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Bells
12-03-2008, 02:08 PM
This is a thread for basiclu whatever is coming on 2009 that might not be in your radar... but mostly i wanted to post about this.

http://www.cavzodiaco.com.br/images06/lostcanvas_anime_oficial_1.jpg

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas.

A new OVA Series from the Saint Seiya Franchise (based on the new manga) is coming on DVD only formats in 2009. A new animation team is onboard, and they will keep the new artstyle as well.

It's great news, as Saint Seiya is actually a fairly interesting show ( It's dragonbll with Greek mythology really...) they had release a new OVA series telling the only Saga that never made out of the Manga, the Hades Story arch (the last one)

http://diegomaryo.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/main2.jpg

The first 13 Episodes are absolutly fantastic and i suggest anyone who has never seen it to go find them. They are really great... but the follow up......... not so much.

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/9438/7301zh2.jpg

Masami Kurumada (author) screwed with his own master work, and manage to kill his own budget for the sequel to the original 13 Ovas. So, what we got is at best a power point presentation with some animation in for good measure. Sucks so bad i couldnt actually watch it to the end.

There is also the last movie (Heaven Chapter: Overture), which is great if you can turn off your brain and dont care for the fact that it makes little to no sense at all...

Lost Canvas on the other hand is great, because, first, it will have proper Budget. Secondly, they hired a better animation team. And thirdly, it tells a fresh story. a Prequel if you will... telling the War between hades and athena hundreds of years prior to the main series.

I look foward to it! Specially because the new art is way better than the original and in this version the Gold Saint of Taurus dosent suck, even though im Aquarius :D

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8340/lostcanvasog4.jpg

Ugainius
12-03-2008, 02:22 PM
I've never seen such androgyny! Seriously though it looks... androgyny?

Okay too seconds ladsandrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandrogynya ndrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandrog ynyandrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandrogynyandro- there we go.

Anyway it looks... gah! there's so GOD DAMNED MUCH OF IT!!!

I'm tempted to avoid this like the plague but it might be good!

Damn thats a lot of androgyny

Also I'm thinking my spellchecker is failing thus possibly creating missworded hilarity! (or much more likely annoyance.)

Bells
12-03-2008, 05:31 PM
What? what are you talking about? Look at the Pisces Knight Aphrodite, he is manly

http://www.dragonballginfinite.blogger.com.br/afro1.jpg

...ok, maybe i should've pick a better one...

But hey, what other Animes you know that have a 14 year old girl slashing her own troat with a golden dagger right in front of the people who gave their lives to protect her so she could protect them?

Serisously... it can get just as fucked up as greek Mythology itself, but with a DBZ style to it

Regulus Tera
12-03-2008, 05:37 PM
Wait, what?! There's another Saint Seiya series coming out?!

*watdog.gif goes here*

Please tell me they are going to animate the Heaven saga. That movie was such a fucking teaser.

EDIT: http://www.cavzodiaco.com.br/images06/lostcanvas_anime_oficial_1.jpg

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas.

Oh god that art style is horrendous why did they not go with classic 70's-esque Kurumada's style this is such an outrage THAT'S IT I'm rioting tonight!

EDIT2: The first 13 Episodes are absolutly fantastic and i suggest anyone who has never seen it to go find them. They are really great... but the follow up......... not so much.

Ah, so that explains the suckitude of everything after Athena gets killed by the Gold Saints.