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|1||A New Era of Heroic Legends||August 30th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac12 <span style="color:green;"><span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span></span>] | |1||A New Era of Heroic Legends||August 30th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac12 <span style="color:green;"><span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span></span>] | ||
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|2||Burn! Meteor Punch of Pegasus!||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac13 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |2||Burn! Meteor Punch of Pegasus!||September 6th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac13 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|3||Swan, Warrior of the Ice Field||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac14 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |3||Swan, Warrior of the Ice Field||September 13th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac14 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|4||Dragon's Invincible Fist and Shield||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac15 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |4||Dragon's Invincible Fist and Shield||September 20th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac15 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|5||Miraculous Rebirth and Cosmic Friendship||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac22 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |5||Miraculous Rebirth and Cosmic Friendship||September 27th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac22 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|6||The Return of Phoenix||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac23 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |6||The Return of Phoenix||October 4th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac23 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|7||Theft of the Gold Cloth||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac24 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |7||Theft of the Gold Cloth||October 11th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac24 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|8||Battle for the Gold Cloth||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac25 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |8||Battle for the Gold Cloth||October 18th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac25 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|9||The Black Knights Appear||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac32 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |9||The Black Knights Appear||October 25th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac32 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|10||Dragon in the Graveyard of Knights||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac33 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |10||Dragon in the Graveyard of Knights||November 1st, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac33 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|11||Seiya Battles Black Pegasus||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac34 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |11||Seiya Battles Black Pegasus||November 8th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac34 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|12||The Nebula Chain of Friendship||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac35 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |12||The Nebula Chain of Friendship||November 15th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac35 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|13||Duel of the Dragons||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac42 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |13||Duel of the Dragons||November 22nd, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac42 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|14||Defeat of the Phantom Demon||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac43 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |14||Defeat of the Phantom Demon||November 29th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac43 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|15||Phoenix's Secret Revealed||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac44 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |15||Phoenix's Secret Revealed||December 6th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac44 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|16||Docrates' Fierce Attack||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac45 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |16||Docrates' Fierce Attack||December 13th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac45 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|17||Save Sienna!||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac52 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |17||Save Sienna!||December 20th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac52 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|18||Ghost Knights on the Rampage||2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac53 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | |18||Ghost Knights on the Rampage||December 27th, 2003||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac53 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|19||Battle on the Island of Spirits|| | |19||Battle on the Island of Spirits||January 3rd, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac54 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|20||Shina's Revenge|| | |20||Shina's Revenge||January 10th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac55 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|21||Fight on the Ice Field|| | |21||Fight on the Ice Field||January 17th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac62 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|22||Phoenix the Firebird|| | |22||Phoenix the Firebird||January 24th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac63 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|23||Attack of the Silver Knight|| | |23||Attack of the Silver Knight||January 31st, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac64 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|24||Fly, Pegasus, Fly|| | |24||Fly, Pegasus, Fly||February 7th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knightsofthezodiac65 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|25||Fight On! The Rise of Athena|| | |25||Fight On! The Rise of Athena||February 14th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knights-of-the-zodiac-7-2 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|26||Friends or Foes – The Knights of Steel|| | |26||Friends or Foes – The Knights of Steel||February 21st, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knights-of-the-zodiac-7-3 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|27||Medusa's Shield|| | |27||Medusa's Shield||February 28th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knights-of-the-zodiac-7-4 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|28||Dragon's Sacrifice|| | |28||Dragon's Sacrifice||March 6th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knights-of-the-zodiac-7-5 <span style="color:green;">'''On DVD'''</span>] | ||
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|29||''Unknown''|| | |29||''Unknown''||March 13th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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|30||''Unknown''|| | |30||''Unknown''||March 20th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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|31||Evil Apparitions|| | |31||Evil Apparitions||March 27th, 2004||[https://archive.org/details/knights-of-the-zodiac <span style="color:green;">'''Found (Poor Quality)'''</span>] | ||
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|32||''Unknown''|| | |32||''Unknown''||April 6th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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|33||Sightless Dragon's Tears||June 5th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | |33||Sightless Dragon's Tears||June 5th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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|40||Away We Go!||July 24th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | |40||Away We Go!||July 24th, 2004||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
===Video=== | ===Video=== |
Revision as of 02:33, 17 May 2022
Knights of the Zodiac is the international title for the Saint Seiya media franchise created by Masami Kurumada. Debuting in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in 1986, the series later sprawled out to include multiple spinoffs, sequels, and anime adaptations. The first of which was produced by Toei Animation for 114 episodes on the TV Asahi network between 1986 and 1989.
