Saint Seiya

Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢 Seinto Seiya) is an anime series based on the shōnen manga created by Masami Kurumada and produced by the Japanese animation studio Toei Animation. It aired from October 11, 1986 to April 1, 1989 on Japan's TV Asahi, consisting of 114 episodes.

The story follows five mystical warriors called the "Saints" who fight wearing sacred armors named "Cloths", the designs of which derive from the various constellations the characters have adopted as their destined guardian symbols, and empowered by a mystical energy called "Cosmo". The Saints have sworn to defend the reincarnation of the Greek goddess Athena in her battle against other Olympian gods who want to dominate Earth.

Dubbing History[]

In July 2002, ADV Films announced at their Otakon 2002 panel that they had purchased the rights to release the series in North America. The following June, it was revealed that the company had only acquired a sublicense to the series through an agreement with children's entertainment company DiC Entertainment. The French studio announced that it had sold 40 episodes of the show to Cartoon Network for broadcast in the United States under the name Knights of the Zodiac.

DiC produced an edited English dub recorded in Toronto, Ontario by Kaleidoscope Entertainment. This version featured significant visual edits, storyline modifications and a cover of The Flock of Seagulls song "I Ran" by American rock band Bowling for Soup as its opening theme song. The series debuted on Cartoon Network in the United States on August 30, 2003. Parallel to DIC's dub, ADV Films produced their own uncut version under the Saint Seiya name. Utilizing an entirely separate voice cast from the Houston, Texas area, their dub was released on DVD from October 21, 2003 to May 31, 2005. While ADV intended to complete the dub of the series, they were only able to sub-license 60 episodes from DiC, as they had only licensed that many for their own adaptation.

Cartoon Network would end up pulling the series from air due to abysmal ratings. Though Cartoon Network initially planned to run the rest of DiC's dub in a late night slot, the show was pulled from the channel's schedule in April 2004 after 32 episodes aired. ADV Films would later release the first 28 episodes across 7 DVD and VHS releases between January and November 2004. In Canada, however, all 40 episodes aired on television, with the dub's conclusion airing on July 24, 2004.

In 2018, Netflix acquired the series in a deal with Toei, and on October 15, 2019, they released the first 15 episodes on their streaming service with a new dub containing much of the same cast as their voice cast for Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya; also recorded in Houston by Sentai Filmworks, where ADV previously dubbed the series and containing many members of the original dub's cast in other roles. 26 further episodes were released on October 24, 2019. 32 episodes were released on January 2, 2020, making it the first time that episodes 61-73 had been dubbed into English. The final 41 episodes were released on April 6, 2020, making Sentai's dub of the series the only one to finish to completion. It left Netflix on December 14, 2021. The Sentai dub was added to Crunchyroll on April 21, 2023.

Cast[]

