![]() Then our five Bronze Saints begin there quest to save their sacred leader. In the process Saori/Athena either gets kidnapped, or wooed away (if this enemy is oh so charming and handsome). Though each film has it’s own pace and variation on the so called theme, or leitmotif of the fightype formula of successive adversaries leading up to, they all kind of go like this… A great arch enemy descends and brings five subordinates. All four are out of canon to the original manga and ironically The Heated Battle of the Gods is an alternative to the filler Asgard Arc from the TV series. These films are more for fun and I am sure were created to keep the SS marketing machine going.Īll four movies are very cliche and are so formulaic that I end up predicting the whole plot before the beginning credits. Several other productions would appear decades later, but these four titles will be under the spotlight: Evil Goddess Eris (1987), The Heated Battle of the Gods (1988), Legend of Crimson Youth (1988) and Warriors of the Final Holy Battle (1989). All of these were released by Discotek and fall into my blog’s concentration on anime of the 1970s and 1980s. I will only make comment on the four SS films that were released from 1987 to 1989. I bought a few of these DVDs and here is what came of that purchase. A couple years ago, the company Discotek released a bunch of SS materials. The original TV series I love dearly, the manga was great, the Hades Arc OVAs which finished the original manga adaptation was welcomed. In essence, it is a run of the mill shonen fighter, but the inclusion of Greek mythology, astrology and heavy melodrama make it a heavy favorite for me. Saint Seiya, oh how I love thee, let me count the ways… I can forgive many of the short comings of Saint Seiya. ![]()
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