Saint Seiya 16
Posted: March 9, 2009 Filed under: Knights of the Zodiac 1 Comment »While I had some sort of moral quandary about whether to call a series LoveCom or Lovely Complex, I have no problem calling this one by its Japanese name, which is entirely unrelated to the English title. I don’t know why it doesn’t give me pause. It probably should.
I’m told that the series gets better again after the Poseidon Saga, and I just need to power through this part, which is not very long. I mean… it’s got all the stuff that makes the series awesome, like characters being killed and miraculously coming back to life, characters being blinded, characters dealing the “final blow” again and again and again as they try to outmatch each other, and lots of marveling over each other’s cosmo. If you don’t like this stuff, you probably don’t like Saint Seiya.
But I feel like these talents could be applied in better ways than fighting the Poseidon Knights. Though Lymnades does manage to lay everyone out. That was actually quite impressive. I also got a ridiculous kick out of the part where he begins to fool Ikki again. I have no idea why the story went through all the motions just to fool the reader. I wish more manga did that.
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