![]() Sakurai really tries hard to emulate that performance but it will never compare to how Suzuoki did it. Suzuoki just has this really distinct voice that always brought a unique charisma and authority to his character. His newer voice actor is Sakurai Takahiro, the voice of Cloud from Final Fantasy VII and Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass. The only voice change that I could ever find justified is of course that of Shiryu since Suzuoki Hirotaka has passed on. I think the character lacked any significant dialog or soloquies that really defined the character to really make you evaluate him 100%, but I think he does a good job with what he has to offer. He actually does a good job of capturing the original performance of Hashimoto Kouichi, though I think his voice is deeper. Hyouga's new voice actor is Miura Hiroaki. And I feel even though this series is shorter, I felt the newer voice actors for Shun, Hyoga and Athena were present enough to have me form my opinion on them. The new voice cast from the previous oav is also back. So for this nice twist along with another unpredictable twist I appreciated which you also have to see to find out. The flowers stick out and the lighting in contrast to this just really sticks out to me considering that the villains are the lords of darkness, so I found a very nice ironic twist to that along with what was mostly presented in the previous oavs. In this series, it takes place in a more Heavenly utopia like environment, so the place is filled with flowers and clear skies. And Athena's armor is also excellently animated and brightly colored, and the design accurately reflects the gimmick of the goddess she is inspired by.Īnother quality that I kept on pointing out is the lighting. Try to combine the rough features of Guts' berserk armor and Griffin's dignified and shininess with his current armor in the Berserk series, but of course black and with some bigger wings, and that's the best way I can describe Hades' get up. The design of Hades' armor is excellently detailed with the joints, compliments his figure and gives room for his wild hair, and looks appropriately mobile. The designs of the cloths are well detailed, very shiny, and still appropriately compliments the body frames of the characters and the execution of the action. The designs of the villains are very intimidating with their pale skin tone, dark clothes, and non pupil eyes. Well, the quality of the animation still retains from the last oav, the explosiveness of the action is still fresh with the new two new villains and their moves are really cool. Even though Thanatos is the weaker and more brash of the twin minions, he does some things that none other villain of Saint Seiya has done which you also have to see to find out. Thanatos and Hypnos, though their presences iare brief, they did have quite an impact as well by what they had to offer as villains. ![]() And I think throughout most of the franchise, her usage was also very faithful to the original mythology of Athena. I feel her brief moment really outshines all of that. And of course she needs that for combative purposes, and it's nice to see that she has this role for once and has a different kind of use in comparison to how she was mostly used throughout the duration of the franchise. This isn't really a spoiler considering that most of the time, the saints are trying to give her her cloth, meaning her armor. What I also like is how Athena is used in the end. And overall, most of the Hades oavs have a theme of what defines human nature in relation to sin, and judging people based on them whether man or God. Granted this can be done in just about anything, but I like how it includes the use of Gods of all beings in conveying this, and that even Gods are capable of making errors and falling to the same mistakes of human nature. The anime demonstrates excellent themes on what it means to be a God and what it truly means to be human thus emphasizing on the value of life. But I feel if you have some familiarity with some of the prior works to Kurumada Masami, specifically Ring ni Kakero, I thought the ending was And the ending is also pretty amazing and it's very rare that Shounen uses the ending that it uses, but it is kind of ambiguous, but yet respectfully satisfying. And during the final battle, there are some cool things that do happen that you have to see to for yourself like with what also happens in the previous oavs. Even though it's six episodes, the pacing is very even and all the characters are present and united.
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