostly western continental Europe and much of the Americas south of the US border with Mexico.
Maintenance
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CG? Meh, way to kill the hype.
Prime crotch
Banned
They better use the cool armors from the anime only.
Seductivpancakes
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my name is ed
Banned
I fucking love Saint Seiya. Watched the Hades arc and Lost Canvas recently. I'd love for a season 3 of lost canvas to happen but I'll take this too.
And to add to everyone else saying it: saint seiya was massive in Mexico. Glad to hear it was similar in other Latin countries.
And to add to everyone else saying it: saint seiya was massive in Mexico. Glad to hear it was similar in other Latin countries.
Shadow-Link
Banned
Lost Canvas was top tier and it's the best we've had since the 12 houses arc in the original.
I'm skeptical with this one, but I really hope it delivers, it could be big.
Sunset Samurai
Member
If they use CG I'll pass. I hate that art style
ldcommando
Banned
As a Brazilian I'm pretty much obligated to check this out. It's on the Constitution.
Same. I've been interested in the series, but there are so many spinoffs/remakes/etc, as well as divisive opinions on what's worth checking out vs what should be avoided.
Doesn't help that there's no real official way to check out the original series: it got that godawful network dub that colored all the blood blue (for "sweat") and there's the ADV dub which I think only got two volumes before getting cancelled.
Shadow-Link
Banned
It is big in all Latin America, second only to Dragon Ball.
The Omega Man
Member
Holy Shit Saint Seiya fans on Neogaf? They are dozens of us!
This came out of the blue, I though the only Saint Seiya animation being made right now was the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō. This can't be worse than the Saint Seiya movie from a couple of years ago and Omega right? Right?
This came out of the blue, I though the only Saint Seiya animation being made right now was the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō. This can't be worse than the Saint Seiya movie from a couple of years ago and Omega right? Right?
There's literally no divisive opinion though.
You watch the original Japanese run, period.
Yeah I will wait for the trailer or first episode before complaining of it's shitty cg
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
the first to use the name was the french version, and then the rest simply translated from there! "les chevalier du zodiaque" became " Los caballeros del Zodiaco"
and thus it's mainly know with this name outside japan now
JonnyDBrit
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Lost Canvas is near-universally accepted as pretty damn good, and chronologically the earliest in the series, so that's a possible starting point. I personally got in via Omega, divisive thought it may be as a non-canon sequel, and it does have the benefit of the OG cast appearing via cameos. Unfortunately most of them outside of Seiya don't become full forces in the series until season 2, which even as a fan of the series, I do not recommend. Soul of Gold is... serviceable, but is an immediate sequel revolving around characters who are only there because of spoilers from the original series. All should be available on Crunchyroll.
Not much of a legal option for the OG series though, I believe.
The strong character design, soundtrack, poses and occasional bits of great animation more than made up for it.
Certainly not a dumpster fire.
Yeah it had lots of powerpoint level animation xD
Whompa02
Member
Is such a thing even possible?
Ugh god dammit it's so bad...
Alex_Mexico
Member
México here and I can attest to that. That series was insanely popular in the 90s. Only DBZ Was more popular and that didn't happen until 5 or so year after Saint Seiya.
Such a shame that Jesus Barrero, the iconic Latin Spanish voice of Seiya, died recently. He'll be missed.
Stone Ocean
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Please don't suck
Please don't suck
Please don't suck
Please don't suck
Please don't suck
Please give me a new Pegasus Fantasy remix
Holy shit! A new Saint Seiya series exclusively on Netflix? And it's in full CG? This is going to be huge in Latam and Brazil!
Here's hoping that the English dub has some of the ADV dub cast reprise their roles. It's been a long time since I watched the censored KotZ dub on Toonami.
This better have Pegasus Fantasy or RIOT
Here's hoping that the English dub has some of the ADV dub cast reprise their roles. It's been a long time since I watched the censored KotZ dub on Toonami.
This better have Pegasus Fantasy or RIOT
Alex_Mexico
Member
Fuck yeah it is! An important network tv channel is airing the original series all over again in prime time (7:30-8:30pm) since June.
Why did this show get so big in Europe and Latin America but never in the US?
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
i'm sure it will be there, this shit is way too popular!
Because they made hyoga a surfer maybe?.... ho, and the blue blood
Afro Thunder
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I'd like to see the original run on Netflix
The Omega Man
Member
Except Shingo Araki elevated this to amazeballs levels thanks to his designs, I am convinced that if they would have kept Kurumada's designs this shonen would have tanked right away. Bless Araki, he will be dearly missed.
Stone Ocean
Member
I can only speak for Brazil, but Saint Seiya was essentially our first contact with anime. There was pretty much nothing quite like it, we also got some other minor series afterwards but no anime was this big until DBZ came along.
Alex_Mexico
Member
They did what now?i'm sure it will be there, this shit is way too popular!
Because they made hyoga a surfer maybe?.... ho, and the blue blood
And how come they tolerated red blood in DBZ but not in Saint Seiya?