Saint Seiya: Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque

Very bad remake. Saint Seiya is a legendary anime. It has created a wonderful memory for me. The producer is clearly under qualify and does not understand why children/people around the world love this anime. Helicopter, generic dark saint, cartoon like CGI, underwhelming fight scene etc. These characters are legendary. You change it's name to some generic name..

Dumb, sanitized, Americanized, likely homophobic take on Saint Seiya. They should have not called it Saint Seiya if they only want to borrow the design characters and some scenes off the manga but getting the whole world view wrong or Americanized.

As if characters can't be grey, KotZ (not going to call it Saint Seiya) split Mitsumasa Kido into two characters, one good while another evil. The evil one is a military guy who doesn't believe in superstitions but want to use technology to take the power of the gods. ....wait, is this guy supposed to represent America? The theme of science/technology/rationality vs gods/magic/supernatural is to me clearly American. And even here it got Saint Seiya wrong: where as Cosmo in Saint Seiya is natural power that exists in every being, now Cosmo seems to be a supernatural power. Freak of nature. Unnatural. Totally different philosophy than original StS.

Also, they changed an iconic feminine, stereotype-breaking male character into a stereotypical token female character. Is it to avoid showing tender moments between two men like between Hyouga and Shun later? Or is it because the writer only understands stereotypes and can't accept a feminine male character who wears pink?

The point of Shun in the series was to show that men can be delicate and sensitive and wear pink and there is nothing wrong about that. They completely missed the point of the character and what it represents by turning him into a woman. There was so much potential here.. Horrible decision! I started it but I can't continue watching it. Whoever had this idea, needs to be fired asap.

Horrendous graphics, zero drama, Netflix didn't even understood that the music was a central piece of this series.

It's not unwatchable, just Americanized. Bad dialogue and corny. It's enjoyable but don't expect the original. I personally preferred the 3D animation of the last movie.