Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa

聖闘士星矢 THE LOST CANVAS 冥王神話

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This manga tells the story of the previous Holy war of the universe of Saint Seiya, taking place in the XVIII century, 250 years before the original manga. The story centers on the relation between Tenma, the Pegasus Saint and his beloved friend, Alone, who would eventually become his greatest enemy, Hades. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa was published in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora JBC from August 2007 to February 2012.

Published

Sep 21, 2006 to Apr 7, 2011

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Alone254 fan favorites
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Birthday: December 24 Zodiac sign: Capricorn Gender: Male Age: 15 Height: 167 cm Weight: 54 Kg Alone is a young painter and also Hades' previous incarnation. He is an Italian orphan raised alongside Sasha and Tenma, who later become arch-enemies. He is the purest soul on earth and believes that everybody has a good side and disapproves the use of violence, which is why Hades chose to reincarnate in his body. At first he rejects his fate as the God of the Underworld, but is convinced later by Hypnos, and sealed by Pandora's kiss. Before Tenma leaves for the Sanctuary, they make a promise that, while Tenma tries to become a Saint of Athena, Alone too must try to become a good artist so that he can finish the painting of Tenma when they once again reunite.
Douko Libra109 fan favorites
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Douko is one of the two survivors of the last generation of Athena Saints along with Aries Shion who is a close friend of him. After the war, Douko received the order to watch the tower where Hades' Specters were sealed until the next Holy War. Douko lives at the Five Peaks in China alone with Shun-Rei, an orphan girl he took on his care. Douko is also the master of Dragon Shiryuu and Ouko, who is an anime-only character. Douko represents a father figure to Shiryuu as well, and Shiryuu often recalls on his wise teachings whenever facing difficulty in battle. He is often seen as an adviser of the main characters and a good friend of Aries Mu, Shion's disciple. When Douko was young, he was much more vivid and rather impulsive. After regaining his young form during the Hades arc, he retains the behavior of his youth, albeit much more circumspect and mindful, result of his almost three centuries of experience as a Saint.
Sasha91 fan favorites
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Birthday: March 8 Age: 13 Zodiac Sign: Pisces Sasha is the previous incarnation of Athena who always appears when evil consumes Earth; She spends her childhood with Alone and Tenma in a small village in Italy and is later "adopted" by the Sanctuary in Greece. Before leaving for the Sanctuary, she gives Alone and Tenma bracelets made from flowers as a charm that will hopefully reunite them one day. In the Sanctuary, she meets Tenma again as a Saint and later encounters her brother Alone as an enemy. Although being in different positions, Sasha wishes to live with Tenma and Alone again, remembering their promise.
Shion Aries79 fan favorites
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Shion is the original Grand Pope of Sanctuary, as well as one of the remaining survivors of the Holy War from the 1800s. He also served as the master of Aries Mu, who would eventually inherit the Gold Cloth of Aries from him. Shion is one of last survivors of the race that inhabited the lost continent Lemuria (also called Mu). Due to this, he has a life span much larger than that of a normal human, what allowed him to live more than two hundred years. He is a close friend of Libra Dohko, the only survivor of the last generation of saints together with Shion, and the master of Aries Mu. (Source: Wikipedia)
Tenma Pegasus73 fan favorites
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Birthday: December 5 Zodiac sign: Sagitarius Gender: Male Age: 15 years Height: 168cm Weight: 56kg Blood type: B
Yuzuriha Crane20 fan favorites
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Birthday: April 12 Gender: Female Age: 17 years Height: 171cm Weight: 54kg Blood type: AB Introduced in Lost Canvas, Crane Yuzuriha (鶴星座のユズリハ, Kurein no Yuzuriha) is the Crane (Grus) Silver Saint in The Lost Canvas. She is a student of Hakurei, the Lemurian master, and by implication trained with Aries Sion. She does not wear the Silver Cloth until reaching Sanctuary, and tends not to wear a mask like any other female saint. She first appears after the supposed death of Pegasus Tenma at the hands of Alone. She finds Tenma's dying body and Unicorn Yato who tried to attack her as he thought she was an enemy. However Yuzuriha reasoned with him and took him and Tenma to Jamir. When they arrived, she offered her blood, allowing her master Hakurei to repair the Unicorn Cloth. Shortly thereafter, she is sent to the Underworld with Yato to rescue the soul of Tenma, which was trapped by one of Hades' specters. (Source: Wikipedia)
Yato Unicorn8 fan favorites
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Unicorn Yato is the name of the Unicorn Saint living in the 18th Century. He was partner of Pegasus Tenma in the Sanctuary and he did not get on well with him. During the first mission in the manga he was defeated supposedly by Alone-Hades or one of his minions and he was thought to be dead by the other Saints. Yet, he somehow survived and stumbled upon a dying Tenma. During his attempt to carry him away, a Lemurian girl called Yuzuriha appeared before them. Yato attacked her, mistaking her as an enemy. But after a conversation, he finds out that she is on the same side. Yuzurihaa then took both of them to Jamir, in Tibet, via teleportation. There, the Lemurian Master Hakurei repaired Yato's Cloth with the blood of Yuzuriha. After its repair, his Cloth looked like the one Pegasus Seiya used in the Poseidon Saga. Yato claims that although he is not as strong or important as his partners, he considers fighting alongside them an honour. His only shown attack is the Unicorn Gallop (ユニコーンギャロップ ,Yunikōn Gyaroppu?) during which he performs a powerful kick. Yato seems to have a crush on Sasha as he always gets angry when Tenma mentions her, but the actual feelings he has have not yet been revealed in the story. He also sometimes risks his life to help Tenma; at the beginning of the series, just to prevent Sasha from being sad, but as the series progresses, he does it as Tenma's friend.
