YMMV / Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho

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• Awesome Art: If there's something that the manga has being praised for, it is for the beautiful drawing style of Chimaki Kuori, with attractive character designs and detailed panels who represent faithfully the devastating attacks of the characters.
• Awesome Music: The anime OP, "The Beautiful Brave" is what you get when you combine anisongs with Power Metal.
• Broken Base: Due to this series being yet another franchise installment that hypes up the Gold Saints, you have audience members tired of their presence and wanting the main characters to get more personality and fights. Others are still happy they're there, as it provides more insight to their personalities.
• Continuity Lockout: Having watched Saint Seiya before is a must to understand all the events that are happening and the characters.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mayura was well received by fans for being an effective Action Girl and one of the few Silver Saints in a modern work of Saint Seiya to prove to be useful and not depicted as fodder to hype some new enemy. That her fighting style kinda resembles that of Shaka (one of the most popular Gold Saints of the franchise) and other Virgo saints may have helped.
• Les Yay:
  • Shoko and Kyoko cross this with Incest Yay Shipping. Close sisters since childhood, Kyoko protected and cared for Shoko and joined the Saintias to become stronger for her; years later Shoko repays the favor.
  • Mii is very devoted to Athena and accompanies her everywhere.
• Never Live It Down: Once again, Saori keeps playing the role of a Damsel in Distress here. What's more jarring is that just after being saved from death in the Twelve Houses arc, she is almost immediately kidnapped by Eris.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many fans were unhappy when it was revealed that the anime adaptation of the manga would follow the classical style of the classic Saint Seiya anime instead of the one of the manga, especially when the other popular spin-off of the franchise that was adapted to anime, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, kept the original art style of the manga (due being adapted by a different studio). On top of that, often times the animation would get so bad that it no longer resembled Shingo Araki's style.

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