Art of Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac
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Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac is an animation series produced by Toei Animation in 1986. The anime was based on the homonym manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. The series was directed first by Kozo Morishita and then by Kazuhito Kikuchi. The character designers were Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno, and Seiji Yokoyama composed the soundtracks. Following Kurumada's storylines from the manga closely, the chief scriptwriters were Takao Koyama and Yoshiyuki Suga. The series has three main parts: Sanctuary (episodes 1–73), Asgard (which exists only in the anime adaptation, episodes 74–99), and Poseidon (episodes 100–114). The anime was cancelled and left unfinished in 1989, leaving one arc of the manga not animated, until finally being adapted into a series of OVAs in 2002. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this series.
THE STORY
An orphan named Seiya is forced to go to the Sanctuary in Greece to obtain the Bronze Cloth of the Pegasus constellation, a protective armor worn by the Greek goddess Athena's 88 warriors known as Saints. Upon awakening his Cosmos, (the power of the Saints which is an inner spiritual essence originated in the Big Bang), Seiya quickly becomes the Pegasus Saint and returns to Japan to find his older sister. Because his sister disappeared the same day Seiya went to the Sanctuary, Saori Kido, the granddaughter of Mitsumasa Kido (the person who sent all the orphans to train) makes a deal with him to go to fight in a tournament called the Galaxian Wars. In this tournament, all the orphans who survived and became Bronze Saints must fight to win the most powerful Cloth: The Sagittarius Gold Cloth. If Seiya goes to compete there and wins, Saori would start a search to find Seiya's sister…
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