After achieving great success internationally in French, Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets, the original anime series was brought to English audiences in the early 2000s. One of those attempts included an edited dub produced by DIC Entertainment, which received only a partial home video release. Over the years, this dub has become infamous for its poor visual editing, primarily with the blood being recolored into something else other than red, questionable dialogue changes, with removing almost any mention of death in the series and replacing it with terms related to sleep being a notable example, and Stuart Stone's role as Cygnus Hyoga (Swan Hyoga in the DIC dub) being too out of character and sounding too similar to that of a stereotypical surfer boy.[1]
History
In July 2002, anime distributor ADV Films announced at their Otakon 2002 panel that they had purchased the rights to release the series in North America.[2] The following June, it was revealed that the company had only acquired a sublicense to Saint Seiya through an agreement with children's entertainment company DIC Entertainment - similar to their earlier partnership on another anime series, Sailor Moon. The French studio announced that it had sold 40 episodes of the show to Cartoon Network for broadcast in the United States under the name Knights of the Zodiac.[3]
The company produced an edited English dub recorded in Toronto, Ontario, by Kaleidoscope Entertainment. This version featured significant visual edits, storyline modifications and a cover of the A Flock of Seagulls song "I Ran (So Far Away)" by American rock band Bowling for Soup as its opening theme song. The series debuted on Cartoon Network in the United States on August 30, 2003.[4] Canadian broadcaster YTV aired a preview episode on September 1st before airing the show in its regular rotation on September 5th, 2003.[5][6][Notes 1] Parallel to DIC's dub, ADV Films produced their own uncut version under the Saint Seiya name.[7] Utilizing an entirely separate voice cast from the Houston, Texas area, their dub was primarily released on home video and ran for 60 episodes.
Though Cartoon Network initially planned to run the rest of DIC's dub in a late-night slot,[8] the show was pulled from the channel's schedule in April 2004 after 32 episodes aired.[9][10]
In Canada, however, all 40 episodes aired on television, with the dub's conclusion airing on July 24th, 2004.[11] The channel ran episodes 33-36 twice, with 37-40 only airing once, as YTV permanently removed Knights of the Zodiac from its lineup on October 9th, 2004.[12] The existence of the dub is supported by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), who approved 40 Knights of the Zodiac episodes as Canadian content on December 1st, 2003.[13] That indicates production on the entire batch was finished months beforehand.
Nearly 20 years after the DIC dub aired, the original anime, as well as an entirely new dub, produced by Sentai Filmworks, was released on Netflix between 2019[14] and 2020[15][16], making it the first one to dub the whole series in English. Both the series and the third dub are no longer available on the platform as of December 2021.[17]
Availability
Of the 40 episodes that exist of this dub, only 28 have ever been released on DVD.[18] However, five more volumes were planned, but were cancelled for unknown reasons, which resulted in the remaining 12 episodes to become lost.[19] With the DIC dub having been long out of circulation, it is very hard to come by, especially when compared to the ADV and Sentai Filmworks dubs, which are available online via torrents.
As of 2022, the 28 episodes released on DVD have been made available on the Internet Archive by Lost Media Wiki user Vexer6. The once missing episode 31 was also uploaded by the same user on April 4th, albeit in poor quality. For now, 11 episodes of the dub currently remain lost.
