YMMV / Saint Seiya: Next Dimension

• Arc Fatigue: Next Dimension covers a single story arc over a little over 100 chapters, but a sporadic release schedule with multiple hiatuses meant the story began in 2006 and took over 17 years to get close to a conclusion.
• Badass Decay: Although it's a tradition that every main character from the series goes through this, this time Memetic Badass Ikki takes the biggest hit. He was the most overpowered main character and in this series he has already gone through three Curb-Stomp Battle where the enemy spared his life or somebody else saved him.
• Fandom Rivalry: Since Next Dimension also has some prequel elements, some of the most purist fans tend to dismiss Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas as an invalid, non-canonical work. By contrast, The Lost Canvas fans consider it better written than Kuramada's canon sequel.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Despite being written and illustrated by the original author Kurumada, this sequel of Saint Seiya is quite disliked, due to having quite a Recycled Script, recycled characterizations and not improving the flaws the original series had (in example Saori still being a Damsel Scrappy and Tenma being just as Hot-Blooded as a character as Seiya). Even more ironically that the previous prequel using the same setting, The Lost Canvas is a lot more well-liked.
• Franchise Original Sin: Masami Kurumada's storytelling being criticized as being repetitive and with recycled characterizations was already a problem in the original Saint Seiya, with the "Poseidon arc" feeling like a re-read of the Santuary arc in places (with the character Chrysaor Krishna being very similar to Virgo Shaka during his fight against Ikki, to put an example), and Hades the character not feeling that different from Poseidon.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Tenma as Seiya's predecessor to the Pegasus Cloth. It doesn't help there is nothing to distinguish the two other than Tenma's backstory. It's even more ironic when you consider the fact that in the TLC series released prior, Tenma is actually a 200+ year-old Expy of Seiya due to being more rational, calm and likeable. This also shows just how vastly different Kurumada and Teshirogi (TLC author) are in their way of story-telling.
• Narm:
  • Although Kurumada's artwork has improved since the classic series there are times that characters' expression are funny looking. A common example is ridiculous tears in chapter 56 when Dohko's face will make laugh more one than another.
  • Cancer Deathtoll is just as much of a douche as his successor from the classic series, and he fights with coffins! When he realizes that Tenma and Shun are Asian, he tries to seal them in traditional Japanese coffins called Hayaoke. Which look like giant, shoadily put together barrels. And Tenma falls into his head-first, so his legs are sticking out of his barrel for half of the fight. Then there is the scene where he finishes off Griffon Vermer with his posterior.
• Nightmare Fuel: The walls of the Cancer temple are lined with the faces and bodies of the dead.
• Older Than They Think: Before Next Dimension used them, Saint Seiya: The Sanctuary for the PlayStation 2 had a secret What If? scenario with a hidden 13th Ophiuchus Temple and the Ophiuchus Cloth becoming a Gold Cloth.

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