聖闘士星矢 9 (ジャンプコミックスDIGITAL)

聖闘士星矢 Saint Seiya #9

by Masami Kurumada

【対決！ 青銅聖闘士VS黄金聖闘士!!】黄金聖闘士を相手に戦いを続ける星矢たち。双児宮、巨蟹宮を抜け、獅子宮へとたどり着く。星矢と対峙する、教皇に洗脳され戦闘マシーンと化したアイオリアに、星矢のペガサス流星拳が炸裂!!　そんな中、アイオリアの目を覚ますため、獅子宮にかけつけたカシオスがとった行動は…!!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fantasy, Mythology, Action, Graphic Novels

180 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

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.

Reviews

[~Cyanide Latte~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

For as ridiculous as this series can get with its stereotypical shonen tropes, breakneck pace, rambling storyline and general extremes that rattle suspension of disbelief, I can absolutely say I've reached that point where I'm gotten invested and a little attached to the main characters overall. As said in my review of volume 8, I've somehow gotten hooked in spite of myself.

We see more advances through the 12 palaces of the gold knights/saints in this volume, and I personally appreciated the time it took to split up our four bronze boys and give them each their own sort of grim challenges to face during this race against time. Seeing both Shiryû and Shun have a chance to shine is always nice, especially given the odds they're each up against. (Of course Seiya has a spotlight moment himself, and I just need to accept that, regardless of my own disinterest in him.) And even Hyôga goes through some intense shit that's going to leave us wondering (though probably not a lot) about what will happen to him before he rejoins the rest of the knights.

Granted, I feel a need to quibble about the stereotypes of the 12 signs of the Western Zodiac, because there are so many harmful stereotypes out there about the signs (and there are definitely a couple in here,) and it did cause me to put the volume down for a moment. I actually wound up writing an essay about my issues with that sort of thing to placate my annoyance before returning to this volume. Overall though, I still enjoyed it. Here's looking forward to volume 10! (Which I'll have to read in Kindle Edition. I've been keeping an eye out online for print copies of volume 10 to hopefully one day own, but until every seller on the internet stops being a jackwad and trying to sell their copies for upwards of $200 USD, that ain't happening. Even I have my limits.)

[Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Man, this is annoying sometimes, VIZ's "localization." Saori is turned to "Sienna" for some reason, but Deathmask is openly referring to Yomotsu Hirasaka of Japanese lore. Like, instead of bastardizing it to the River Styx or something. Oh, and never mind Deathmask's name being changed to "Mephisto"; this dude straight up says something like (paraphrasing a bit) "I have the death masks of all my victims, that's why they call me Mephisto." Uh, you mean that's why they call you Deathmask, right? The thing you said doesn't make any fucking sense.

Anyway, for the manga itself and not VIZ's rape of Kurumada's work: another good volume. We're running through the Gold Saints pretty quickly, which feels like the Bronzes are getting stronger and stronger. I maybe don't really love how Gemini and Cancer both have a "teleports you into a different dimension" power, but whatever.

Shout-outs to that boy Cassios!

[Joshua Sloan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Guys, this series is real dumb. But there is something endearing about it.

[Jean Flantier · Rating 3 out of 5]

J’ai terminé l’arc principal des chevaliers du zodiaque (flemme de lire la suite avec Asgard). Ça a vieilli mais c’était hyper sympa.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cómo me molesta que las tapas de esta serie no digan nada y sean tan fáciles de mezclar. En este tomo creo que ya estábamos en la Casa de Cáncer pero lo tendría que tener a mano para corroborar, y eso que lo debo haber leído al menos dos veces en esta edición.

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Edición argentina, tomo 9 (de 28).