History Anime / SaintSeiyaSoulOfGold

* ShipTease: Deathmask's remark about Aphrodite on episode 3.
** {{Subverted}} when it turns out he had a crush on Helena, the owner of the flower shop. [[spoiler: Only to have her [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dying]]. See the ILetGwenStacyDie entry above.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:Saint Seiya Soul of Gold]]

The latest entry in the ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' franchise, ''Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold'' premiered on April 11, 2015. The first episode had a preview showing on April 21st, 2015. It follows, as an anime-only arc, the Gold Saints just after their death during the Hades chapter, who come back to life on Earth, [[GrimUpNorth Far up North]], in Asgard. There, a new group of God Warriors, Odin's warriors, have been awoken.

** CastFromHitpoints: [[spoiler: Said Sapphires amplify the users´ Cosmo but slowly drain their soul]].
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: Loki's ultimate objective is to obtain Asgard's ultimate weapon, the Spear of Gungnir, from the fruit of Yggdrasil once it's fully ripen. When seeing the destruction wrought by one strike from it, destroying the Odin Robe, and greatly damaging the whole land of Asgard, it definitely deserves that name.]]

** [[spoiler: The dagger that Saori used to kill herself in the Hades Arc reappears and it's used to create a gap in Yggdrasil so it can't absorb the Gold Saint's Cosmo.]]

* AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler: The God Warriors get new, red Odin Sapphires that increase their cosmos to even the battlefield after they lose their HomeFieldAdvantage and the Golds get a better handle of the God Cloths ]].
** CastFromHitpoints: [[spoiler: Said Sapphires amplify the users´ Cosmos but slowly drain their soul]].

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: A very unusual In-Universe example;The Gold Saints have long been established to be the most powerful non-god members of any army, being stronger than Poseidon's Generals and the other God Warriors, and being matched only by Hades' Judges, and even they get curb-stomped by the Gold's stronger members. And, in a series where the Golds get God Cloths, the only ones who could possibly be a threat to them, power-wise, would be GODS. Hence, the series is constantly changing the power balance to give it a genuine sense of tension, first [[spoiler: giving the God Warriors a HomeFieldAdvantage that both makes them stronger AND drains the Golds' Cosmos, making the God Cloth a necesity for victory]], and, when that is taken care of, [[spoiler: giving the God Warriors an AmplifierArtifact]].
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:Something dark is growing inside Yggdrassil and it's using human lives to feed. Episode 4 ends with Aphrodite defeated and implied to be drained out of his cosmo and life for this thing to feed.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Sigmund is imprisoned in the original Asgard-arc because he immediately noticed the change in Hilda's cosmo when was possessed by the Nibelungen Ring (controlled by Poseidon).

** This can arguably be justified by the fact Camus merely stated that emotions should not stand in a Saint's duty, which he thought he had fully accomplished by dying again for Athena at the Wailing Wall. Therefore, he thought he could use this second unfettered life to fulfill his pledge to Surtr.

** [[spoiler: Utgardar is eventually revealed as this when the markings show up on his body.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Episode 13's opening secuence you can briefly see [[spoiler: Julian's possessed eyes, foreshadowing his intervention on getting 5 Gold Cloths to Elysium, like in the original manga.]]

** Episode 13 has ''two'' nods in the same scene. [[spoiler:After Loki is defeated and the Gold Saints are ready to die again, they muse about how they wish to send their cloths to Seiya and he others in Elysium. Poseidon then reveals himself, saying their cosmo wake him up and is willing to send the cloths; then Hilda is suspicious of him because of his manipulation of her in the Asgard saga but realizes they have no better option.]] This wraps up ''Soul of Gold'' in both ''Saint Seiya'' manga and anime's continuity.
*** FridgeLogic: However, while the events of the series take place in a few days, it is not possible that it's been so long time also for the Bronze Saint in the Elysium. Unless, there, the time does not flow more slowly than on Earth.

