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Well, it's still better than the Heaven chapter movie from a while back. Now that was crappy! I've also only seen the first 2 OVAs for Inferno and yes, I agree that they certainly were missing much of what made the Sanctuary arc so goddamn cool.

A complete change of cast was a major blow. The animation was sorely lacking (OMG, did you see them running?! Like freakin' puppets on strings!!! The last shot of Saori was weird too, like there wasn't much consistency in the character designs.)

Please tell me the other 4 are even a little bit better........please?

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Saw them but wasn't interested. After the 12 Gold Saints, I just want a Athena Saori figure and then I'll be content. I might be interested in the 5 Kami Cloths too....


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There's nowhere I can't reach.

Awright, WTF? Is no one gonna do the english subs for episodes 3 - 6?! Then again, does this chapter suck so bad that no one thinks it's worth it?



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OMG, what crappy episodes we have here......

The subs don't matter because your eyes are too busy bleeding to be able read them (ha ha ha, please don't take me literally....it's not as serious as that.....). But the pacing sucks eggs, and the fights are totally crap:

Spoiler:

....Seiya and Shun seem to struggle in their matches whereas Shiryu and Hyoga perform one-hit kills and don't even break a sweat. They ran through the third prison without stopping for a breather, just kill the spectres guarding the dump and move on with little or no time lost. WTF?! The story on Orpheus was short but pretty well done, but no way saves these 2 episodes.

I fear the last 2 episodes will kill the Seiya franchise for good.




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Well, finally got round to seeing episode 10 a few nights ago. Godamn, it's about time things started getting interesting again. I was so sure they were going to fuck up this series. I was pretty disappointed with the Inferno Arc, especially since they did such an outstanding job with Sanctuary. So disappointed in fact, that I didn't bother seeing episodes 5 & 6 after the pitiful episodes 1 - 4.

Now, I see that the story has started to pick up pace again. I can't wait to see how things turn out in episodes 11 and beyond.

episode 10:

Spoiler:

Athena has disappeared (after running Hades' soul with Pandora's trident) seemingly taken away by Hades while Virgo Shakka can only watch in horror. Seiya finally reaches the chamber and finds an unconcious Shun in the throne room. Behind them is a huge wall, the Wailing Wall, which seperates Hell from the paradise Elysium. Along with Shakka, Seiya believes that Athena must be there and that they must break through the wall to get to her. Unfortunately, Shakka has already tried but he cannot make even a scratch on the surface.

When Shakka attempts to use up his life force to burn his cosmos to the maximum and break through, he is stopped by Libra Dohko who has joined them. They are then joined by Scorpio Milo, Aries Mu and Leo Aiolia. When Shakka explains that only the power of the sun can pierce the wall, Dohko explains that it can be done. If the Gold Saints unite, they can break through. The reason being, the 12 constellations of the zodiac (Gold Saint constellations) are always in the hemisphere in the direction of the sun, as such they have always been revolving around the sun for many a millenia. When the Gold Saints burn their cosmos with the energy of the sun, they believe they can break through.

The episode ends with Dohko dispersing Libra's weapons to the other 4 Gold Saints. But is it enough? Or is there another miracle yet?

Also, in episode 8 or 9 or 10, Marin is shown leading a girl towards Sanctuary. The girl is wearing a hood and has red hair. (OMFG!!)

Oh, when is episode 11 coming.......?


.....sigh......

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well, finally got round to seeing the last 2 episodes of the Inferno arc (couldn't find the episodes via any torrent, happened to find them online on the veoh.com/stage6 site). What a way to go.

Now I am definitely psyched for the final chapter! I know how it all turns out but damn I can't wait to see it all. I just hope they don't screw it up...




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The raw for Elysion OVA 01 has been released on Tokyo Toshokan. If you wanna see it straight away you can use your bitorrent client to download it:

[TV-Japan] Saint Seiya - Meiou Hades Elysion-hen - OVA 01 [CS-PPV 640x480 DivX6.8 120fps]
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=12832

I'll probably hang back a while and wait for someone to fansub it. Hope someone takes care of this soon!!

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Newbornankh Studios have released their English sub of episode 1 of the Elysion Chapter.

Get it here:

Saint Seiya - The Hades Chapter - Elysion: Episode 1

Looks good with an awesome short recap of the last episode of Inferno.




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Saw episode 2 of Elysion, looks fantastic! Can't wait for the other episodes to come out soon!!

As for the Myth Cloth series, some awesome news:

Saint Seiya - Seiya Pegasus God Cloth!!
Awesome!! The God Cloths start coming out and the first is Seiya himself.

Also:

Saint Seiya - Athena Saori
Saori finally appears before us. She doesn't seem to come with her God Cloth yet,but perhaps that will come a bit later...


Wonder if I should start collecting these again....despite having no room for them....

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Any idea when English subs for episodes 3 and 4 will be out?

Also, the Cloth Myth series has 2 versions of Poseidon coming out in September:

Saint Cloth Myth - Poseidon

Saint Cloth Myth - Poseidon (Royal Ornament Edition)



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Yeah, saw the last couple of episodes a while back. I agree in that there was really nothing that stood out, and that's not because I already read the manga and knew the ending before hand. Rather, they weren't up to the standard set by the first OVA series 'cos I'm pretty sure the quality and pacing was much better then. The last OVA (Elysion) overall had a pretty significant lack of impact.



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