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I've just finished watching the first episode subbed. I thought it was pretty good, although it suffered from some obvious flaws. The first problem, which is noticeable even without subs, is that they just didn't bother doing any kind of transition from the last story to this one. No times of peace or anything, we jump directly from the last battle to the new one.
Right in the beginning though, we get an interesting scene where Seiya has a chance to kill Pallas and bring an end to the upcoming battle foreseen by Athena, but sees himself unable to do it. It's kind of strange to see Athena using her Saints to kill a child, but, considering how she seemed to appear from the sky, right in front of Seiya, I guess no one knew the form she'd take.
Anyway, afterwards we get to Kouga. The change in writing team clearly shows here. The final battle was resolved by Kouga accepting all of himself, but here we get a Kouga who's still uncertain about his dark side, showing some regression. However, I think they touch on something here that the previous writers failed to do. Yes, Kouga accepted all of himself in the finale, but it never really elaborated on what that meant. Here, we actually get some real development in that sense. Kouga has realized that he wasn't only fighting to protect people, his fists tremble with excitation when he's about to fight, he likes fighting. That seems to be his "dark" side, and it's because of realizing that, in addition to his cloth being broken, that he initially hesitates to fight.
Meanwhile, Subaru seems to be introduced here to complete the representation of all elements in the main cast. Although it's not completely confirmed, Kouga says that Subaru's cosmo is similar to dark cosmo, and he shows the same red eyes that Kouga had at times. Although I'm not sure about him being a steel saint, I think this is actually a good move. Yet again, previously, the writers had pushed towards accepting dark cosmos and everything, but didn't really seem to attempt to do it themselves, only keeping people fighting with dark cosmos as villains - even when Kouga seemingly accepted dark cosmos he just got a golden aura due to the combination of cosmos he was using. Subaru seems like he's going to be an actual heroic dark cosmos Saint. Getting back to Kouga, the final push that makes him fight without hesitation is when the Pallasite starts talking about how he enjoys destruction and beating up others, and that's why he wasn't only focused on fighting against Kouga, in spite of that being his mission. At that point, Kouga realized how different they were. I thought that was actually pretty good.
Anyway, in spite of the lack of transition, the previous incidents aren't completely ignored. Kouga now seems to be known as a god slayer, by both Subaru and the Pallasite who attacked them here. Meanwhile, the Kiki scene is mainly around to show that Paradoxi has disappeared with the Gemini cloth, and also to change the mechanics regarding cloth's repairing. Kiki here claims that he can only repair the exterior of the clothes, but that any Saint, by burning their cosmos and using the universe inside them, can breath life into their clothes, so even if he dies the clothes won't disappear - I guess that might sound like a death flag, but he easily beats his opponent here at least.
The animation wasn't impressive, far bellow Omega's best, but it wasn't really bad either. It was basically serviceable. Anyway, next episode, Souma apparently still is wearing his old cloth, so it seems like we'll see the other 5 main get their new clothes individually, so, there shouldn't be many odd transitions from now on, I hope. Also, did anyone else think next episode's pallasite looked really like Jabu? Same eye and hair colors as Jabu in his Omega appearance, similar hair style... although his skin seems to be lighter, so it might be someone else.
Right in the beginning though, we get an interesting scene where Seiya has a chance to kill Pallas and bring an end to the upcoming battle foreseen by Athena, but sees himself unable to do it. It's kind of strange to see Athena using her Saints to kill a child, but, considering how she seemed to appear from the sky, right in front of Seiya, I guess no one knew the form she'd take.
Anyway, afterwards we get to Kouga. The change in writing team clearly shows here. The final battle was resolved by Kouga accepting all of himself, but here we get a Kouga who's still uncertain about his dark side, showing some regression. However, I think they touch on something here that the previous writers failed to do. Yes, Kouga accepted all of himself in the finale, but it never really elaborated on what that meant. Here, we actually get some real development in that sense. Kouga has realized that he wasn't only fighting to protect people, his fists tremble with excitation when he's about to fight, he likes fighting. That seems to be his "dark" side, and it's because of realizing that, in addition to his cloth being broken, that he initially hesitates to fight.
Meanwhile, Subaru seems to be introduced here to complete the representation of all elements in the main cast. Although it's not completely confirmed, Kouga says that Subaru's cosmo is similar to dark cosmo, and he shows the same red eyes that Kouga had at times. Although I'm not sure about him being a steel saint, I think this is actually a good move. Yet again, previously, the writers had pushed towards accepting dark cosmos and everything, but didn't really seem to attempt to do it themselves, only keeping people fighting with dark cosmos as villains - even when Kouga seemingly accepted dark cosmos he just got a golden aura due to the combination of cosmos he was using. Subaru seems like he's going to be an actual heroic dark cosmos Saint. Getting back to Kouga, the final push that makes him fight without hesitation is when the Pallasite starts talking about how he enjoys destruction and beating up others, and that's why he wasn't only focused on fighting against Kouga, in spite of that being his mission. At that point, Kouga realized how different they were. I thought that was actually pretty good.
Anyway, in spite of the lack of transition, the previous incidents aren't completely ignored. Kouga now seems to be known as a god slayer, by both Subaru and the Pallasite who attacked them here. Meanwhile, the Kiki scene is mainly around to show that Paradoxi has disappeared with the Gemini cloth, and also to change the mechanics regarding cloth's repairing. Kiki here claims that he can only repair the exterior of the clothes, but that any Saint, by burning their cosmos and using the universe inside them, can breath life into their clothes, so even if he dies the clothes won't disappear - I guess that might sound like a death flag, but he easily beats his opponent here at least.
The animation wasn't impressive, far bellow Omega's best, but it wasn't really bad either. It was basically serviceable. Anyway, next episode, Souma apparently still is wearing his old cloth, so it seems like we'll see the other 5 main get their new clothes individually, so, there shouldn't be many odd transitions from now on, I hope. Also, did anyone else think next episode's pallasite looked really like Jabu? Same eye and hair colors as Jabu in his Omega appearance, similar hair style... although his skin seems to be lighter, so it might be someone else.
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