The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in their greatest battle yet.
Score
Seiji Yokoyama's orchestral melodrama cranked to eleven.
Practical Effects
Every Saint dies dramatically at least twice. Iconic.
Director
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Toru Furuya
Seiya (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Shiryu (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
Ikki (voice)
Ryo Horikawa
Shun (voice)
Koichi Hashimoto
Hyoga (voice)
Keiko Han
Saori Kido / Athena (voice)
Kazuyuki Sogabe
Saga (voice)
Akira Kamiya
Atlas (voice)
Katsuji Mori
Jaow (voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Berenike (voice)
Taichiro Hirokawa
Abel (voice)
Koji Totani
Shura (voice)
Keiichi Nanba
Aphrodite (voice)
Ryoichi Tanaka
Deathmask (voice)
Rokuro Naya
Camus (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film features an original villain because Kurumada was still writing the manga; Abel was created specifically to let the anime team go absolutely feral with god-tier battles.
Saint Seiya's theatrical films defined 'shounen movie syndrome'—non-canon, higher stakes than possible, everyone dies, zero consequences. This is the blueprint.
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