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I've posted from Saint Seiya before, and not coincidentally about my favourite character from the series, the reluctant warrior Andromeda Shun, and I'll explain why I'm posting more later on...
This is from the Poseidon Chapter of the manga, and I apologise for the fact that a soft covered 169 page manga isn't really suited for a flatbed scanner. (I'm posting 43 pages from volume 15 here.)
The Greek god Poseidon has been reincarnated (as all Greek gods are in Saint Seiya), taking control of the most recent member of a particular family bloodline he has always favoured. He has summoned his herald, the Mermaid, and his Seven Generals (one for each of the Oceans of the World, and the Mermaid Saint, his herald) whose Marinas Scale armours each match a legendary creature from marine legend. He's also planning on flooding the world, as is his wont, and the only way that he can be stopped is if the Seven Pillars which support the roof of his undersea realm, each of which is guarded by one of the Generals. Being a more peace loving sort of deity, Athena takes issue with this plan, and the principle five Bronze Saints split up and set out to destroy the pillars.
Shun is en route to the South Pacific pillar (And then he's going to wash that god right out of his hair... sorry, I am gay so sort of had to make that reference or risk losing my membership)
Remember, read right to left, in both page and panel order.
The Rolling Defense is one of Shuns standard moves, along with the Nebula Chain as an attack (He has two primary chains, one with a circle at the end, for defence, and one with a triangle arrowhead like tip, which is used for attack... though they can multiply and extend to near infinite lengths and he maintains a sort of tactile telekinetic control over them... as someone is about to find out)
Scylla is of course one of the legendary pair or monsters, Scylla and Charybdis.
And it's at this point that Io should have realised the mistake he'd made.... you DON'T toy with your enemy, and you certainly don't repeat yourself, because that can only end badly for you.
Well THAT sounds painful....
Of course, this being Saint Seiya it doesn't end quite THAT happily (The sequence is fairly long so I'd rather not start on it and half to end it half way through)
And for those curious about Scylla's Scale, here is what it looks like when in representational form.
And why did I post this today? Well yesterday in Japan, in episode 12 of Saint Seiya Omega, sort of "Saint Seiya the Next Generation" Shun returned!
He's the first of the original five Bronze Saints to appear properly (Seiya made a cameo in flashback, Shiryu was mentioned and his rather adorable son, Ryuho, is the new Draco Saint and as yet no word of Cygnus Hyoga or Phoenix Ikki)
Oh, and this is Ryuho....
As you can see from that clip, Saint Seiya Omega has broken with the old style of Saint Seiya (though it's done a nice job on the opening) by removing the transforming armour, and making it, admittedly fairly stylish, armour that is simply summoned, and tends to look more like a variation on the Sailor Moon "Make up!" henshin, which is a bit of a shame. See also Kouga for another exampled
Also, all Saints, even former ones, have had their powers altered so they are now basically elementals; All Saints fall into one of seven categories; Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, Thunder and the rarest categories of all, Darkness and Light.
It's all a bit Avatar the Last Airbender meets Sailor Moon, and has met with a decidely mixed reaction from old school fans.
However, as I said, last night we met Shun again. Now, about 15 to 20 years after the original series he's living as a hermit in the desert, but is much revered by the locals. When an enemy Saint (Canis Minor) tracks Kouga and Leo Minor Saint Soma and realises that Shun is with them, he basically runs like hell on general principle because the Andromeda Saint has THAT sort of a rep, even after all this time.
Later, when Canis Minor discovers that Shun suffered an injury years ago which has greatly limited his capacity to channel cosmo, and he never uses the Andromeda Cloth now, he feels he can attack the younger Saints with impunity. At which point, of course, Shun shows how they did things in HIS day.
I'm relieved at some level that they didn't redesign his Cloth in any way, and that he just, temporarily, makes his old Cloth out of pure Cosmo energy, which is pretty impressive in its own way.
Just thought I'd share! :)
I've posted from Saint Seiya before, and not coincidentally about my favourite character from the series, the reluctant warrior Andromeda Shun, and I'll explain why I'm posting more later on...
This is from the Poseidon Chapter of the manga, and I apologise for the fact that a soft covered 169 page manga isn't really suited for a flatbed scanner. (I'm posting 43 pages from volume 15 here.)
