Salah seorang dari tiga Specter utama, Minos, memimpin sepasukan Specter untuk menyerang Sanctuary atas perintah Hades. Tapi, Saint Gold Pisces, Albafica menghadang mereka. Pertempuran pun tak dapat dihindari!
Bagaimanakah pertempuran Minos dan Albafica!?
Editor’s Note -cerita seru dan menarik -salah satu dari seri kisah Saint Seiya
Masami Kurumada ( 車田正美, Kurumada Masami, born December 6, 1953) is a Japanese and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and/or mahō shōnen. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and modern society's archetype of the true men. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and pursue to achieve courage and manhood perfection through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the best success award with Saint Seiya and the best inspiration award with Ring ni Kakero.
Los espectros de Hades atacan al Santuario y Albafica, pese a ser el último encontrarse con los enemigos (según el orden de las casas), es el primer Dorado que pelea hasta que su cosmos desaparece.
Albafica de Piscis se enfrenta a uno de los Tres Jueces del Infierno: Minos de Grifo. Y, al igual que una rosa venenosa, su belleza es equivalente a su letalidad, ya que su sangre inclusive puede llegar a matar a los enemigos de así quererlo.
Albafica demuestra tener coraje, valor y una convicción inquebrantable ante las adversidades. Son sus valores y su fuerza de voluntad lo que lo mantienen de pie, aun tras haber sido víctima de la marioneta cósmica de Minos. Así pues, es el primer Caballero Dorado que perece en la batalla al defender a la ladea colindante con el Santuario.
Uno pensaría que las bajas son de ambos lados, sin embargo, Hades es suficientemente poderoso para revivir a su ejército cuantas veces sea necesario, lo cual supone un problema más grande de lo que imaginaban.
Unicornio, Pegaso y Yuzuriha están en una misión para cambiar el tablero, pero ¡¿de qué se tratará?!
I didn’t buy this manga but my brother actually bought the complete manga collection of the saga, therefore he lent me this volume to be able of reading it. My brother bought the Spanish translated version but I am choosing the English edition to make the review easier to work and to avoid having to do a bilingual review. I apologize in advance if I’d mispronounce some name or term on English since I am actually reading the books on Spanish.
This manga volume collects “Saint Seiya – The Lost Canvas” chapters #16-24.
Creative Team
Writer & Illustrator: Shiori Teshirogi
Based on the original manga series Saint Seiya created by Masami Kuromada
ALBAFICA RULES!
While the protagonist of the original series was Pegasus Seiya, a bronze saint giving tile to the franchise of Saint Seiya and therefore, here, in The Lost Canvas, the protagonist is Tenma wearing the Pegasus Cloth, once again, a bronze saint, any fan of the franchise will tell you that the best goddang thing in the franchise are the Gold Saints, which here in The Lost Canvas fortunately are in the good side…
…since in the original series, most of them were managed as antagonists in the iconic “Twelve Houses” saga…
…and fortunately in following sagas they were once again, champions of justice, especially in their own OVA series Soul of Gold…
…but a really cool thing in The Lost Canvas is that they are heroes rightaway, ready to protect Athena by any means until their last breath…
…and now, finally we can read the first real battle of a Gold Saint against one of the Three Judges of the Underworld!
Griffon Minos aka “The Puppeteer”, one of the Three Judges of the Underworld, is sent by Hades and Pandora to invade the Sanctuary and killing Athena…
…BUT…
…first Minos and his group of specters, will have to face none other than…
…Pisces Albafica, a Gold Saint so powerful that he’s considered a whole defensive barrier on his own! Albafica is in control of several roses’ fields around the Sanctuary, the near villages and even between his house, the Pisces House and the Patriach’s Chamber…
…but they’re not regular roses’ field as you already may guess, oh no! They’re poisoned roses of several colors, red, black and white, each with different effects, and Albafica is in control of all of them and since he’s in contact with those poisoned roses for so many time, a downside is that he opted to remain out of contact of people since his blood is already toxic to anybody else.
A young girl admires to Albafica since he met him in the past, and she’s told his story and why he avoided contact of the rest around him, and she’s praying for him since she knows that she and her village won’t get any harm if Albafica is out there, battling for the safety of them and the Sanctuary.
Meanwhile, Yato and Yuzuriha found Tenma, and after battling against Mandrake Fyodor, an specter, they explained him that they were sent to get him back to the world of living, but first, they have an additional mission, one which is pivotal to assure thee victory of Athena’s army against the hordes of Hades, due that Hades is literally the Master of Death, his specters don’t remain ”dead” after being beaten in the world of the living and Hades can bring them back to “life”, so Yuzuriha was told to find a very special tree in the Underwold to stop for good that unfair advantage of Hades’ demonic hordes against Athena’s righteous army.
This definitely is the best volume so far, of the three that I’ve read (and I knew that it’ll be that way since I watched the anime adaptation) and maybe it’d fair to give 4 stars to the first two volumes and this third one a full 5 stars rating, since it’s indeed far superior and more exciting than the two previous ones, but I won’t change my initial rating of those volumes, since after, they were pretty good too, but it’s clear that The Lost Canvas story started to really pump up here, with (obviously) the first real battle of a Gold Saint.
"Se dice que las rosas, tan bellas, poseen espinas." "Pero Dohko... es por sus espinas que están solas." Con un excelente dibujo, el tercer tomo que comprende los mangas del 16 al 24, Teshirogi nos presenta como la Guerra Santa llega al Santuario. Y con ello el enfrentamiento épico entre Albafica de Piscis, y Minos de Grifo. Lleno de mucho sentimiento, la mangaka nos presenta la soledad de los caballeros dorados en la interminable lucha contra el mal, representada en la vida de Albafica. Sin embargo, la fuerza adquirida de los caballeros dorados no solo radica en la fortaleza física, sino que se nos presenta que esta viene de su sentido de justicia y sacrificio. Un tomo muy bueno que ya se adentra en las batallas y el choque de filosofías que empieza a caracterizar este manga.
Ce tome c'est juste un combat... Mais j'adore quand même 😂 Vraiment ça m'a captivé et entraîné, ce qui n'arrive pas souvent même avec les animés ! J'adore toujours autant l'univers (en même temps Saint Seiya quoi !) qui mélange astrologie et mythologie grecque d'une manière incroyable, et je me demande vraiment comment ça va se finir (dans le déroulement, la fin reste quand même assez prévisible je pense... Mais il y aura peut-être une bonne surprise 🤷🏾♂️) Oh, par contre, détail super dommage : ça ressemble beaucoup trop aux premières séries. Les chevaliers d'or ont le même chara design (limite ya que leur nom qui change) et la relation Tenma/Sasha ressemble aussi énormément à Seiya et Saori (ya aucun changement pour le design de Sasha, vraiment), mais ça passe, on l'oublie un peu.
He estado pensando que no haré reseñas de LC puesto que se me hace más práctico comentar algunas cosas conforme avance y debido a que la historia por tomo es muy concisa como para explayarme haciendo una reseña. Solo diré que es una historia que me esta gustando mucho y el ir conociendo personajes nuevos conforme avanza la trama la hace interesante, a pesar de que algunos solamente aparezcan por muy poco tiempo. Dicho esto, Albafica ha resultado ser uno de mis preferidos.