Uncut Version (ADV/Sentai)[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	ADV Dub	Sentai Dub
Bronze Saints
	Pegasus Seiya	Tōru Furuya	Illich Guardiola	Bryson Baugus
		Hiroko Emori (young)	Cameron Bautsch	Crocket Groves
	Dragon Shiryu	Hirotaka Suzuoki	Jay Hickman	Blake Shepard
		Chiyoko Kawashima (young)	Luci Christian	¿?
	Cygnus Hyōga	Koichi Hashimoto	Jason Douglas	Patrick Poole
		Chie Satō (young)	Christine Auten (ep. 3)	¿?
			Rebecca Ayres (eps. 21, 40)
			Brenda Rodriquez (ep. 47)
	Andromeda Shun	Ryō Horikawa	Chris Patton	Blake Jackson
		Yumi Tōma (young)	Kira Vincent-Davis	¿?
	Phoenix Ikki	Hideyuki Hori	Mike MacRae	Adam Gibbs
		Noriko Uemura (young)	Kyle C. Jones	¿?
	Unicorn Jabu	Kōsuke Meguro	Vic Mignogna	Leraldo Anzaldua
		Akie Yasuda (young)	Sasha Paysinger	¿?
	Bear Geki	Yūji Mikimoto	Rob Mungle	Adam Noble
			Adrian Heredia (young)	¿?
	Lionet Ban	Hirohiko Kakegawa	Rick Burford	John Swasey
	Wolf Nachi	Hideyuki Tanaka (eps. 1-7)	Nathan Parmer	Cameron Bautsch
		Takeshi Kusao (eps. 8-114)
		Chie Satō (young)	Jessica Boone	¿?
	Hydra Ichi	Masato Hirano	John Swasey	Justin Doran
	Chameleon June	Hiromi Tsuru	Shelley Calene-Black	Chaney Moore
Gods
	Saori Kido / Athena	Keiko Han	Allison Sumrall	Emily Neves
	Julian Solo / Poseidon	Osamu Saka (mythological entity)		Clifford Chapin
		Keiichi Nanba
		¿? (young)
Gold Saints
	Aries Mu	Kaneto Shiozawa	Paul Locklear	John Gremillion
	Taurus Aldebaran	Tesshō Genda	Paul Oddo	Josh Morrison
	Pope Ares / Gemini Saga	Kazuyuki Sogabe	Mike Kleinhenz	David Matranga
		Hideyuki Tanaka (Good side)	Mike MacRae
		Kazuyuki Sogabe	Mike Kleinhenz
		Katsuji Mori (phantom)	John Swasey
	Cancer Deathmask	Ryōichi Tanaka	Rob Mungle	Jay Hickman
	Leo Aiola	Hideyuki Tanaka	Rick Piersall	Greg Cote
		Kyōko Tongū (young)	Afshar Kharat	¿?
	Virgo Shaka	Yūji Mitsuya	Ryan Worthington	Scott Gibbs
	Roshi / Libra Dohko	Kōji Yada	Paul Sidello	John Swasey
	Scorpio Milo	Shūichi Ikeda	Daniel Magill	Alejandro Saab
	Sagittarius Aiolos	Yūsaku Yara	Rick Piersall	Greg Cote
	Capricorn Shura	Kōji Totani		Jovan Jackson
	Aquarius Camus	Rokurō Naya	Jonathan Harvey	Kregg Dailey
	Pisces Aphrodite	Keiichi Nanba		Ry McKeand
Silver Saints
	Ophiuchus Shaina	Mami Koyama	Kira Vincent-Davis	Katelyn Barr
	Eagle Marin	Yuriko Yamamoto	Christine Auten	Maggie Flecknoe
	Lizard Misty	Yū Mizushima	Vic Mignogna	Gareth West
	Whale Moses	Kōji Totani	Andrew Klimko	Courtland Johnson
	Hound Asterion	Kazuo Hayashi	Jovan Jackson	Nathan Wilson
	Centaurus Babel	Yūji Mikimoto	Jim McClellan	¿?
	Perseus Algol	Akira Kamiya	David Born	Austin Tindle
	Crow Jamian	Naoki Tatsuta	Kyle C. Jones	Justin Doran
	Kerberos Dante	Akira Murayama	George Manley	Joe Daniels
	Auriga Capella	Katsuji Mori	Quentin Haag	¿?
	Tarantula Arachne	Ken Yamaguchi	Richard Kuehn	¿?
	Musca Dio	Ryōichi Tanaka	John Swasey	James Marler
	Heracles Algethi	Daisuke Gōri	Jason Miesse	¿?
