Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque : St Seiya, tome 5

聖闘士星矢 Saint Seiya #5

by Masami Kurumada

When the Grande Foundation sent 100 orphans around the world to train as Knights, one unfortunate orphan was sent to the most horrific place on Earth, the terrifying Death Queen Island. He left a gentle boy but returned a twisted killer, hell-bent of destroying every other Knight--including the little brother he once loved! Can the Knights of the Zodiac withstand his brutal attacks and find a way to bring back some part of the kindly boy who once was? Or will they simply meet their demise at his vindictive hands?

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fantasy, Adventure, Mythology, Graphic Novels

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Masami Kurumada ( 車田正美, Kurumada Masami, born December 6, 1953) is a Japanese and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and/or mahō shōnen. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and modern society's archetype of the true men. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and pursue to achieve courage and manhood perfection through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the best success award with Saint Seiya and the best inspiration award with Ring ni Kakero.

Reviews

[Vitor Frazão]

Dois motivos me farão saltar agora directo para o volume 19:
1º a manga não diverge muito da anime por isso sei perfeitamente o que irá acontecer até ao despertar de Hades.
2º estou a achar extremamente difícil encontrar online os volumes entre o 5 e o 19. Apanho um aqui, outro ali, mas para ler aos fragmentos mais vale saltar por completo. O que é muito estranho, uma vez que encontro mangas mais antigas e obscuras.
Talvez um dia tenha acesso a eles mas para já quero passar às partes da história que desconheço.

[Cel Red]

Ikki es más badass aquí que en el anime. Sí, sí es posible. Mu es el troll por excelencia desde tiempos inmemoriales <3

[Victor Sosa]

Muy cómica la escena del caballero de Lagarto, entiendo que Kurumada quiso personificar a la belleza, pero hay niveles.

[Pata]

Todo este tomo es un "pero qué..." continuo. Me ha flipado.

[Desire Manara]

Vieja edición argentina en tankoubon mucho antes de que se instauraran las sobrecubiertas. Años después se incluyó estos mismos capítulos en la edición kanzenban, ahora sin aclaraciones.

[Brandon]

The first half of this volume finishes the fight against Ikki, and thus the Black Saints Arc. I will admit, it's been so long since I've read the previous volume, so I was a little lost, which... actually kind of worked out well for me; these two chapters with Ikki were good as fuck, and I'd forgotten how... not boring necessarily, just... I didn't care too much for how the Black Saints were just clones of our heroes. Ikki is his own man, which is cool. And he's also basically the Hiei/Vegeta/Sasuke of the story, or so he felt here, which is maybe weird to say because... he came before those characters. But whatever.

Anyway, we jump almost immediately into the Silver Saints Arc without any sense of a breather. I'm not sure I care too much for this breakneck pacing, but I'm also just assuming this is simply how the manga will be, moving forward. And, honestly, the manga isn't too long overall, so the fact that it seems like it will just be fight after fight for nearly thirty volumes doesn't seem very bad at all. Unfortunately, the first Silver Saint fight isn't great; Misty is done by the end of the volume, meaning he lasted shorter than Ikki, which kinda-sorta fucks the power-scaling. The main thing here is Seiya evolves his Meteor Fist into the Comet Fist by concentrating the attack from a spread of punches to a more focused strike-point. Then he comes up with the Rolling Crash, which is basically a Cosmo-fueled suplex or something, and has nothing to do with his basic punch attacks, but whatever. This evolution of Seiya's fighting style works well for the manga thus far, but I just hope future Silver Saints will be stronger-seeming than Misty. My fear right now is that the other three Bronze Saints will have 1-on-1 fights against Silver guys for the simple narrative purpose of giving them all new techniques, which... could be boring for being formulaic. But we'll see. I think the Gold Saints Arc isn't until Volume 8, meaning the Silver Saints won't be around for too long, which could be good or bad depending on how Kurumada goes with it.

[~Cyanide Latte~]

Like I said, still reading these "totally legal" scans of the volumes, but I did order a copy of the sixth volume from Right Stuf Anime (because they randomly had it,) so the next review will probably be a legit copy of a volume being held in my hands.

Anyway, I feel like we went from a really powerful emotional wrap-up of this initial arc with all the drama surrounding Phoenix knight Ikki (there was a hella big reveal in that mess, too) right into some major WTF territory. It's nice to see the appearance of Silver Cloth Knights when they appear, even if it's not under the best of circumstances, because it definitely exposes just a little more lore and world-building that's gone into this series. However, everything that kind of occurs as a result once that happens just seems very sudden, very fast and more than a little out of left field. Also, was I supposed to care about Misty? Or...?

This is one hell of a crazy train ride. I'm looking forward to going through the rest of the volumes as best as I can but yeesh, is this something else.

[Lennon Motta]

This manga has just become even more interesting. I was aware there were small differences between Manga and Anime, but this volume just blew my mind.

I did set the spoiler alert, so here it goes.

All knights have the same fucking father!?

What the fuck, my little bros from different mommas and pappas?

What happened here? Can someone explain it to me? I watched the anime in my mother tongue which is Portuguese. I am quite sure this was never mentioned in the Anime, at least in the Brazilian Portuguese dub version.

Does anyone have anything to tell me about all of this?

Please and thank you.

[Regalia Lenzi]

Seiya jest cały, może i nie zdrowy, ale od czego mamy polowego lekarza Shiryu? Chciałabym wiedzieć, gdzie te punkty witalne są u naszego Rycerza Pegaza i czy ostatni jest tam, gdzie myślę. Nooo, patrząc na załączony obrazek, to nie. Ale zachowanie Shuna, no nie spodziewałam się takiego zagrania. Chociaż i tak wiele z tego nie wyszło, bo nasza gromadka szumnie przypuszcza szturm na Feniksa, a czy to się uda czy nie - cóż, ja wiem, bo pamiętam animację :)

A tak wgl to trzeba zauważyć, że ta cała 'Fundacja' to pic na wodę. Lejo ich i wysyłają gdzieś w pizdu po zbroje i co? I nic, jak się temu nie uda, to się kolejnego wyśle. Doprawdy, miłosierny samarytanin był z tego Kido.

[FunttiDiva]

Ma chronique ici.

[Dony Grayman]

Primera edición argentina en formato tankoubon sin sobrecubiertas. Tomo 5 de 28.
Tendría que revisar en qué tomo de la kanzenban se incluyen estos mismos capítulos.

[Jimmie Hua]

Can’t complain about more Ikki lore, in the end the power of friendship wins. Silver knights seem cool and powerful too

[Fugo Feedback]

Siempre me pareció espantosa también esta tapa con Seiya con el peto pero sin la remera XD
Pero este tomo tenía el final de la minisaga contra Ikki y los Black Four así que banco.
Lo leí de prestado y lo conseguí un par de años después, pero no recuerdo cuándo fue la última vez que leí esta edición.

[Sebas]

find

[Galion Public Library Teens]

A.J. liked "all of it" and recommends the book to "anyone."