SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac

It is said that every several hundred years,

the goddess Athena is reincarnated.

And now a new Athena has been born into this world,

but, this time, under a dark prophecy

that she will lead mankind to ruin.

The warriors who protected the goddess Athena

were known as Knights.

Today, a new generation of Knights

control the fate of the world.

They are called the Knights of the Zodiac.

It's happening again,

but, this time, it looks different.

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-Seiya, run! -Hmm?

Target acquired!

Let go of me!

You're coming with us!

Let her go!

Seiya!

Leave no witnesses.

-It's a Gold Knight! -Light him up!

We need reinforcements, guns, missiles, everything!

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Ah! Patricia!

Prepare, for we are at war.

Patricia, no!

Patricia!

Hey! What are you gonna do with my sister?

Give her back!

Patricia!

Huh?

You wanna sleep on our turf,

you gotta pay the rent, old man.

Hey! Leave him alone!

Huh? What are you gonna do about it, little punk?

We were just having fun!

Me and my big mouth.

Seiya, bro, thought that was you!

-What's up? -

You ain't no kid no more, Seiya.

When you gonna start running with the gang?

Gang? You guys aren't a gang.

You're just dorks running around picking on homeless folks.

- - Come on.

Don't look at me like that. You know I'm right.

Uh...

Talking crap about the gang?

You got guts, Seiya. Big balls, small brain.

Kick his ass, boys!

-Hey. -Huh?

See you later, bunch of losers!

Come on! I was only joking!

I'm a funny person!

Yeah, you are, idiot.

You're gonna get more hits than this video!

Ah. Seiya ain't got no money.

Hey, what's this?

What's this supposed to be?

Give me that back!

You carry a kid's drawing around in your wallet?

Ah, this must be somebody special.

Give it back.

Hey, what's going on?

Is he doing all of this?

I said give it back!

What the...

Oh, my God! The car is--

-Oh, no! -Ahh!

This is crazy!

-Help! -Run!

Seiya's some kind of freak!

What the hell was that?

Maybe I'm crazy, or maybe I have a head injury.

Maybe both.

Run! Seiya's some kind of freak!

Did you see that video of Seiya?

How could I miss it? It's posted all over the place.

Man, that was the scariest thing I've ever seen.

What's scary is that we live in the same building.

-I know, right? -

His name is Seiya.

He lives in the orphanage downtown.

Don't approach him.

He's unpredictable.

He could have killed us.

If I had killed them, then they wouldn't have

uploaded that stupid video, and I could live in peace.

Who am I kidding?

That's not me.

Seiya, run!

What the--

Hey! What are you...

Huh?

Who the heck are you?

- Welcome. -Eh?

Who are you? What do you want with me?

I just want to ask you some questions, young man.

Forget you! I'm outta here!

I would be outta here if I had any idea how.

What, you guys don't believe in exit signs?

My name is Alman Kido, and this is my granddaughter Sienna.

I so don't care!

Come on. If you're gonna kidnap me,

least you can do is tell me why.

Is this you?

Huh?

You don't know how you did that, do you?

There's nothing wrong with that.

Allow me to explain.

You see, throughout history, there have been warriors,

men and women with powers unlike anything else you've ever seen,

warriors called Knights.

Most people think people with powers

are just urban legends, hoaxes.

but you know as well as I do,

they're real.

That's the guy who took my sister!

If you want to understand

how you and your sister got caught up in this,

we need to start at the beginning.

The soldiers who attacked you and your sister,

they work for my former business partner,

a man by the name of Vander Guraad.

Vander and I had become successful

in information systems, scraping and gathering data,

selling and trading information.

We were experts in knowing all the facts.

But it turned out we knew nothing.

Fifteen years ago, Vander Guraad and I

were on an island in the Aegean Sea,

and nothing would ever be the same again.

The Gold Knight Aiolos was mortally wounded.

He couldn't speak,

but before he died, he shared a vision.

Every few hundred years,

there is a war between the gods.

Hades, God of the Underworld, and Poseidon, God of the Ocean,

plan to kill Athena, hoping to own this Earth.

Whenever Athena is in danger,

the Knights come into existence.

Before he died, the Gold Knight Aiolos

entrusted me with his Gold Armor

and a baby child.

I swore that I would keep them safe

and hidden from everyone, including Sanctuary.

I thought you said your buddy tried to kidnap my sister.

What's Sanctuary?

Sanctuary is the ancient organization

that governs all Knights.

As for Guraad, he and I collected information

and technology about the Knights,

but the more we learned, the more Vander started to think

that he could fight the gods himself.

To Vander, it was the only thing that makes sense.

Rather than letting the gods have power,

he would take the power for himself.

With what he's learned, Guraad is using technology

to build his own army of Knights.

Dark forces are rising.

Sanctuary and Guraad are preparing for war.

Um, that sounds serious. What's it got to do with me?

I believe Athena will save the world.

That's why I need new Knights to rise up

to protect Athena and to stop the war,

Knights like you.

Me? Are you crazy?

I'm no superpowered Knight.