	Canis Major Sirius	Ikuya Sawaki	Santry Rush	¿?
	Sagitta Ptolemy	Michitaka Kobayashi	John Dukes Dunivin	Michael Wronski
	Peacock Shiva	Shigeru Nakahara	Blake Shepard	Howard Wang
	Lotus Aghora	Takaya Hashi	Robert Leeds	¿?
	Cepheus Albiore	Keiichi Noda	Joey Goubeaud	¿?
Other Saints
	Crystal Saint	Michiru Ikemizu	Philip Lehl	Mike Haimoto
	Guilty	Hidekatsu Shibata	James Faulkner	David Harbold
	Gigas	Masaharu Satō	John Gremillion	¿?
	Phaeton	Hirohiko Kakegawa	John Swasey	¿?
	Docrates	Masaharu Satō	Dan Mackey	¿?
	Geist	Chiyoko Kawashima	Kaytha Coker	¿?
	Sea Serpent Saint	Masato Hirano	Vic Mignogna	¿?
	Dolphin Saint	Hideyuki Tanaka	Randy Sparks	James Marler
	Jellyfish Saint	Kazumi Tanaka	Eric Opella	¿?
	Flame Saint	Ken Yamaguchi	Andy Nelson	¿?
	Spartan	Shigeru Chiba	Tad Hathaway	¿?
	Leda	Kazumi Tanaka	Paul Hope	Clint Bickham
	Spica	Masami Kikuchi	Mike Vance	¿?
Black Saints
	Jango	Banjō Ginga	Chris Pruett	Rob Mungle
	Black Pegasus	Shigeru Nakahara	Illich Guardiola	Bryson Baugus
	Black Dragon	Ken Yamaguchi	Jay Hickman	Blake Shepherd
	Black Swan	Kazumi Tanaka	Jason Douglas	Patrick Poole
	Black Andromeda	Kaneto Shiozawa	Chris Patton	Blake Jackson
	Black Phoenix	Masashi Hironaka	Mike MacRae	Adam Gibbs
	Black Saints	Yūki Satō	Chris Nelson	¿?
			Don Rush	¿?
		Hirohiko Kakegawa	Kyle C. Jones	¿?
			Jacob A. Gragard	¿?
		Masato Hirano	Matt Crawford	¿?
			Joey Goubeaud	¿?
Steel Saints
	Shō	Shigeru Nakahara	Mark X. Laskowski	¿?
	Daichi	Mie Suzuki	Greg Ayres	¿?
	Ushio	Hōchū Ōtsuka	Christopher Ayres	¿?
Other Characters
	Kiki	Hiroko Emori	Karen Hatch	Kira Vincent-Davis
	Miho	Naoko Watanabe	Sasha Paysinger	Avery Smithhart
	Shunrei	Yumiko Shibata	Kim Prause	Hilary Haag
	Polaris Hilda	Mitsuko Horie		Molly Searcy
	Tokumaru Tatsumi	Yukitoshi Hori	Ron Howald	Ty Mahany
	Cassios	Banjō Ginga	Matt Culpepper	Andrew Love
	Mitsumasa Kido	Kōhei Miyauchi	Marty Fleck
	Esmeralda	Chisato Nakajima	Kelly Manison	Juliet Simmons
	Seika	Yuriko Yamamoto	Shelley Calene-Black	Lillian Jones
	Makoto	Noriko Uemura	Monica Rial	¿?
	Akira	Yumi Tōma	Tiffany Grant	¿?
	Tatsuya	Michiyo Yanagisawa	Greg Ayres	¿?
	Jacob	Tomiko Suzuki	Tony Oller	¿?
	Natassia (Hyoga's Mother)	Akiko Tsuboi	Robin Terry	¿?
	Galaxian Wars Announcer	Masashi Hironaka	Don Armstrong	¿?
	Dr. Asamori	Yasuo Muramatsu	Chris Nelson	¿?
	Okko	Kazuhiko Inoue	Scott Rudy	¿?
		Seiko Nakano (young)	Lidia Porto	¿?
	Jaki	Masaharu Satō	John Gremillion	¿?
	Elena	Masako Miura	Allison Norman	¿?
	Elena's Grandfather	Jōji Yanami	Stuart Halpryn	¿?
Gods Warriors of Asgard
	Dubhe Alpha Siegfried	Akira Kamiya		Blake Weir
	Merak Beta Hagen	Bin Shimada		Matt Shipman
	Alioth Epsilon Fenrir	Toshihiko Seki		Jay Hickman
Poseidon's Seven Marina Generals
	Mermaid Thetis	Hiromi Tsuru		Christina Kelly
	Kraken Isaac	Ryūsei Nakao		Joe Daniels
	Scylla Io	Issei Futamata		Kiba Walker
Others / Not Applicable
	Narration	Hideyuki Tanaka	Andy McAvin	Marty Fleck

