Saint Seiya International - An Introduction

If you don't know Saint Seiya at all, the small introduction below shall give you an idea what all the stuff is about. For more details about the story, refer to the other pages listed in the site-list.

Seiya wearing his new armour

Saint Seiya is a story from Masami Kurumada about warriors called 'Saints', whose task is to protect Athena, the Goddess of peace, and to fight against evil forces. There are also evil Saints in the story who are on the hostile side. It is said that all 200 years the Evil will come back to earth and will try to rule the whole world with a helping hand from their forces. In the same time, the Goddess Athena will be reincarnated, to prevent the Evil from accesion to power on earth, and to save the world.
The story has five main chacters: Seiya the Pegasus Saint, Shiryu the Dragon Saint, Shun the Andromeda Saint, Hyoga the Cygnus Saint and Ikki the Phoenix Saint. The task of those Saints is to protect Athena and to fight against the evil forces and defeat them. The Saints are wearing armours, which they have deserved after a some years of hard training. Their armours protects them from external impacts and give them also some special abilities. The armour represents a star constellation, from which a Saint also gains his power, called 'cosmo'. For newbies: The cosmo of a Saint is like an aura. According to the story, everybody has got a cosmo, which he/she is able to discover.

Seiya wearing his new armour

The story (i.e. the anime-series) consists of 114 episodes and can be basically divided in six main parts:

The tournament for the gold armour of the Saggitarius
In search of the stolen parts of the gold armour of the Saggitarius
The Battle against the silver Saints and other kind of close encounters
The Combat at the Sanctuary
The Fight in Asegard
The Battle in Poseidon's Kingdom

Saint Seiya brings the subject "friendship" and "holding together" in an amazing way to you. The feature also demonstrates that the "bad guys" can have their good sides and they needn't to be only mad, dump and ugly. The enemies are not just there acting as "cannon-fodder", but they are fighting for an ideal they believe in, thus they have a reason to be, and this makes them not less interesting than the main characters.