Saint Seiya is mostly a serious anime but there are some times where it's more light-hearted.
One of the only times you'll see the boys look goofy.
- Seiya trying to clean his room before letting Saori enter in Episode 10.
- Even better because, when Seiya opened his door, he was shirtless and in pajama pants (he was washing his hair in the sink when that happened). Cue to him freaking out when it turns out the one checking in was Saori, who might be the richest girl in the world but is still a girl around his age deep down. And who blushes from head to toe in the most moe/adorkable manner ever, and then shyly waits at the door until Seiya is ready.
- Italian-dub induced fun: as he cleans, Seiya complains that Saori did not call him first, pointing out that at the Arena her arrival is announced by trumpets (and violins).
- And then in 2020 Ivo De Palma, Seiya's Italian VA, released Lady... Congiunta!
, where the script is altered in such a way that Seiya is trying to take advantage of the late April/early May slight release of the COVID lockdown to try and score with Saori.
- Docrates, a gigantic guy confronting Seiya and the other Bronze Saints to retrieve the helmet of Sagittarius, running away when hearing police sirens. "Oh, no! The police!"
- Episode 21 in the Italian dub, the mook who has his rifle broken by Hyoga and is then faced by the Saint himself reacts with an incredibly ridicolous-sounding and whiny "You meanie! You broke my gun!"
- Lizard Misty stripping down and taking a bath in the sea when he gets some of Seiya's blood on him, and, when Seiya turns out to have survived, standing naked and offering him a full view while Seiya repeatedly tells him to put his Cloth back on.
- In episode 26, in order to scout for more information about the Sanctuary, Seiya offers to lead the way to Greece since he's trained there for the past six years. Ikki wants to join him for the ride but Seiya shuts him down because he hasn't recovered yet from an earlier battle and Seiya instead asks Shiryu to come with him. Cue to Ikki still trying to convince Seiya to take him and Hyoga joins in also wanting to come along with them. Seiya then explains the reason Ikki and Hyoga can't come is because their scouting wouldn't work well as a group.
- It's just somewhat funny to see Ikki and Hyoga act like little kids who want to go on a field trip and seemingly the reason why Seiya didn't want them to come was because he wanted to have an excuse to only hangout with Shiryu.
- Made funnier, as the scene cuts to their journey to Greece, it shows Shun had joined the two which was the same amount of people that Seiya just earlier shut down.
- In episode 28, also the scene that features the picture of Seiya and Hyoga at the top of the page. When the creator of the Steel Saints tells Saori and the Bronze Saints of Mitsumasa Kido's plans and why he kept the Steel Saints a secret from her because he planned for them to help her when she becomes Athena, Seiya remarks that he always thought Kido was just a mean old man who liked torturing them as kids before Hyoga covers his mouth and scolds him for not thinking what he says.
- What makes this hilarious is they're both drawn in a borderline Super-Deformed style. Stuff like that is almost never present in the Saint Seiya media, so the Mood Whiplash makes things even funnier.
- Episodes 29 and 30 of the anime features Corvus Jamian. Every single scene with him is a Funny Moment, especially in the hammed-up Italian dub.
- Also, Jamian's death: the manga inserts describing the cloths show his cloth has wings (and Seiya did fly with his wings, once he discovered how to make them appear), but he died falling off a cliff.
- The Italian version of episode 30 turns Shaina's slut-shaming of Saori into one for a simple reason: the words are condemning Saori for almost kissing an unconscious Seiya, but the tone makes Shaina sound like she's grudgingly praising her for doing what she'd really want to do him.
- Heck, even the original dialogue carries that undertone. Why else would Shaina say "Be a good girl and leave Seiya to me"?
- Seiya trying to escape from the hospital with Miho chasing after him is quite funny. Miho CATCHING HIM and later having his arms tied up so he can't escape again is hilarious.
- A few episodes later, Seiya and Miho have a rather... romantic talk before he leaves to Greece to reach the Sanctuary. It's a rather sweet scene with them recalling their shared past and him promising to come back to her and the orphans... and then the three kids that Seiya personally befriended fall off a nearby tree.
- Then there's the time Seiya went to Miho's Orphanage of Love... and a little girl kicked him in the shin for not addressing her first.
- Despite the serious context, there's a funny bit when Shaina shows up at the hospital to try and kill Seiya in his sleep. Seiya fortunately wakes up before she claws his face out, and he says "Don't tell me you're still mad because of what happened between us!" like he's talking to a Psycho Ex-Girlfriend (which isn't actually that far from the truth).
- Special mention to the ADV English Dub, where Seiya chastises Shaina for breaking into the hospital after visiting hours, as if his priorities of her breaking into the hospital illegally is more worse than her actually trying to kill him.
- Manga-only, another thing for the hospital scene, when Shaina and Seiya notice Aiolia outside the hospital window, Seiya says this gem:Seiya: Eh? Aiolia? It's been a while since we saw each other! What are you doing so far from the Sanctuary? Don't tell me you came this far to see if I was doing well...
- The flashback showing Aiolos saving a baby Saori from Arles has a gem in the Italian dub when Aiolos questions the latter in full heroic tone of voice and blatant Antiquated Linguistics... only for Arles to pretty much shoot it down with a more mundane-sounding "Out of my way, idiot!"
- Seiya freaking out when Shiryu drags him out in the Gemini Temple and his befuddled expression as his friend explains the whole thing afterwards.
- During the Poseidon arc, when Ikki delivers his Curb-Stomp Battle against Lyumnades Caça, he suddenly shapeshifts to Shun. It doesn't work with Ikki, who impales his fist on Caça's chest. When Caça ponders how did it not work, Ikki tells him that he's an idiot trying to shapeshift into someone when the real deal is nearby.
- In the Italian dub, Caça doesn't freak out because he believes that he has finally found another member of his supposedly extinct clan... he does because, in his own words, he "can't take himself to hit someone as handsome as he is." That's right, The Grotesque Caça is a narcissist.
- Some Black Comedy courtesy of Shaka: after (barely) surviving the Tenbu Horin and checking which senses they still had, Saga, Shura and Camus notice they have one each: taste, whose loss keeps the other two from talking, sight, and hearing. Upon noticing what Shaka did, Saga chuckles.
- Aiolia's Bond One-Liner after defeating Worm Raimi is equal parts cool and hilarious:"Worms belong in the dirt."
- When the Bronzes first meet Zelos:Zelos: Do you know what happens to those who hurt me?! You have no idea!Seiya (not even fazed): Okay, what happens?
- The Charon fight from the Hades arc provided some moments of much needed levity among the high stakes of the rest of the arc. Bonus points for Charon being knocked back into his own boat by the end of it, and singing wearily all the way back across the Styx.
- When Seiya and Shun arrive at the First Prison of Hades’ Underworld, they are advised by a Specter mook to remain in complete silence, in order to respect Rune, the substitute Judge of the Dead, who hates loud noise. Seiya then proceeds to make lots of loud noises, like sneezing and generally provoking the mook.
- This is even more hilarious in the original scene of the manga, where he actually farts just to provoke the Specter.
