Saint Seiya/Trivia

Trivia about Saint Seiya include:

• Box Office Bomb: Tenkai Hen: Overture. It was originally meant to be a trilogy that would even show the return of the Gold Saints. However, these plans were obviously canned due to its enormous cost and poor reception.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Seiyuu from both Saint Seiya and Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas:
    • Shigeru Chiba: Spartan from the Classic series, the Narrator in Lost Canvas.
    • Kenyuu Horiuchi: Libra Dohko/Roushi from Hades Saga and Hakurei.
    • Hideo Ishikawa: Unicorn Jabu from Hades Saga and Tenkai Hen, Oneiros from Lost Canvas.
    • Hiroshi Kamiya: Lyra Orpheus and Pisces Albafica.
    • Takehito Koyasu: Classic Rhadamanthys and Nasu Veronica from Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas who not only out-fems Shun but sings as well.
    • Shinichiro Miki: Voiced the Specter Judge Aiacos (Saint Seiya), voiced Aries Shion in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas.
    • Kazuya Nakai: Voiced Worm Raimi from the Hades OVA and Capricorn El Cid?
    • Ryusei Nakao: Voiced Kraken Issac in the classic series and Southern Cross Christ from the first movie, voiced Icelus.
    • Takahiro Sakurai: Shiryu from the Hades Saga and Griffon Minos of Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas.
    • Maaya Sakamoto: Pandora from the Classic series, and 15th Century Athena from Lost Canvas.
    • Toshihiko Seki: Milo from Hades Saga, Pope Sage in The Lost Canvas.
  • Seiyuu who were both in Saint Seiya and a Gundam series:
    • All Five Bronze Saints were in at least one Gundam Series.
      • Seiya: Amuro Ray and Ribbons Almark
        • With Shiryu doing the Bright Slapping.
      • Ikki: George Glenn, Lord Djibril, Schwarz Bruder and KYOJI!!!
        • With Hyoga pulling the strings as Wong Yunfat.
      • Shun: Kou Uraki
    • Scorpio Milo: he is a CHAR!
      • With Athena being fiercely loyal to him as Lelah Sune.
      • And after he got darrin'ed: He may run and hide, but he will NEVER tell a lie!
    • Aries Mu: M'Quve and Cameron Bloom.
      • Darrin'd Aries Mu: George De Sand.
    • Cassios and Jango: Gihren Zabi.
  • Seiyuu who were in both Saint Seiya and the Dragon Ball series:
    • Seiya: Yamcha.
      • Latin American Dub Seiya: Yamcha.
    • Shun: Vegeta.
      • ADV Dub Shun: Turles
    • Ikki: Captain Ginyu.
    • Shiryu: Tenshinhan.
    • ADV Dub Hyoga: King Cold (DBZ Kai).
    • Chameleon June and Mermaid Thetis: Bulma.
    • Kraken Issac: Freiza.
    • Thanatos: Piccolo.
    • Kiki and Young Seiya: Chaozu.
    • Eris: Chi Chi.
    • Miho: Darrin'd Chi-Chi, Puar
    • Shaina: Launch.
    • Heracles Algethi: Hercule/Mr.Satan.
    • Crow Jamian and Skeleton Marchino: Oolong.
    • Icarus/Touma: Android 16
    • Spartan: Emperor Pilaf, Raditz and Garlic Jr.
    • Sea Horse Bain: Zarbon
    • Aries Mu: Namu, Tenron, Three Star Dragon (GT)
    • Frog Zelos: Brolly!?!
    • Odin: Shenron.
    • Sagittarius Aiolos and Phecda Gamma Thor: Slug.
    • Mitsumasa Kido: Master Roshi.
    • Black Pegasus, Sho, Shiva, Alberich: Android 17
  • Seiyuu who are manly enough to be on Saint Seiya and have enough femininity to play a Pretty Soldier:
    • Seiya: Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Mask
    • Shun: Thomas Harris (ep 119) and Yoshiki Usui (ep 140).
    • Shiryu: Sailor Guts (ep 174).
    • Geist and Young Shiryu: Sailor Pluto.
    • Athena: Luna and Queen Beryl.
    • Hilda: Sailor Galaxia.
    • Shaina: Green Esmeraude.
    • Capella , Belzebub , Lynx Jao , Gemini Cloth (Phantom episodes 44-46): Nephrite.
    • Pisces Aphrodite and Julian Solo: Zoisite.
    • Gemini Saga: Kunzite.
    • Aries Mu: Prince Demand.
    • Icarus/Touma: Fiore.