Additional Voices[]

ADV Dub Christine Auten Christopher Ayres Eden J. Barrera Marta Bechtol Shelley Calene-Black Jin Ho Chung Matt Crawford Michael Daleo Patrick Givens Joey Goubeaud Jacob A. Gragard Tiffany Grant John Gremillion Joe Grisaffi Stuart Halpryn Karen Hatch Adrian Heredia Kyle C. Jones Sandra Krasa Kelly Manison Vic Mignogna Craven Mohred Amanda Nanawa Chris Nelson Eric Opella Mariela Ortiz Lidia Porto Kim Prause Henry Rogers Don Rush Gilda Santiago Randy Sparks Allison Sumrall John Swasey Jimmy David Taylor Shelly Thomas Gene Tognacci Tiffany Trichter Kira Vincent-Davis Mike Yantosca

Sentai Dub Austin Tindle

Knights of the Zodiac[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Pegasus Seiya	Tōru Furuya	Tim Hamaguchi
		Hiroko Emori (young)	Marc McMulkin
	Dragon Shiryu	Hirotaka Suzuoki	Dan Warry-Smith
	Cygnus Hyōga	Koichi Hashimoto	Stuart Stone
	Andromeda Shun	Ryō Horikawa	Andrew Sabiston
	Phoenix Ikki	Hideyuki Hori	Scott McCord
	Unicorn Jabu	Kōsuke Meguro	Robert Tinkler
	Bear Geki	Yūji Mikimoto	Drew Coombs
	Lionet Ban	Hirohiko Kakegawa	Bill Houston
	Wolf Nachi	Hideyuki Tanaka (eps. 1-7)	Jeff Berg
		Takeshi Kusao (eps. 8-114)
	Hydra Ichi	Masato Hirano	Robert Norman Smith
	Princess Sienna	Keiko Han	Stacey DePass
	Aries Mu	Kaneto Shiozawa	Shane Bland
	Grand Pope	Hideyuki Tanaka	Martin Roach
	Roshi	Kōji Yada	Bill Colgate
	Ophiuchus Shaina	Mami Koyama	Katie Griffin
	Eagle Marin	Yuriko Yamamoto	Tracey Hoyt
	Kiki	Hiroko Emori	Julie Lemieux
	Miho	Naoko Watanabe	Ayumi Iizuka
	Tokumaru Tatsumi	Yukitoshi Hori	Andrew Pifko
	Cassios	Banjō Ginga	Maurice Dean Wint
	Mitsumasa Kido	Kōhei Miyauchi	Neil Crone
	Esmeralda	Chisato Nakajima	Kim Kuhteubl
	Makoto	Noriko Uemura	Annick Obonsawin
	Akira	Yumi Tōma	Marc McMulkin
	Narration	Hideyuki Tanaka	George Buza

Additional Voices/Unidentified Roles

• Jeff Berg
• Shane Bland
• George Buza
• Drew Coombs
• Neil Crone
• Andrew Pifko
• Martin Roach
• Ron Rubin^[1]
• Robert Norman Smith
• Dan Warry-Smith
• Maurice Dean Wint

Notes[]

• Toronto-based actress Gabi Epstein listed Sienna on her resume, but her voice does not appear in the show. She was likely an original casting choice and was later replaced with Stacey DePass.
• Marty Fleck was the only actor from the ADV dub to reprise his role in the Sentai dub. However, many of the actors that were in the ADV dub, such as Kira-Vincent Davis, John Swasey, Rob Mungle, John Gremillion, Cameron Bautsch and Jay Hickman, also appeared in the Sentai one, but doing different roles than the ones they did in the ADV dub.
• Luci Christian, who also provided voice for the young version of Dragon Shiryu in the ADV dub, also did the gender-bended role of Andromeda Shun in the rebooted 2019 series.
• This is the second time Sentai Filmworks have used a child actor in one of their dubs (in this case, Crockett Groves).
• Interestingly, Blake Jackson who played Andromeda Shun in the Sentai dub was also in the rebooted 2019 series as Guard #2

Transmission[]

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2003-2004	Cartoon Network	United States
	YTV	Canada

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Dub	Region	Country
ADV Films	2003-2005		Episodes 1-60	ADV	1 NTSC	United States
			12 Volumes
	2004		Episodes 1-40	DiC	NTSC
			8 Volumes
			Episodes 1-40		1 NTSC
			8 Volumes
	2006		Episodes 1-60	ADV
			2 Volumes
	2009		Episodes 1-60
			2 Volumes

See Also[]

• Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - The Myth of Hades
• B't X

References[]

External Links[]

• Saint Seiya at the Internet Movie Database
• Saint Seiya (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia