As a fan of Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac, I was not pleased as I was watching through this movie. It felt like a really shallow adaptation of the ever famous Sanctuary arc.
One of the things that bothered me was the need to Power Ranger-ize the cloths. What was wrong with how the cloths were designed? No need to add in a stupid helmet and face mask. Though, I can get behind how the cloths could be summoned by necklaces, because really, do you really need to lug around a box like that everywhere you go?
Another thing that bothered me was that we never got any time to know about the characters and the background. Yeah, we know about Saori, but what about her knights that are bound to protect her? We know next to nothing about Seiya, Shun, Hyoga, Shiryu, and Ikki at all, other than stuff the characters tell us, rather than showing us. We never got to develop any of the characters because we knew nothing about them, same goes for the Gold Saints.
Some of the changes in the story irked me since the original Sanctuary arc was very regarded as an arc that dealt with a lot of personal battles and how the characters grew from their battles and had their resolves tested, and yet, we didn't get any of that whatsoever, heck, some of the temples were even skipped or characters were killed before we even get to see them (i.e. Aphrodite Pisces).
If you liked it, that's fine. As for me, it was another failed and shallow adaptation of a series I grew to love while I was in middle school.
Gonna need an Athena Exclamation for this film.
As a fan of Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac, I was not pleased as I was watching through this movie. It felt like a really shallow adaptation of the ever famous Sanctuary arc.
One of the things that bothered me was the need to Power Ranger-ize the cloths. What was wrong with how the cloths were designed? No need to add in a stupid helmet and face mask. Though, I can get behind how the cloths could be summoned by necklaces, because really, do you really need to lug around a box like that everywhere you go?
Another thing that bothered me was that we never got any time to know about the characters and the background. Yeah, we know about Saori, but what about her knights that are bound to protect her? We know next to nothing about Seiya, Shun, Hyoga, Shiryu, and Ikki at all, other than stuff the characters tell us, rather than showing us. We never got to develop any of the characters because we knew nothing about them, same goes for the Gold Saints.
Some of the changes in the story irked me since the original Sanctuary arc was very regarded as an arc that dealt with a lot of personal battles and how the characters grew from their battles and had their resolves tested, and yet, we didn't get any of that whatsoever, heck, some of the temples were even skipped or characters were killed before we even get to see them (i.e. Aphrodite Pisces).
If you liked it, that's fine. As for me, it was another failed and shallow adaptation of a series I grew to love while I was in middle school.