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Crunchyroll Adds Saint Seiya - Soul of Gold Anime

Media distribution service Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it will stream the anime Saint Seiya - Soul of Gold (Saint Seiya -Ōgonkon-) as it airs in Japan. New episodes will premiere on Fridays starting on April 10 at 11:00 a.m. EDT for and one week later for free .

The stream will be available in the United States, Canada, and in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America (South America, Central America, and Caribbean).

The series will also premiere on the Bandai Channel streaming service worldwide on April 21.

Takeshi Furuta (Saint Seiya Omega storyboards, director on The Comic Artist and His Assistants) is helming the anime, and Toshimitsu Takeuchi (scripts on Reideen, Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor, Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter) is in charge of the series scripts. Hideyuki Motohashi (Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas animation director, B'tX, Ceres, Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yugi) is deg the characters.

Masami Kurumada's original mythological fantasy manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1985 to 1990, and it has over 34 million copies in print worldwide. The manga quickly inspired a 1986 television anime series that was popular not only in Japan, but also in , Italy, other parts of Europe, Brazil, other parts of South and Central America, and Asia. The anime aired in more than 80 countries.

Saint Seiya Omega, a film directed by Keiichi Satou (Tiger & Bunny, Ashura) opened last June.

Crunchyroll is also streaming Saint Seiya, Saint Seiya: Sanctuary, Saint Seiya Hades, Saint Seiya Omega, and Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas in varoious regions.