


Main article: List of Saint Seiya characters Certain objects and pieces of information that was previously published in the Saint Seiya Encyclopedia are used in the story such as one of Athena's 88 armors, the Crateris Silver Cloth.
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The parts published in black and white will be available in full color in their respective volume compilation. The following parts have continued being released in black & white accompanied by various colored pages. Parts 15 and 16 were published in a black & white format complemented by one color image each. During the first 14 chapters, the borderline of the pages was also colored to look like a starlit night sky, this was changed to standard white in part 14 and further chapters as well as in the compiled volumes. The first chapter was initially called Prologue ①, however, the "①" was removed in the collected first volume or tankōbon. In addition each chapter is presented in full color. įollowing Masami Kurumada's traditional writing and drawing style, the storyline unfolds in typical shōnen manga narrative. In Volume 2, in his personal message, Masami Kurumada apologies for the delay of the second volume revealing that he was sick for a long time in the spring of 2009.
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The series have kept up sporadic releases, with brief intervals of week-to-week publication, but Masami Kurumada updates his blog after a longer interval to show the next upcoming chapters. Short chapters came to be published once or even trice per month due to its sporadic release until Januwhen the next chapter didn't get released until August 2, 2007. On April 21 he posted an image of Hades, Lord of the Underworld, on his blog. Masami Kurumada first announced the start of the follow-up to his famous Saint Seiya series in 2006. Former Bronze Saints Dohko and Shion, two prominent characters in Kurumada's original manga as the sole survivors of the holy war of that century, have just been promoted to Gold Saints and eventually the two duos share a meeting. The protagonist, the Pegasus Saint of this era, is an orphan who is best friends with a boy named Alone, the host of Hades in this era. He thus starts reminiscing about his previous host body, and the story starts 247 years prior, in the 18th century. During the battle, Hades remembers that he has seen Seiya's face before and comes to the conclusion that he faced him before. Having wreaked havoc in the Underworld's army of Specters and succeeding in resurrecting their armors into "God Cloths", they engage the god Hades in a final duel to the death. In the year 1990, in Elysion the five Bronze Saints of Athena Seiya, Hyōga, Shun, Shiryū and Ikki are locked in deadly combat. Saint Seiya Next Dimension was conceived by Masami Kurumada as a prequel to his Saint Seiya manga, parting from elements revealed in it but never further developed and explored then, hence, he started writing and drawing Next Dimension by opening the storyline in a prologue, with a flashback to the last battle of his original manga, contained in vol.
