Saint Seiya: Episode Zero - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - "To Whom I Trust"
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Saint Seiya was one of the mangas of my chilhood, so well I'm thinking of reading everything again after so much time... and, wow... Can´t say I'm disapointed, we are talking about the "Kidou Mitsumasa is the biologic father of the 100 orphans" here... And I can´t blame this of bad writing either... All the concepts here are great and the ideas are still fresh[1] after so many years... It's just that the structure isn´t simple as connecting A and B... It's like connecting A and Q and miss everything in between!
Really came here believing that some of these holes would be shut down after so much time... But he just rewrote the filler of the anime... So many headscratchers all of them left unanswered... To say he didn´t add anything NEW he gave Shikamaru techinique (though Kageshibari is old as japanese literature) to Aioros and suddenly Atomic Thunderbolt isn't that much a half assed technique anymore... and for some reason Deathmask and Aphrodite are there as support cause Shura by himself wasn´t credible enough to stop Aioros for the first time... and blink and you miss as Deathmask making a reference to the CG movie?
The testament is there as it was his way to say that he too doesn't forget past details... This and Nikki following Athena... though it bugs me how inconsistent the little Saori stance is... The fact that Aioros spare his comrades cause they will be valuable assets in the fight against Hades is laughable and all but the fact that any giving time the infant goddess could've saved not only Aiolos, but Saga and even Shion but somehow decided not to cause the threads of fate, or the demands of plot said so... I just can't decide if she is more of a jerk or just incompetent... But given her present self modus operandi I'm willing to bet in the later...
Don't have much to pick against Saga since he just resigned himself to his "tragic and inevitable destiny"...
And so we have Shura... I was sure they could fix his part in all this mess of a flashback, but he that didn't think too much before attacking a hostage Athena not only but twice... Though the first time could be excused as he sure is precise enough to cut only Aiolos except that if he died from the attack exactly there no one considered him dropping the baby and giving her a concussion... And later that night after everything they witnessed cause of his respect for his sworn brother at arms he just let them fall from the bridge and invokes the "We have reserves" trope! In hindsight the concussion idea doesn't seem to be an unhappy accident anymore... and then years later while fighting Shiryuu he seems truly surprised by the revelation that the baby was really Athena... He didn't have any plan or faith in Aiolos words, he half assed everything!
And there it is I can't understand how everything Kurumada-sensei mind really works and can´t help as to think in Saint Seiya as one of the better things I ever read... God have mercy on me...
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mr. Poneis
[1] Up to this summer 2018 nobody worked around the 88 constellations motif to completition...
Really came here believing that some of these holes would be shut down after so much time... But he just rewrote the filler of the anime... So many headscratchers all of them left unanswered... To say he didn´t add anything NEW he gave Shikamaru techinique (though Kageshibari is old as japanese literature) to Aioros and suddenly Atomic Thunderbolt isn't that much a half assed technique anymore... and for some reason Deathmask and Aphrodite are there as support cause Shura by himself wasn´t credible enough to stop Aioros for the first time... and blink and you miss as Deathmask making a reference to the CG movie?
The testament is there as it was his way to say that he too doesn't forget past details... This and Nikki following Athena... though it bugs me how inconsistent the little Saori stance is... The fact that Aioros spare his comrades cause they will be valuable assets in the fight against Hades is laughable and all but the fact that any giving time the infant goddess could've saved not only Aiolos, but Saga and even Shion but somehow decided not to cause the threads of fate, or the demands of plot said so... I just can't decide if she is more of a jerk or just incompetent... But given her present self modus operandi I'm willing to bet in the later...
Don't have much to pick against Saga since he just resigned himself to his "tragic and inevitable destiny"...
And so we have Shura... I was sure they could fix his part in all this mess of a flashback, but he that didn't think too much before attacking a hostage Athena not only but twice... Though the first time could be excused as he sure is precise enough to cut only Aiolos except that if he died from the attack exactly there no one considered him dropping the baby and giving her a concussion... And later that night after everything they witnessed cause of his respect for his sworn brother at arms he just let them fall from the bridge and invokes the "We have reserves" trope! In hindsight the concussion idea doesn't seem to be an unhappy accident anymore... and then years later while fighting Shiryuu he seems truly surprised by the revelation that the baby was really Athena... He didn't have any plan or faith in Aiolos words, he half assed everything!
And there it is I can't understand how everything Kurumada-sensei mind really works and can´t help as to think in Saint Seiya as one of the better things I ever read... God have mercy on me...
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mr. Poneis
[1] Up to this summer 2018 nobody worked around the 88 constellations motif to completition...
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