Crystal was a scrub who Hyoga beat after 1 fight. He also didn't teach Hyoga how to keep his cool like Camus or get to absolute Zero which Camus DIED to do. Camus was strict but a good teacher. And honestly that ship needed to sunk. No man should spend ANY amount of time underwater to looking at his mom's preserved corpses. Hyoga has a HUGE Oedipus complex which needed curing.
i mean from what we see in the anime, Crystal taught him how to be a saint. Camus taught him Aurora Execution.
Even if you take into account the whole spiel the correct way to act as a saint (that the rest of the order basically coudln't give less of a shit about) it's not even really used by Hyoga at all.
heck Hyoga took the lesson to heart so well that in Poseidon he got taken advantage of twice because of that.
At this point, it's not a question of which character is a better teacher, it's really how bad that student was.
Gender-bending him wouldn't do it as he'd be the same but a girl. They should've played up his role as the Sanctuary's assassin as he was sent to kill the other Bronze Saints at first.
Which still would be a better idea than doing it to Shun.
From memory, he comes to kill them all, banter a little and decide to help them because why the hell not.
Considering the plan they had in mind, Hyoga as an assassin should have been cut entirely.
Like the whole 1st part is an elaborate way of dealing with the Kido/Graad organization, there's no real need for any character beyond Seiya and Ikki.
That's the reason for 95% of the plot issues and non-canon characters filling roles later filled by characters in the manga. Toei started the anime too soon after the manga started. Like, way sooner than even Dragon Ball did.
It's amazing how many of their changes create later plot issues. Even in Next Dimension. One of the best moments in that manga would have had to have had some changes to work with how Toei did things in the Sanctuary Arc.
Also, yeah turning Hyoga vs Camus from Student vs Master to Student's Student vs Master's Master really brought the emotions of that fight low.
And let's not forget how Toei tried to have Capricorn Shura be the ultimate good justice guy...when it turns out he was just as much a part of the traitor's club as Cancer Deathmask and Pisces Aphrodite (though not as bad as Deathmask's crazy ass).
I would love to get a proper remake of the original series at some point, with good animation, keep the awesome music, and bring back as much of the old cast as possible. Toei may have had some rough points in the writing, especially for early filler (Steel Saints...), but the music and voice acting was perfection.
You sure about that? Because the Sagittarius Gold Cloth was introduced in volume 1, and Saori mentions the Gold Cloths being associated with the 12 signs of the Zodiac.
Yeah, we didn't see anyone armored at that point, but I think the concepts were there.
The anime started october 86 when the manga started in january.
It was an overnight success or they wouldn't have done the animation so early in the manga.
I don't think the concept of 12 gold saints where there to begin with.
we would need the original scans to tell as the volume releases that is all we have now contains lots of changes done for volume release, it can go as far as adding a whole chapter (like Ikki meeting Shaka).
It changed a lot. Like the pope tried to kill athena as a baby but toei said the evil pope took over when his brother died recently
The pope chronology is all kind of screwy and made no sense back then (not even sure it does now).
Like the old pope was good and gave Seiya his cloth but then he dies and is replaced by his brother who is evil or something.
But then you have the Saga plot that ties onto this but not neatly.
Sometimes they took liberties with the adaptation and it came to bite them neatly in the ass.
