

The DVD compilation was released in the same year. The first episodes were released from December 17, 2005, to February 18, 2006. The first was directed by Tomoharu Katsumata and scripted by Yosuke Kuroda. The second chapter was divided into two parts.

It was broadcast on Animax, a Japanese pay-per-view channel, from November 9, 2002, to April 12, 2003, and later released on DVD in 2003. The first chapter was directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi and scripted by Michiko Yokote. The project was divided into three chapters – "Sanctuary", "Inferno" and "Elysion" – spanning a total of 31 episodes. It was not until 2002 that the "Hades arc", the finale to Kurumada's manga, was adapted into an original video animation (OVA) series. The third arc, the "Poseidon arc" (episodes 100–114), concluded the anime, leaving the final part of the manga without an animated adaptation. The Asgard storyline did not exist in the manga and was created especially for the anime. The first is the "Sanctuary arc" (divided into four sub arcs), which starts on episode 1 and ends on episode 73, followed by the "Asgard arc" (episodes 74–99). The anime is divided into arcs, similarly to Kurumada's original manga. The chief scriptwriters were Takao Koyama (1–73) and Yoshiyuki Suga (74–114). The character designers were Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno. It was directed first by Kōzō Morishita (episodes 1–73) and then by Kazuhito Kikuchi (74–114). It first premiered on Japan's TV Asahi on October 11, 1986, and continued on until April 1, 1989. The Saint Seiya anime (also known as Knights of the Zodiac), based on the manga series of the same name by Masami Kurumada, was produced by Toei Animation.

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