This week the world got its first look at the film. live action hollywood from Knights of the Zodiac. However, every fan of the franchise knows that this is not the first time that the United States has tried to bring the story of Masami Kurumada to real action. But what if we told you that they also tried to reinvent Saint Seiya in animation to present it to the western public?
The youtuber Ray Mona, known for unveiling the mysteries behind lost audiovisual materials and who recently found the pilot of the live action american of sailor Moonpresented the first part of a fascinating documentary titled The secret stories of Saint Seiya (The Secret Stories of Saint Seiya).
His goal in undertaking this research was to find StarTormthe infamous American pilot in live action of Knights of the Zodiac. However, his investigation ended with an unexpected discovery in the archives of the United States Library of Congress: a pilot for an animated adaptation of Saint Seiya named Guardians of the Cosmos.
The first part of the documentary ends with the revelation of the opening of the project. It is expected that the rest of the details and perhaps the complete pilot will be revealed in the second part.
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For some context, Toei explored different options for bringing its successful intellectual properties to the US market in the early 1990s. Watching the documentary, it’s clear that the Japanese production company experimented with numerous ideas to introduce its franchises to Western audiences. Ray Mona even points out that, having gone ahead with some of those projects, our introduction to anime content could have been completely different in this part of the world.
It is worth mentioning that, until then, the anime that reached American television were still counted. In the case of Guardians of the Cosmoswe can intuit that the idea was to reimagine Saint Seiya with western-style animation, instead of casting the anime. And had they been given the green light, our first approach to this iconic work would have been with an adaptation rather than the original.
You can see below the first part of The secret stories of Saint Seiya:
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What do you think of the result?