** Episode 13 has ''two'' nods in the same scene. [[spoiler:After Loki is defeated and the Gold Saints are ready to die again, they muse about how they wish to send their cloths to Seiya and he others in Elysium. Poseidon then reveals himself, saying their cosmo wake him up and is willing to send the cloths; then Hilda is suspicious of him because of his manipulation of her in the Asgard saga but realizes they have no better option.]] This wraps up ''Soul of Gold'' in both ''Saint Seiya'' manga and anime's continuity without problems.

** [[Loki thought he had summoned the Gold Saints as this, tricking Lyfia in performing the ritual, but he was OutGambitted by Odin who chose her to be his next representative. This explains why the markings on the Gold Saints and on Utgardar or the EliteMooks are different.]]
** [[Ultimately revealed in Episode 12: the Gold Saints were resurrected by Odin himself, when Loki attempts wiping out their life essence after doing so to his other EliteMooks, and realising this failed. Lyfia, as Odin's representative, explains that the Gold Saints have been fully resurrected, with full freewill and their abilities, thus averting this.]]

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Odin pulls an epic one and OutGambitted ''Loki'', the Trickster God of Norse myth, of all people. Hilda was out of commission, and Lyfia was tricked into resurrecting the Gold Saints, which were to act as a power source for his EvilPlan and as zombie puppets. What did Odin do? Promptly take over Lyfia as his representative, and resurrect the Gold Saints in his name, with their full abilities and powers, so they could stop Loki.]]

* CameBackStrong: Arguably, all the Gold Saints, since they now can summon God Cloths, unlocking a further degree of power than what they could before dying at the Wailing Wall.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: The Gold Saints suffering from ResurrectionSickness seems to indicate this at first. Also, when Loki brings out his EliteMooks, the Einerjahrs, Dohko points out they don't have Cosmo or anything, and they look like plain zombies, so these fall in this trope. Loki also fully intended for the Gold Saints to come back wrong, but got OutGambitted by Odin.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Arguably, Loki with powering up Yggdrasil to produce Gungnir from the Gold Cloths. This enables them to have a modicum of sway over Gungnir's attacks and screw with Loki.]]

* ResurrectionSickness: Gold Saints using their full powers and overexerting themselves, such as when activating their God Cloths, will feel bouts of weakness and collapse, as shown when the Einerjahr markings appear on their bodies, and this is implied this is a consequence of their resurrection.

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: Loki ultimate objective is to obtain Asgard's ultimate weapon, the Spear of Gungnir, from the fruit of Yggdrasil once it's fully ripen.]]

** Andreas gives the God Warriors a new batch of Odin Sapphires, though these serve as power-boosters rather than keys to summon the Odin Robe. [[spoiler: doesn't stop Frodi from summoning the Odin Robe anyways for Aiolia to don during the fight against Loki though.]]

* DemonicPossession: It is suspected it is what happens to Lyfia, or something close enough that the difference is moot.

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Dohko openly teases Aldebaran about his former defeat against a God Warrior.

** Shaka and [[spoiler:Balder]]; one being said to be the closest man to God while the other is said to be [[spoiler: immortal and maybe a god himself]], for extra points, both have long hair.
** Aldebaran and [[spoiler: Heracles]] both being their teams´ resident Big Guy but one being calm, serene and kind while the other is aggressive and is willing to hurt innocent people.
** Mu and [[spoiler: Fafner]]; both being their teams smart guys, but one is a PragmaticHero, and uses his intellect to analyze a situation and for the greater good, while the other one takes sadistic pleasure in experimenting with innocent people and mercilessly tortures his opponents.
** Aiolia and [[spoiler: Frodi]]: both being the perfect image of the brave hero on their side, both having ties with Lyfia. But Frodi fanatically believes in his cause, and Aiolia seeks to find the true reasons behind their resurrection and the battle.

** [[spoiler: Not anymore as of Episode 5, thanks to Aiolia, Aldebaran and Milo destroying the crystals at the base of Yggdrasil.]]

* TheWorfEffect: In the episode 6 is revealed that Aiolos was resurrected before the other Gold Saints. But has faced immediately Andreas and, weakened by Yggdrasil, he was beaten (managing only to injure Andreas's eye).

** [[spoiler: All for former God Warriors appears in episode 9: Sigfried, Mime, Syd, Alberich, Thor, Hagen and Fenrir.]]