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This movie is a travesty. I'll admit the shiny CG had me excited, it looked like the fights would be amazing, and they were pretty cool indeed, but that needed up being the only good thing about this movie.

The first sin is the butchering of characters. Seiya is not Seiya. In the original series, he acts like a chill guy who just has no interest in this Athena stuff and outright dislikes Saori until changing his attitude and commiting to protect her. Now, I understand that obviously there isn't enough time for this whole arc in the movie, but they could have had him ... act his normal self. What did they do instead? Turned him into way too talkative of a person who has wacky awkward moments with girls, because now we're moving onto sin number 2. (I don't care enough to complain about the other characters because honestly they're not developed enough).

The second son is the god awful comedy. It's already bad enough, but makes it worse when it takes you out of the experience. I mean for God's sake, there's a musical number in the movie. And all this time and resources could have been used to better develop the plot since it's already hampered from having to be squeezed into such little time.

The third sin is just random stupid bullshit. A Final Fantasy type end boss, shitty and pointless redesigns, a Gold Saint being killed off 10 seconds after their introduction because as I said, resources went into musical numbers, a centaur form...it's just all so tiresome.


Some positives: as I said, the action can be really cool. The majority of the Cloth redesigns look spectacular, and the others, while not looking bad exactly, just aren't AS good. Some of the characters look amazing in this CG, while the rest look horrible, not because of the CG, but because of the redesign.

As I said with the Netflix series: don't bother, just do yourself a favor and watch the original show. If you can, try as hard as possible to the Zera-subs version.

There's been a lot of Anime that I thought would be the first one I'd review, I guess this ended up being it. I've tried not to be biased in thinking about it having been a fan of the original show, one of the first Anime I saw, so I ended up adding a couple points to the overall score, but it is still just a 4/10.

Art/Animation

There's a lot of bad CG Anime out there, but if I'm being entirely honest this isn't all that bad based solely on the look. I'll honestly admit I actually LIKE the way the characters look. It's new while ... still being close to the original designs. However, the animation itself many times comes off as just lazy. The Galaxian Wars (don't get me started on how sad it is that it happens in a basement with no spectators) is a great example of this. It seem to improve for the Black Knight fights but only barely, and in the end the same problem that they only last seconds is still there. Another notable example is the helicopter crashing.

Sound/Music

Credit where credit is due, the Pegasus Fantasy cover dub is great. Props to them for that. Every other part of the soundtrack though is just terribly generic. Voice acting in the dub is fine, but here is where I'll give out one of my main complaints from being a fan of the original: all the name changes are insult. Sienna was bad but already done in the Viz manga releases. Long instead of Shiryu? Okay, I can understand that being hard to pronounce correctly but still pointless. Nero instead of Ikki? Come one, it is not that difficult to say his name. Magnus instead of Hyoga? Honestly fuck you Netflix, how is that in any way better/easier?

Story

What a travesty. The addition of the military is unneeded to this story. The only part of their addition I like is that the Black Knighta make a bit more sense this way even if I don't fully like how they were handled. There's a lot that makes it obvious this was treated more as a kid's cartoon that a classic Anime: The AI man-cover; the horribly cheesy one-liners (and if you pay attention, sentences that contradict themselves); the power of friendship scene (this happens in the original as well, I'm just complaining on how they handled it. Lastly, and by far the biggest insult to the original series, is changing Shun into Shaun, not just in name but in gender. The beauty of his character was that he wasn't a warrior in the same way his friends are. He's sweet and kind, a and naturally caring. Someone who is generally opposed to violence but will fight if necessary to protect the ones he cares about. So of course they turned him into a girl. I would have been angry if they changed anyone else into a girl too, but doing it to him is just slightly worse. I'm sure they would have blundered adding a new character by making her super OP though. Whatever.

Overall

Just watch the original, kids aren't so sensible that the fights/blood are so bad, and it's a better story. The only con to that one is no dub (we don't talk about the unfinished one that's just terrible anyways). 4/10 so far for the 6 episodes released, doubt I'll watch any more, but hate watching is addictive so who knows.