YMMV / Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary

• Ass Pull: During the climax, the Pope summons a giant Anubis-like statue to fight the surviving Gold Saints.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Deathmask's Villain Song upon his introduction feels like one.
• Fan Nickname: The One-Winged Angel version of Saga towards the end has been renamed Sagazilla.
• Heartwarming Moments: The Stinger, with the Bronze Saints throwing a birthday party for Saori.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Remember the first version of the Saggitarius Gold Cloth◊, which had a helmet covering almost the entire face? As the second trailer shows, in this movie the helmets of the Bronze Saints (And some of the Golden Saints as well) do the same thing.
• It Was His Sled: Gemini Saga is alive and well — oh, and he's the real villain behind everything. Although, granted, it is done in a more subtle way than in the original manga and anime, which gave it away so clearly that it was barely a mystery by the third Temple.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Many fans weren't exactly thrilled with another revisit to the Sanctuary arc.
• Never Live It Down: Aphrodite and Death Mask still get the short end of the stick in the movie.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • Saori. She is nicer toward the Bronze Saints than her manga and anime counterparts, and unlike in previous versions the arrow in her heart gradually weakens her rather than putting her in a coma, meaning she is still awake for most of the movie and actually tries the best she can to help them directly. Not that she can do much beside healing them and trying to reason with the Gold Saints, but still, the effort is appreciated.
  • Her butler, Tatsumi, is much more likable here than his manga counterpart, where he is a Gonk child beater and a Jerkass towards anyone but Saori and Mitsumasa Kido.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • The reaction to some of the new redesigns of the characters, particularly the Gold Saints.
  • The Gender Flip of Milo caused this reaction among several fans of the character and purists fans of the original Saint Seiya.
  • Deathmask's redesign looking like Jack Sparrow, alongside his extreme personality change of being a very sadistic villain to a Laughably Evil but still sadistic antagonist with his house serving with a Villain Song was not well received.
  • Saga turning into a giant monster in the climax. Wut?!
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Because of the severe Compressed Adaptation, many characters ended up with very reduced goals. Interestingly enough, the three characters with this criticism are related.
  • Andromeda Shun. While all Bronze Saints have their characters simplified yet still having their signature moment from the 12 Houses arc, Shun is the exception, as his fight with Aphrodite - an interesting villain in the source material, is cut. In the movie, Aphrodite goes KO after two lines and doesn't even throw a single punch.
  • A lot of non-Japanese fans weren't pleased to find that Ikki didn't have a super-badass Moment of Awesome, like he usually did in both the previous movies and the series as a whole.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: While the film is criticized for many reasons, nearly everyone agrees that the animation is absolutely stellar and possibly the best visual treatment the franchise has ever received. It really conveys the sheer power the Saints have in a way that had never been seen before, and there was a lot of special care put into the animations of the characters themselves to better convey their personalities.