The Greek god Poseidon has been reincarnated (as all Greek gods are in Saint Seiya), taking control of the most recent member of a particular family bloodline he has always favoured. He has summoned his herald, the Mermaid, and his Seven Generals (one for each of the Oceans of the World, and the Mermaid Saint, his herald) whose Marinas Scale armours each match a legendary creature from marine legend. He's also planning on flooding the world, as is his wont, and the only way that he can be stopped is if the Seven Pillars which support the roof of his undersea realm, each of which is guarded by one of the Generals. Being a more peace loving sort of deity, Athena takes issue with this plan, and the principle five Bronze Saints split up and set out to destroy the pillars.
Shun is en route to the South Pacific pillar (And then he's going to wash that god right out of his hair... sorry, I am gay so sort of had to make that reference or risk losing my membership)
Remember, read right to left, in both page and panel order.
The Rolling Defense is one of Shuns standard moves, along with the Nebula Chain as an attack (He has two primary chains, one with a circle at the end, for defence, and one with a triangle arrowhead like tip, which is used for attack... though they can multiply and extend to near infinite lengths and he maintains a sort of tactile telekinetic control over them... as someone is about to find out)
Scylla is of course one of the legendary pair or monsters, Scylla and Charybdis.
And it's at this point that Io should have realised the mistake he'd made.... you DON'T toy with your enemy, and you certainly don't repeat yourself, because that can only end badly for you.
Well THAT sounds painful....
Of course, this being Saint Seiya it doesn't end quite THAT happily (The sequence is fairly long so I'd rather not start on it and half to end it half way through)
And for those curious about Scylla's Scale, here is what it looks like when in representational form.
And why did I post this today? Well yesterday in Japan, in episode 12 of Saint Seiya Omega, sort of "Saint Seiya the Next Generation" Shun returned!
He's the first of the original five Bronze Saints to appear properly (Seiya made a cameo in flashback, Shiryu was mentioned and his rather adorable son, Ryuho, is the new Draco Saint and as yet no word of Cygnus Hyoga or Phoenix Ikki)
Oh, and this is Ryuho....
As you can see from that clip, Saint Seiya Omega has broken with the old style of Saint Seiya (though it's done a nice job on the opening) by removing the transforming armour, and making it, admittedly fairly stylish, armour that is simply summoned, and tends to look more like a variation on the Sailor Moon "Make up!" henshin, which is a bit of a shame. See also Kouga for another exampled
Also, all Saints, even former ones, have had their powers altered so they are now basically elementals; All Saints fall into one of seven categories; Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, Thunder and the rarest categories of all, Darkness and Light.
It's all a bit Avatar the Last Airbender meets Sailor Moon, and has met with a decidely mixed reaction from old school fans.
However, as I said, last night we met Shun again. Now, about 15 to 20 years after the original series he's living as a hermit in the desert, but is much revered by the locals. When an enemy Saint (Canis Minor) tracks Kouga and Leo Minor Saint Soma and realises that Shun is with them, he basically runs like hell on general principle because the Andromeda Saint has THAT sort of a rep, even after all this time.
Later, when Canis Minor discovers that Shun suffered an injury years ago which has greatly limited his capacity to channel cosmo, and he never uses the Andromeda Cloth now, he feels he can attack the younger Saints with impunity. At which point, of course, Shun shows how they did things in HIS day.
I'm relieved at some level that they didn't redesign his Cloth in any way, and that he just, temporarily, makes his old Cloth out of pure Cosmo energy, which is pretty impressive in its own way.
Just thought I'd share! :)
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Date: 2012-06-20 09:23 am (UTC)Good to hear Shaina is atill badass, too, she was one of my favourite characters :). I hope Marin is ok, though...
there is a new Eagle Saint, Yuna, who is one of the main characters in the series and the first female Saint to actively reject the "law of masks" which she sees as absurd.
FINALLY! Even as a small child the law of the masks sounded like total bullshit to me. About time somebody went all "wait, so I have to work just as hard as any male Saint, but I must do so as a faceless entity that gets no recognition let alone any glory whatsoever? HELL NO!"
Thank you very much for the info :)
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Date: 2012-06-20 10:10 am (UTC)Not sure about them being "fine". Seiya is missing (though is believed to be out there somewhere), Shiryu is locked inside his own mind with all his senses being out of action, Shun was injured by a Darkness cosmo attack during the first attack of Mars 15/20 years ago, and hasn't been able to use his Cloth since then (He can use his cosmo but it's very, very dangerous to him to do so), and the fates of Hyoga and Ikki are completely unknown at the moment (Shun didn't mention Ikki in his appearance)