    • Spica: Kakeru Oozora (Hearts in Ice)
    • Siren Sorrento: Misha (ep 39)
  • Others:
    • Polaris Hilda is the very popular Idol Singer Mitsuko Horie (Playing Against Type).
    • This troper, being Indonesian, recalled that back in the first airing of Saint Seiya Indonesian dub, the dub voice of Cygnus Hyoga is the same guy who dubbed Kotaro Minami/Kamen Rider Black.
    • Cepheus Albiore was Tetsuya Tsurugi from Great Mazinger whose partner was a half black girl named Jun.
    • Sweet innocent Shun also voices the emotionless gun toting Sosuke from Full Metal Panic!. (at least in the ADV dub)
    • Crystal Saint's most famous role was the Hot-Blooded Isao Ohta from Patlabor.
    • All three Judges and a few Specters of the Underworld are in Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo.
      • The Mean Brit badass Rhadamanthys stars as Bobobo.
        • His subordinate Harpy Valentine is King Nosehair and Zeb Ziegler.
        • Specter Algol serves as Don Patch.
      • Griffin Minos was Forgiveness Mask and Nightmare.
      • Garuda Aiacos is Halekulani.
    • The Blue haired/Blue Cloth Spica also was Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Despite its popularity, you'll never find Saint Seiya in English past episode 60 or any of the five movies and the Hades OVAs.
• Real Life Relative:
  • Ikki and Tatsumi despise each other, but did you know that the two actors who play them, Hideyuki Hori and Yukitoshi Hori are really brothers?
  • If a man sees an Amazon's face they either have to love them or kill them. Seiya and Shaina were forced into this dilemma, but in real life, Tohru Furuya and Mami Koyama did get married. Unfortunately it failed but they are still friends.
• Talking to Themselves: Seiyuu who do more than one character on Saint Seiya:
  • Banjo Ginga: Cassios and Jango
  • Issei Futamata: Scylla Io and Hypnos
  • Chiyoko Kawashima: Geist and young Shiryu
  • Yuji Mitsuya: Virgo Shaka and Benethosh Eta Mime.
  • Yuu Mizushima: The Badass Orion Jagar, Sid, Bud, and Lizard Misty?
  • Katsuji Mori: Capella , Belzebub , Lynx Jao , Gemini Cloth (Phantom episodes 44-46)
  • Shigeru Nakahara: Black Pegasus, Sho, Shiva, Alberich
  • Keiichi Nanba: Pisces Aphrodite, Julian Solo, Freyr, Asteroth and Scutum Jan
  • Kaneto Shiozawa: Aries Mu and Black Andromeda.
  • Hideyuki Tanaka: Leo Aiolia, Dolphin, Pope Shion (ep 1), Wolf Nachi and the Narrator throughout the classic, first movie, Hades Inferno and Elysium arcs.
  • Ryoichi Tanaka: Cancer Deathmask and Fly Dios
  • Koji Totani: Whale Moses and Capricorn Shura
  • Hiromi Tsuru: Chameleon June and Mermaid Tethys.
  • Ken Yamaguchi: Tarantula Arachne, Black Dragon and the Flame Saint.
  • Yuriko Yamamoto: No surprise, she voiced both Marin and Seika.
  • Yusaku Yara: Sagittarius Aiolos and Phecda Gamma Thor.
• Troubled Production: The Hades Saga:Inferno and Elysium. Kurumada was so upset with Toei that he fired all five of the Bronze Saint voice actors,casted new ones, and got another studio to do the animation that was so bad that most of the scenes were mostly traced from the manga.
• What Could Have Been:
  • While YMMV on the redesigned V1 anime Cloths, there was concept art featuring Seiya and Shiryu with original manga colors and Cloth designs as well as a Red and Yellow Seiya and Ikki with his Manga colors and Cloth design. Image taken from the website, Mu's Corner.
  • In the Manga, Scorpio Milo was to be Hyoga's Master. In fact, if you look closely, you can see the outline of Milo and not Camus. This probably explains why Milo was show early on speaking to the Pope as well as the attack that sank Hyoga's Mother's ship resembled a well-placed Scarlet Needle. Image taken from Mu's Corner.
  • Had the show not been cancelled, the Hades Saga would have been made. In fact, a CD was released in 1990 with cover art of what it may have looked like using the Classic animation style. The songs that were on the CD were eventually used in the OVAs in 2003.
  • Kanon was originally not in the Poseidon Saga, but due to Executive Meddling was put in as The Chessmaster of the entire thing. Had none of this happened, Kanon would have been the good counterpart to Saga instead of the two being evil. This was later fixed in Saint Seiya: Next Dimension where there is one Good Twin and one Evil one.
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