Saint Seiya the Movie

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Saint Seiya the Movie: The Legend of the Golden Apple

Genre	Action, Drama, Shōnen, Fantasy
Movie: Saint Seiya Gekijoban/Jashin Eris
Directed by	Kôzô Morishita
Studio	Toei
Released	July 18, 1987 (Japan)
Runtime	46 Minutes

Saint Seiya: the Movie/ Saint Seiya: Evil Goddess Eris(DVD title)(Saint Seiya Gekijoban, Saint Seiya Jashin Eris DVD)is a film based off the popular manga and anime series called Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada. It premiered in Japanese theaters in the year 1987 where it was a success and received a sequel the year after with Saint Seiya: Kamigami no Atsuki Tatakai.

1 Plot
2 New Characters
- 2.1 Ghost Saints "Ghost Five"
3 Trivia
4 See also

[edit] Plot

The movie is an independent movie but can be fitted inbetween the 12 temples arc and Seiyas hospitalization. It starts of with Seiya, Hyoga and Shun visiting the Orphanage where they save one of the children from being run over. A new character called Erii is revealed as a second caretaker at the orphanage. She starts having feelings for Hyoga and at night they are sitting outside watching the stars, when suddenly there's a falling star. As Erii makes a wish, it is stolen by Eris the greek goddess of Discord who uses it to revive herself. Things get terrible when Eris takes possesion of Erii's body and kidnapps Athena to her own Sanctuary. As she plans to gain control of the world by sucking out all the energy of the goddess with her golden apple, Eris revives dead saints to fight for her. The protagonists receive the news about the kidnapping and sets of towards Eris sanctuary. As they enter the sanctuary they fight various battles between the revived saints, and it ends up with the saints being killed again.

In the end after a struggle with the last of the "Ghost Five", Jaguar of Orion; Seiya is helped by the spirit of the deceased Aiolos who sends the Saggittarius Gold Cloth to his aid. As Jaguar is defeated, Eris is the only one left between the earths salvation and destruction. Seiya takes aim at the golden apple, but hesitates with the fear that the arrow might hit Athena. The Goddess herself encourages Seiya to use his courage and shoot the arrow, which he does to Eris dismay.

After the Goddess of Discord has returned to the realm of the dead, the saints escape the crumbling sanctuary and there they walk towards a more peacefull world.

[edit] New Characters

Eris: Goddess of Discord

Goddess of discord, Eris tempted Ellie with a golden apple to possess her and uses her as a tool to start chaos in this world. As she caught Saori Kido (Athena) she placed a golden apple in front of Saori's chest to drain her power and life force till the point that she no longer need Erii's body and proceeds with her plan to take over the world.

Seiyuu: Toshiko Fujita

In Greek mythology, when Eris was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis due to her trouble making nature, she tossed a golden apple on the ground in front of Hera, Athena and Aphrodite that inscribed "to the most beautiful goddess" which sparked a contest between the 3 goddess and eventually lead to Trojan War.

Erii

Erii (絵梨衣): A volunteer at the orphanage (where Seiya grow up) whom was tempted by the golden apple that Eris sent in order to use Erii's body to come to this world. Erii and Hyoga had a close connection when they first met.

Seiyuu: Mayumi Shô

[edit] Ghost Saints "Ghost Five"

Christ (Ghost Saint of Southern Cross)

Birthdate: Unknown

Birthplace: Unknown

Training Location: Unknown

Techniques: Southern Cross Thunder Bolt

Seiyuu: Ryuusei Nakao (中尾隆聖, なかおりゅうせい)

Christ died sometime before Athena was kidnapped, and is thus recognised by Hyoga in the purpose of Christ being the southern and Hyoga the northern cross. Feeling restless and tormented by his death as he lay in his grave, he put aside his saint title and joined Eris. Who revived him with a new body, but as he faces Cygnus Hyoga and gets an advantage over him. Christ is betrayed by Eris who sees this as a good opportunity and throws a spear from behind him and pierced right through his heart killing him and injuring Hyoga at the same time.

