Saint Seiya: Knight Of The Zodiac Season 3 Release Date, Cast, Storyline, Plot, And More!

Here is some information about Saint Seiya: Knight Of The Zodiac Season 3.

Saint Seiya, also known as Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac or simply Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It is an anime that ages way back to the 80s when the medium of anime was barely known in the West or even in most other parts of the world for that matter.

On July 19, 2019, Netflix premiered its own version of the anime, and its first season ended on January 23, 2020, with a total of 12 episodes. Following this, ‘Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac season 2 was released on Netflix on January 23, 2020, in an ONA format, with a total of 6 episodes.

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Saint Seiya: Knight Of The Zodiac Season 3 Storyline

The story follows five mystical warriors called the Saints who fight wearing sacred sets of armor named “Cloths”, the designs of which derive from the various constellations the characters have adopted as their destined guardian symbols and are empowered by mystical energy called “Cosmo”. The Saints have sworn to defend the reincarnation of the Greek goddess Athena in her battle against other Olympian gods who want to dominate Earth.

Furthermore, it shows the journey of Seiya in finding her missing sister along with the fight for becoming Goddess Athena warriors.

Saint Seiya: Knight Of The Zodiac Season 3 Cast

Bryson Baugus as Seiya
Marty Fleck as Narrator
Ty Mahany as Mylock
Emily Neves as Sienna
Luci Christian as Shaun
Patrick Poole as. Magnus
Blake Shepard as Long
James Belcher as Vander
Adam Gibbs as Nero
Maggie Flecknoe as Marin
John Swasey as Dohko

There is a possibility of new characters being introduced in season 3 of Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac.

Saint Seiya: Knight Of The Zodiac Season 3 Plot

The story follows the life of an orphan named Seiya who was forced to go to the Sanctuary in Greece to obtain one of the “Cloths”, the Bronze Cloth of the Pegasus constellation, a protective armor worn by the Greek goddess Athena’s 88 warriors known as “Saints”. Upon awakening his Cosmo, the power of the Saints which is an inner spiritual essence that originated in the Big Bang, Seiya quickly becomes the Pegasus Saint and returns to Japan to find his older sister.

Saint Seiya: Knight Of The Zodiac Season 3 Previous Season Recap

The granddaughter of Mitsumasa Kido makes a deal with him to go to fight in a tournament called the Galaxian Wars. In this tournament, all the orphans who survived and became Bronze Saints must fight to win the most powerful Cloth: The Sagittarius Gold Cloth. If Seiya goes to compete there and wins, Saori would start a search to find Seiya’s sister.

The tournament is interrupted by the revengeful Phoenix Bronze Saint, Ikki, who wishes to eliminate track from the people who forced him to undergo his training. He steals parts from the Sagittarius Cloth and eventually fights against the remaining Bronze Saints. Upon Ikki’s defeat, the Bronze Saints are attacked by the Silver Saints sent by the Sanctuary’s Pope to eliminate them. When they remain victorious, the Bronze Saints learn that Saori is Athena’s reincarnation and that the Pope once tried to kill her as a baby.

In the second story arc, the Greek god Poseidon reincarnates within the body of Julian Solo, the heir to a rich and powerful family, who follows his will of flooding the Earth. Saori goes to his Temple, where Julian offers her to reduce the flooding by absorbing the water inside the Ocean’s Central Pillar. Following Saori, Seiya, Hyōga, Shun, and Shiryū go to Poseidon’s underwater Temple and are confronted by his underlings, the Marines.

The third and last arc follows how Hades, the Underworld god, is freed from his seal and revives the deceased Gold Saints and Pope Aries Shion, and alongside some of his 108 Specters, sends them to the Sanctuary to kill Athena. The remaining Gold Saints serving Athena are able to subdue the enemies, but Saori then commits suicide. In the final fight against Hades and his two followers, Hypnos and Thanatos, the Saints gain the strongest God Cloths and use them to aid Saori in defeating Hades. However, Seiya also sacrifices himself by receiving one of Hades’ attacks, and the Saints return to Earth with his body.