NEWS

Here there are the news of Saint Seiya directly from Japan: new gadjets, new OAVs, events...

FEBRUARY 2004: FIFTH MOVIE
Great new: there will be a fifth movie!
Maybe it is the introduction for the series of Zeus.

It isn't a rumour: this information is in an official magazine and in the Toei home page:
http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/ova/seiya/index.html

AUTUMN 2003: LOTS OF GADJETS
2 dvd of  Hades Sanctuary" with special features, made by Japanese fans.
New action figures about 6 Specters (Death Mask, Sion ...) and re-edition of the old action figures (5 Bronze, 12 Gold) made by Bandai HK.
Big action figures (for now there is only Pegasus), 5 Moving Soldiers (Bronze Saints), Candy Toys part 2 (18 pieces, with Marine Generals and Spectres) and the last set of gashapon, all made by Bandai.
Tw sets of Diorama Figures Blue Forever (5 Bronze Saints + Athena) made by Banpresto.
7 rami cards and Andromeda's pendant "Yours Ever" made by Toei.

SUMMER 2003: LOTS OF GADJETS
The sets of gashapons are going on. Further, Bandai has produced two sets of pins about superdeformed Bronze Saints and Gold Saints.
There is a game for the console Wonderswan, which is a better version of the old Gold Legend for Nintendo.
There are musical cds box (Eternal Edition), with all the old tracks and some news.
To finish, the art book of Hades Sanctuary was released.

MARCH 2003: CARDS
Amada has produced another series of 212 cards, about all the characters of the old series and some previews about Hades.

WINTER 2003: LOTS OF GADJETS
In January, in Japan, the first dvd of Hades was released (it's different from the Hong Kong's one). Further, there are new series of gashapon (6 pieces, about Gold Saints), bottle cap figures (19 pieces, as prize in candies), half figures (10 pieces, about Bronze Saints), mouse pads (8 pieces) and various stickers.

DECEMBER 2002: LOTS OF GADJETS
In Japan there is the first box of dvds about the old series (Pegasus Box), with a model included; there will be 4 box every 3 months. There is also a new pc game, with many images, to learn typing. Further, it was procuced a box of 3 music cd, with the old songs. To finish, there are 23 big stickers.

DECEMBER 2002: DVD HADES
On 1st December, in Hong Kong, the first dvd of Hades Sanctuary was released, with two episodes and some specials. There is a normal version and a special one with olographic cover. The next dvds will be available every month.

NOVEMBER 2002: HADES
Great new that everybody has been waiting from years!
On 9-11-2002 the satellitar channel SKY PerfecTV! will broadcast the Hades OAV.
Then, there will be the related DVDs.
It isn't a rumour: this information is in an official magazine and in the Toei home page:
http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/ova/seiya/index.html
Further, the calendar of 2003 and a game for Windows will be released.
For further information, go to my special section.

OCTOBER 2002: MANGA
Masami Kurumada is writing some volumes with the stories of Saint Seiya G (Gigatomachia).

JUNE 2002: CARDS
Now there is the new set of cards by Amada: 212 cards about the last two movies.

MAY 2002: GASHAPON
They are 5 little plastic models of Bronze Saints, like the surprises in the Easter eggs.

APRIL 2002: CARDS
Now there is a new set of cards by Amada: 212 cards about the first and the second movie.

WINTER 2001-2002: MANGA
The Japaneses are publishing monthly 5 magazines about Bronze Saints with the best scenes of manga.

AUTUMN 2001: DVD
In Hong Kong, there are 15 DVDs about Sanctuary, Asgard, Poseidon e dei 4 film. The language is Japanese, the optional subtitles are in Chinese or English. The DVDs work in every player (they are for all regions).

SEPTEMBER 2001: CALENDAR
The calendar of  2002 is big as a poster. The cover is holographic and has a new image; the pages of months are 6 and have big images. Futher, there is also the related shitajiki.

AUGUST 2001: BOOK
It is Saint Seiya Encyclopedia: there are some coloured images from manga, all the updated informations about characters...