Also, they changed an iconic feminine, stereotype-breaking male character into a stereotypical token female character. Totally different philosophy than original StS. And even here it got Saint Seiya wrong: where as Cosmo in Saint Seiya is natural power that exists in every being, now Cosmo seems to be a supernatural power. The evil one is a military guy who doesn't believe in superstitions but want to use technology to take the power of the gods.wait, is this guy supposed to represent America? The theme of science/technology/rationality vs gods/magic/supernatural is to me clearly American. he is the first god to start a crusade against Athena, during the First Crusade, where he built the great walled city Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean. As if characters can't be grey, KotZ (not going to call it Saint Seiya) split Mitsumasa Kido into two characters, one good while another evil. Poseidon (, Poseidon) is the god of the oceans and one of Olympus. The Saints have the ability to use energy from the universe, and use it to fight against any person who attacks Athena. The plot follows a teenager named Seiya who becomes one of the 88 soldiers for the goddess Athena, named Saints. They should have not called it Saint Seiya if they only want to borrow the design characters and some scenes off the manga but getting the whole world view wrong or Americanized. The Loop Saint Seiya is a Japanese manga of great success, written and drawn by Masami Kurumada. Dumb, sanitized, Americanized, likely homophobic take on Saint Seiya.
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