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Saint Seiya CG Film's New Video Pits Brother vs. Brother

posted on by Egan Loo
Tiger & Bunny's Satou directs Legend of Sanctuary film opening on June 21

Toei Animation began streaming the third special video for this month's CG film Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary on Tuesday. The "Brothers" video centers around the conflict between the siblings Shun and Ikki.

Ikki: It's you who's finished.
Shun: Brother…!
Shun: I'm weak…
Ikki: You're spineless.
Ikki: If you were not my brother, I could have killed you.
Ikki: Try to beat me.
Shun: I'm not running away anymore.
Shun: I've made up my mind!

The film's official website also notes that the original soundtrack will go on sale on June 18, and each copy will include one of 17 randomly distributed main character trading cards.

The film will adapt the popular Sanctuary arc from Masami Kurumada's original Saint Seiya mythological fantasy manga of "Bronze Saints vs. Gold Saints." The film's website has the following quote from Kurumada: "The Seiya legend began here." YOSHIKI, the 48-year-old leader of the rock band X Japan, is contributing the theme song "Hero (YOSHIKI Classical Version)":

The voice cast includes:

Toei Animation confirmed in February 2011 that production on a new computer-animated film of Saint Seiya had been green-lit. Keiichi Satou (Tiger & Bunny, Ashura), is helming the project, and Kurumada is credited as the original creator and chief production supervisor. (He also coined the film's title.) Tomohiro Suzuki, a scriptwriter for six episodes of Tiger & Bunny, is writing the screenplay.

The manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1985 to 1990, and it has 34.4 million copies in print worldwide. The manga quickly inspired a 1986 television anime series that was popular not only in Japan, but also in France, Italy, other parts of Europe, Brazil, other parts of South and Central America, and Asia. The anime aired in more than 80 countries. It has been a decade since the last Saint Seiya film, 2004's Saint Seiya Tenkai-hen Jōsō ~Overture~.

The film will open in Japan on June 21. It will also play in Mexico and Peru this year.


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