Saint Seiya: The Movie
1987 anime film directed by Kōzō Morishita
Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢(セイントセイヤ), Seinto Seiya), retitled Saint Seiya: Evil Goddess Eris (聖闘士星矢(セイントセイヤ) 邪神エリス, Seinto Seiya: Jashin Erisu) on its home video release, is the first in a series of anime films produced by Toei Animation based on the manga Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada. The movie premiered on July 18, 1987, at the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival, where it was shown as part of a quadruple feature along with Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle and the movie versions of Hikari Sentai Maskman and Choujinki Metalder.
Plot
The film is independent from the canon and chronology established by Kurumada in his manga. In the movie plot, Seiya already has awakened to the Seven Senses, thus the movie can be situated after the Twelve Temples arc in the chronology.
It starts off with Seiya, Hyōga, and Shun visiting the Miho's Star Children Academy, a school and orphanage owned by The biological father of Seiya and Seika and adoptive grandfather of Saori Kido, Mitsumasa Kido, and former home of Seiya and Seika, where Hyoga saves one of the children of Miho, one of the caretakers of the orphanage from being run over by a car, when the child attempted to retrieve his toy airplane into a busy street.
A new character called Erie Aizawa is revealed to be Miho's workmate and a second caretaker at the orphanage. She starts having feelings for Hyōga, and, one night, they are sitting outside watching the stars when they suddenly see a falling star. As Erie makes a wish, it is stolen by Eris, the Greek Goddess of Discord, who uses it to revive herself.
Things worsen when Eris takes possession of Erie's body and kidnaps the Greek Goddess of War and Wisdon Athena to Eris' own Sanctuary. Eris plans to gain control of the world by sucking all the energy out of Athena with the golden apple to seize her body, and revives dead Saints of the past to fight for her, dubbing them Ghost Saints, and also Ghost Five.
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