With Seven Seas having picked up the rights to the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō manga last year and the first volume out earlier this month and getting a new key visual this week, a new piece of information has surfaced that’s fairly disheartening. Fans who had hoped that this would be a 2018 project will be disappointed to learn that the show is being scheduled for sometime in 2019 with a season still to be determined – though we hope that saying 2019 now means it’ll be a part of the winter 2019 season.
The series from Chimaki Kuori kicked off in the summer of 2013 in Champion Red magazine and has nine collected volumes in Japan so far.
Plot concept: In the wake of a space-wide civil war instigated by Saga–the Gemini Gold Saint–a new team of Saints comes together with the goal of protecting their goddess Athena. This first all-woman team of armored warriors, powered by the Zodiac, will use their cunning, strength, and compassion to defend their worlds and oppose their very destinies.
Brand new visual revealed for the new spinoff series Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō, featuring the first all-woman team of Zodiac warriors, set to premiere in 2019! pic.twitter.com/g1va3oMSA5
— Toei Animation (@ToeiAnimation) February 22, 2018
[Source: ANN]
