Knights of the Zodiac, Vol. 4: Ketsusen! Black Cloth!

聖闘士星矢 Saint Seiya #4

by Masami Kurumada

Seiya, who is one of Athena's Knights, along with the other Bronze Knights, must train hard, take on battles and other challenges to earn their "Cloths."

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

192 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

[~Cyanide Latte~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

While reading this from that "totally legal" website, I went looking up the physical copies again and it looks like if I dish out close to $20 USD I could get a copy of this volume. Tempting, really.

Thankfully, the shit that happened at the end of the last volume got cleared up in this one pretty early on, so I'm a little less astonished at it. The use of classic shonen tropes and a group of protags who just refuse to die got a little over-the-top in this volume, though.

I've got to give the series this though, it stays very engaging, so these scans I'm reading are very fast to get through.

[Regalia Lenzi · Rating 4 out of 5]

No to Pegaz dostał nową zbroję, ale tylko przez chwilę rozpaczał nad ceną tejże. W końcu inne pryorytety są na liście panny Saori. Andromenda jest chyba tym ze sceptyków, bo przecież nie ma żadnego dowodu, że Shiryu nie żyje. I jak to nasz kochany Seiya usłyszał, od razu się... zaświecił? A Kiki biedny jak dziecko przy kasie zostawione przez matkę, bo ta poleciała jeszcze po mleko.

I wiecie co? czarny Pegaz walczy z Pegazem, Czarny Łąbądź z Hyogą, ale z kim będzie się bił Ikki? Pewnie nasz główny bohater, przybędize z wywaloną klatą i wiodk ten stopi zlodowaciałe serduszko Feniksa xD

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

As I said last volume, I don't really like how the Black Saints are all functionally evil clones of the main Bronze Saint heroes. They say stuff about being orphans as well, and Black Dragon has a twin brother with a similar Cloth, so how the fuck is everyone a mirror image of the good guys!?

Anyway, there's still some cool shit here, despite the antagonists being less than interesting. Neat gore with the eye and stuff.

[Lauren · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a bad manga, just not my favorite at all, I had high hopes for it sadly.

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Totally freaking rad.

[Pata · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esto es muy gore 🥲
Y qué pasa con toda esa gente que muere y luego no está muerta

[FunttiDiva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ma chronique ici.

[Lucas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I give 5 stars since it's a classic from my childhood, but that are always some plot issues like "where did all those black bronze knights came from?", some things are super random in the plot

[Kapitol Tank]

Vieja edición en tankoubon sin sobrecubiertas. Primer tomo en recopilar 5 capítulos en vez de cuatro (aunque sin numerar, son los #13 a #17).

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Cuarto tomo de Saint Seiya, los caballeros del zodiaco, edición argentina.

[Galion Public Library Teens · Rating 5 out of 5]

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