Saint Seiya Episode.G
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 Leo Aiolia on the cover of the first volume. |
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| 聖闘士星矢EPISODE.G (Seinto Seiya Episōdo Jī) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Drama | ||
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| Author | Megumu Okada, under commission by Masami Kurumada | ||
| Publisher |  Akita Shoten |
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| Demographic | Shōnen | ||
| Serialized in | Champion RED | ||
| Original run | December 19, 2002 – ongoing | ||
| Volumes | 13 | ||
Saint Seiya Episode.G (聖闘士星矢EPISODE.G Seinto Seiya Episōdo Jī?) is an ongoing manga published in the Champion Red magazine since December 2002. It is based on the original Saint Seiya manga, which was created, written and illustrated by renowned mangaka Masami Kurumada. Episode.G is set 7 years before the events at the beginning of the original Saint Seiya Manga, and 6 years after the death of the Gold Saint Sagittarius Aioros. Unlike the original series it is written and illustrated by Megumu Okada. As Kurumada only supervises it, its status as canon or not is unknown.
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[edit] Plot introduction
In ancient times, the Titan Cronos (son of Uranus the sky and Gaia the earth) and his wife Rhea gave birth to six children. Five of them were swallowed by Cronos, and only one was saved, Zeus, hidden from Cronos by Rhea. Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus forced his father to vomit the other five gods. Zeus, along with his brothers and sisters, decided to battle the Titans for control of the universe. Cronos and the other eleven Titans lost the battle and were sent to Tartarus.
Thousands of year later, in Greece, the Pope visited the room of the recently reincarnated infant Athena, with a golden dagger.
Before he can kill her, the Gold Saint Saggitarius Aiolos saved her, and unmasked the Pope. Aiolos, horrified, fled. The Pope then declared him a traitor to the Sanctuary, and had Capricorn Shura murder him.
This caused his younger brother, Leo Aiolia, to grow under the shadow of his "traitor" brother, suffering from all manner of abuse and scorn.
It left him with a grudge against the Gold Saints and Sanctuary as a whole, which caused the Pope and most of the Sanctuary to distrust him.
To make things worse, the enemies of Zeus, the Titans, were revived and began to seek vengeance against him and the Sanctuary. This marked the start of Aiola's story and the battle of the Gold Saints against the Titans.
[edit] Gaiden
The tankōbon usually contain short gaiden, which tell the stories of other characters. Some have little relevance to the overall plot of Episode.G, with characters that play no part in the main story.
In October of 2007, a new Gaiden series started being published with Episode G. This new Gaiden series is situated a few years before the main plot, and details the exploits of Saggitarius Aiolos in Egypt.[1] A younger Aiolia and Garan also appear in this story.[2] The story about Aiolos will appear in special volume of Episode G called "Volume 0" that is set to be released on May 20th from 2008. The "Volume 0" will also contain an encyclopedia of all the manga from Episode.G.
[edit] Style
Saint Seiya Episode.G is different than its predecessor in that is drawn and written by Megumu Okada (岡田芽武). Masami Kurumada (車田正美) gave the original idea of the "Gold Saints' youth" to Okada.
Megumu Okada draws his characters much more stylised than Kurumada, with thin and slender bodies, big eyes, and little noses. One noteworthy thing about Okada's style is the amount of tone and detail he puts into his characters; everything is toned in some shape or form. Comedy scenes are seen more than in the original manga and in these scenes the characters are drew in a super deformed state. Leo Aiolia's hair is red in this manga (though there is a plot-related explanation), so as to differentiate him from his older brother, Saggitarius Aiolos.[3]
[edit] Mythological adaptation
Episode.G is not entirely faithful to the mythological details it is based on, Many alterations have been made in order to pit the all the twelve first generation Titans against the Sanctuary. This include the fact that Oceanus and all Titanesses openly warred against the Olympains, and consequently earned them the same punishment as the other six Titans.
Episode G also portrays Titans as almost human. Most of the Titans are the very structures of the world itself and their sizes were, therefore, described as geographically large in mythology. However, Episode.G humanizes them, and depicts them in totally human appearances. Although, in the adaptation, their diminished divine forms and physical strength seemed to be compensated by their enormous black Cosmo, and their virtually unbreakable armors, given by Gaia, serving as both destructive weapons and almost impregnable defenses, called Somas (Soma, or σώμα, literally means body in Greek).
In Hesiod's Theogony, Erebus and Eros was born from Chaos alone, however, in Episode.G, adaptations were made and they became children of Gaia instead, along with Ouranos and Pontus. And Ourea, the other of Gaia's first generation children, is omitted from the story.
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[edit] Chapter guide
This is the list of manga chapters of Saint Seiya Episode.G. In Japan, there are two versions of the Saint Seiya Episode.G volumes. One is the original version while the other a "Deluxe edition" that has a different version of the cover (most being only one Gold saint without Aiolia) and usually comes a large number of merchandise.[4]
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| 1 | June 19, 2003[5] | ISBN 978-4253231114[5] |
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| 2 | October 23, 2003[6] | ISBN 978-4253231121[6] |
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| 3 | February 19, 2004[7] | ISBN 978-4253231138[7] |
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| 4 | July 29, 2004[8] | ISBN 978-4253231145[8] |
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| 5 | November 25, 2004[9] | ISBN 978-4253231152[9] |
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| 6 | April 29, 2005[10] | ISBN 978-4253231169[10] |
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| 7 | July 20, 2005[11] | ISBN 978-4253231176[11] |
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| 8 | December 20, 2005[12] | ISBN 978-4253231183[12] |
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| 9 | May 18, 2006[13] | ISBN 978-4253231190[13] |
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| 10[14] | August 18, 2006[15] | ISBN 978-4253231206[15] |
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| 11 | February 20, 2007[16] | ISBN 978-4253231251[16] |
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| 12 | February 20, 2007[17] | ISBN 978-4253231268[17] |
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| 13 | December 20, 2007[18] | ISBN 978-4253231275[18] |
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| 14 | May 20, 2008 | ISBN 978-4-253-23128-2 |
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[edit] Volume 0
The "volume 0" is a volume containing a story about the past of the character Saggitarius Aiolos as well as an encyclopedia about the series. It will be released on May 20, 2008.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ [1] Accessed 2008-28-11.
- ^ [2] Accessed on 2008-28-11.
- ^ [3] Accessed 2008-29-11.
- ^ Saint Seiya Episode. G (manga). Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G (チャンピオンREDコミックス) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE. G 〈2巻〉 (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G 3 (3) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE.G (4) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE.G (5) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G 6 (6) (チャンピオンREDコミックス) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G 7 (7) (チャンピオンREDコミックス) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G 8 (8) (チャンピオンREDコミックス) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b 聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G 9 (9) (チャンピオンREDコミックス) (コミック). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ The volume 10 contains an image gallery of eight pages instead of a Gaiden chapter
- ^ a b Saint Seiya Episode. G volume 10. Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b Saint Seiya Episode. G volume 12. Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b Saint Seiya Episode. G volume 12. Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ a b Saint Seiya Episode. G volume 13. Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
[edit] External links
- Saint Seiya Episode.G (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Akita Shoten official website (japanese)
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