Episodes
# | Episode Title[Notes 2] | First Air Date | Status |
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1 | A New Era of Heroic Legends | August 30th, 2003 | On DVD |
2 | Burn! Meteor Punch of Pegasus! | September 6th, 2003 | On DVD |
3 | Swan, Warrior of the Ice Field | September 13th, 2003 | On DVD |
4 | Dragon's Invincible Fist and Shield | September 20th, 2003 | On DVD |
5 | Miraculous Rebirth and Cosmic Friendship | September 27th, 2003 | On DVD |
6 | The Return of Phoenix | October 4th, 2003 | On DVD |
7 | Theft of the Gold Cloth | October 11th, 2003 | On DVD |
8 | Battle for the Gold Cloth | October 18th, 2003 | On DVD |
9 | The Black Knights Appear | October 25th, 2003 | On DVD |
10 | Dragon in the Graveyard of Knights | November 1st, 2003 | On DVD |
11 | Seiya Battles Black Pegasus | November 8th, 2003 | On DVD |
12 | The Nebula Chain of Friendship | November 15th, 2003 | On DVD |
13 | Duel of the Dragons | November 22nd, 2003 | On DVD |
14 | Defeat of the Phantom Demon | November 29th, 2003 | On DVD |
15 | Phoenix's Secret Revealed | December 6th, 2003 | On DVD |
16 | Docrates' Fierce Attack | December 13th, 2003 | On DVD |
17 | Save Sienna! | December 20th, 2003 | On DVD |
18 | Ghost Knights on the Rampage | December 27th, 2003 | On DVD |
19 | Battle on the Island of Spirits | January 3rd, 2004 | On DVD |
20 | Shina's Revenge | January 10th, 2004 | On DVD |
21 | Fight on the Ice Field | January 17th, 2004 | On DVD |
22 | Phoenix the Firebird | January 24th, 2004 | On DVD |
23 | Attack of the Silver Knight | January 31st, 2004 | On DVD |
24 | Fly, Pegasus, Fly | February 7th, 2004 | On DVD |
25 | Fight On! The Rise of Athena | February 14th, 2004 | On DVD |
26 | Friends or Foes – The Knights of Steel | February 21st, 2004 | On DVD |
27 | Medusa's Shield | February 28th, 2004 | On DVD |
28 | Dragon's Sacrifice | March 6th, 2004 | On DVD |
29 | Unknown | March 13th, 2004 | Lost |
30 | Unknown | March 20th, 2004 | Lost |
31 | Evil Apparitions | March 27th, 2004 | Found (Poor Quality) |
32 | Unknown | April 6th, 2004 | Lost |
33 | Sightless Dragon's Tears | June 5th, 2004 | Lost |
34 | Farewell, Comrade | June 12th, 2004 | Lost |
35 | Seiya's Journey of Hope | June 19th, 2004 | Lost |
36 | Twelve Gold Cloths | June 26th, 2004 | Lost |
37 | Decision of the Mask | July 3rd, 2004 | Lost |
38 | Battle of the Gold Knights | July 10th, 2004 | Lost |
39 | Dragon Defends His Master | July 17th, 2004 | Lost |
40 | Away We Go! | July 24th, 2004 | Lost |
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Notes
- ↑ This dub also allegedly ran on Cartoon Network in Australia, though information regarding the broadcast is difficult to come by. Local home video distributor MRA Entertainment released seven DVDs containing the first 23 episodes between June 2005 and February 2006.
- ↑ Episode title and broadcast dates via the CRTC logs for YTV in June and July 2004.
References
- ↑ Land of Obscusion's review of the DIC dub. Retrieved 10 May '22
- ↑ Anime News Network article on the announcements ADV Films made at their Otakon panel. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Business Wire article detailing how DIC Entertainment was granted with airing the English dub of Knights of the Zodiac in the US, Bandi America is granted the toy license, and ADV is granted the home video rights. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Anime News Network article on Knights of the Zodiac on Cartoon Network. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Anime News Network article on YTV airing dates of Inu Yasha, St. Seiya, and Knights of the Zodiac. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ YTV broadcast log for September 2003, includes Knights of the Zodiac. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Anime News Network article on ADV releasing two varieties of St. Seiya. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Anime News Network article for a Saturday schedule in 2004 including Knights of the Zodiac. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Toonzone forum thread about a Saturday 2004 Toonami schedule that could have happened. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Toomzone forum thread about Knights of the Zodiac. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ YTV broadcast log for July 2004, which includes the finale of Knights of the Zodiac. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Another YTV broadcast log for July 2004. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ A list of CRTC Canadian program recognition numbers, including Knights of the Zodiac. Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Anime News Network: Netflix Adds 1st 41 Episodes of 1986 Saint Seiya Anime With New English Dub, Subtitles (Updated) Retrieved 10 May '22
- ↑ Anime News Network: Netflix Adds 32 More Episodes of 1986 Saint Seiya Anime With New English Dub, Subtitles Retrieved 10 May '22
- ↑ Anime News Network: Netflix Adds Final 41 Episodes of 1986 Saint Seiya Anime With New English Dub, Subtitles Retrieved 10 May '22
- ↑ Anime News Network: 1986 Saint Seiya Anime Leaves Netflix in December Retrieved 10 May '22
- ↑ Anime News Network Encyclopedia page on Knights of the Zodiac - Battle of the Bronze Knights (Dub. DVD 1). Retrieved 04 Jun '18.
- ↑ Anime News Network Encyclopedia page on Knights of the Zodiac - Brink of the Abyss (Dub. DVD 8). Retrieved 04 Jun '18.