Owl Partita1 fan favorites
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Before the War Partita was a very nice woman with a radiant smile and seems to embrace everything in a very positive way. One day, she tells Pandora that she is pregnant and that she will name her child Tenma because, in Japanese, it means "Pegasus". Pandora is happy with this, and, later on, she discovered that her own mother is pregnant with her little brother (who is Hades' soul) which makes Pandora extremely happy and able to see everything in "glow". But after her brother was born, he mysteriously disappeared from the castle with Hypnos blaming it on an Athena's Saint. Pandora, enraged and furious with the loss of her little brother, orders both Partita and her son to be killed. In a flashback – when we find out Partita’s true motives – it seems that she died protecting her little boy but later succumbed to the cold. The child was taken by Mephistopheles Youma, who was later revealed to be Partita's husband. Uranus GuardianIn another twist of the series, it is discovered that Partita had been resurrected after Youma enters the scene and reveals the secret. She humbly embraces Pandora with calm words, before tearing her dress apart, leaving her to die, Youma then teleports his wife and his son to the Uranus Temple. Tenma finds himself shocked when he realizes he is no longer in the Saturn temple. However, he finds himself even more shocked as soon as he sees his mother clothed in a Surplice. The Pegasus Saint says that he won't fight his mother and she comes closer to him, holding him in her arms. Still, this wasn’t an act of mercy as she releases a power burst of her cosmo claiming that she was going to kill him. She then reveals her master plan: even at the cost of her own life, she would protect him so the soul of the "god slayer" would be save and that now she returned to regain it in order to use it to destroy the Olympus Gods so she and her husband (Youma) can bring a new era to the world. Tenma continues to remember his mother's good side, and refuses to fight her. Partita watches this with disdain while saying that she only wants Pegasus' soul as her own child. But before she could kill Tenma, another great burst of Cosmo stops her from doing it. She immediately recognizes the lighting-based attack as Pandora's. Claiming that Pandora will create her own reality, she attacks Partita saying that she, this time, will succeed in destroying both mother and son. Although she probably moves thanks to her determination, her Cosmo is not capable of suffice enough to actually cause Partita any damage. Actually it is the Owl Specter that decides to erase Pandora from her misery sending them to the Underworld with another powerful blast of pure Cosmo. But Tenma - sick of all the fights– says that he won't allow his mother to kill Pandora even if she is his enemy. With his strong will, his Pegasus Bronze Cloth turns into a Golden shine (similar to the Bronze Cloths of Seiya, Hyoga, Shiryu, and Shun in the Poseidon's arc of the original series). The Uranus Guardian quickly disdains the Golden shine of the Bronze Cloth, saying that is merely a coat. Tenma answers that the lives of all his friends are inside the Cloth, and so it's not just a coat. He then attacks Partita and, in a clash of the two forces, the Bronze Saint manages to partially destroy her surplice. It is during this confrontation that Pandora realizes something: there isn't one surplice or a cloth – that she knows of – that represents the Owl. Again during the battle, Tenma attempts to strike again at his mother, but she now, easily, stops his attack. Then an eye appears from her Surplice and sends some kind of radiation that completely destroys the Bronze Cloth. Immediately after that Partita claims that she'll take Pegasus' soul. She succeeds in said task, and it can be seen that Tenma’s soul is not common among mortals (As pointed out by Pandora, although the reasons why she said this are unknown). But, as always, the Pegasus Saint was too stubborn to give up and decided to try to force his soul back in his body. The leader of Hades' army advises not to do it, as it could cause irreparable damages. While holding on to his soul, a feather of the Pegasus' wing (Tenmas soul took the shape of a Pegasus) touched the broken parts of his armor leading to its resurrect ion in the marvelous form of a God Cloth Messenger Of Olympus Partita beholds Tenma's God Cloth and then the two engage in a battle with the Pegasus Saint's power raised to the very maximum. In a clash between the two, Partita’s Surplice gets partly crashed and as she falls from the sky, we seen that she was, actually, someone important in Athena's army. During a conversation she had with her Goddess, it was revealed that Athena planned – on an unspecific Holy War – to be reborn as a human; something that Owl really disliked. Fearing that Athena could not find Pegasus so he could help her winning the Holy War, Partita decided to be reborn as a human to help Pegasus and Athena find each other. She later says how her little boy seems to be willing to die fighting for the sake of her Goddess. 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