Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68716 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 125 minutes

Amazon.com
One of the big hits of the later '80s, Saint Seiya (1986) set the look and tone for Ronin Warriors, and will appeal to the same audience. After years of training in Greece, Seiya returns to Japan as a "saint" in bronze armor, one of the cadre of young warriors sworn to defend the goddess Athena in her current incarnation. The first episodes set up the characters, each of whom is linked to a constellation (Pegasus in Seiya's case). Seiya is forced to compete in the "Galactic Wars," a surprisingly violent round-robin battle for the legendary golden armor. It quickly becomes clear that the real heroes have higher motivations than personal glory: Seiya wants to find his long-lost sister; his friend and rival Shiryu fights for his mother's memory. A standard assortment of adoring girlfriends and feisty orphans complete the cast. (Rated 15 and older: considerable violence, profanity) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

saint seiya
Saint seiya is the best anime I have ever seen. It is so real and so much better than many of the movies they make now a days. But that's just my point of view.

I love the series but...
... none of the reviewers talk about the languages included in this set. Does it include the Japanese, as well as Spanish dubbings? I have seen the Spanish dubbing extensively and I can say it is excellent. I have no doubt the Japanese one is good.

As far as the series is concerned, it is by far one of the greatest I have seen in my life. It made a whole generation in Mexico get up at 7am on Saturday mornings for numerous years (cause that was the only time you could catch the new episode, no matter how many reruns there were at other schedules.)

I only hope someone talks about the quality of THIS BOXED SET.

Seiya, Don't Wake the Sleeping Audience
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.