Named after Christ, the anointed one.

Maya (Ghost Saint of Sagitta)

Birthdate: Unknown

Birthplace: Unknown

Training Location: Unknown

Technique: Hunting Arrow Express

Seiyuu: Michitaka Kobayashi (小林通孝, こばやしみちたか)

He has a similar personality as Pegasus Seiya, but he would fight to the death if it meant winning. He proves this when he faces Seiya, to first talk with him and then attack with all his strength. Unfortunately he is no match for Seiya, but one of the arrows from his attack Phantom Arrow Express makes it through Seiyas defense. As Seiya removes the arrow with ease he later tries to get Maya to tell where Saori is but leaves when he doesn't get a response. Maya says in his last breath that the arrow is actually poisonous, and only one is enough to remove your five senses.

Jaguar (Ghost Saint of Orion)

Birthdate: Unknown

Birthplace: Unknown

Training Location: Unknown

Techniques: Megaton Meteor Crash

Seiyuu: Yuu Mizushima (水島裕, みずしまゆう)

Said to be one of the most powerful Silver Saints and served Athena with honor. But after he was killed he held a grief to being forgotten and the loneliness that comes with being dead. So he didn't hesitate Eris' offer and were soon revived with a new body to fight for the destruction of the world. Though as he faced Phoenix Ikki, he found this foes strength to be almost equal to his. Yet when Ikki explained the meaning of friendship the saints had, he hesitated for awhile but still continued to fight Ikki. Jaguar was interrupted when Pegasus Seiya obtained the Saggitarius Gold Cloth, and after having his strongest attack blocked by Seiya he was defeated by him. In his last words he confirmed that Seiya really was a true Saint.

Named after the Jaguar being a hunter, as Orion was.

Yan (Ghost Saint of Shield)

Birthdate: Unknown

Birthplace: Unknown

Training Location: Unknown

Techniques: Bone Crush Screw

Seiyuu: Keiichi Nanba (難波圭一, なんば　けいいち)

Yan is an apparent saint that died in vain, this may well have been caused by his straight forward and jump into action personality. As he was restless in is grave he gladly accepted Eris' offer, and where soon revived given a new body. He faced of with Dragon Shiryu and to his advantage, the Scutum cloth has a stronger shield than the Dragon cloth. So in a mere minute he had defeated Shiryu, but by gravely underestimating the Dragon saint he was soon defeated as Shiryu unleashed all of his cosmo into one single attack, and were killed.

Orpheus (Ghost Saint of Lyra)

Birthdate: Unknown

Birthplace: Greece

Training Location: Unknown

Techniques: Stringer Requiem

Seiyuu: Yuji Mitsuya (三ツ矢雄二, みつやゆうじ)

The legendary mythical person himself, as expressed by Andromeda Shun.

After his failure of bringing Eurydice back, he died with regrets. This led to that he gladly took Eris offer and got revived in a new body. As he faced of Shun he seemed to be a calm and subtle person, but as the fight progressed he showed his evil side. After ensnaring and almost killing Shun with his Stringer Requiem, he was cut short with Phoenix Ikki's arrival. Ikki used his Genma Ken to finish him, but since Orpheus already had suffered through hell hebrushed it of with ease. Wasting no time he attacked with his Stringer Requiem again, but this time Ikki unleashed his Ho o Yoku Tensho at him and he was killed.

Named after the Greek mythical musician Orpheus.

[edit] Trivia

During 3 months, the author of Saint Seiya created and designed the new five saints. The movie versions where created of the scetches he had made.
In Japan it was named simply Saint Seiya: The movie, but in some countries around the world it received the name The Legend of the Golden Apple (or similarities)
This is the only movie (excluding Tenkai Hen: Overture) that fit in the original story and plot.