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| - Saint Seiya Episode G (聖闘士星矢EPISODE・G, Seinto Seiya Episōdo Jī) is an ongoing shōnen manga written and illustrated by Megumu Okada. A side-story and a derivative work of Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya, it first started being serialized in the monthly magazine Champion Red on 19th January 2003 and was later compiled into volumes by Akita Shoten, with the first being published on 19th June 2003. The story is set in 1979-1980, five years before the events of the original Saint Seiya manga (1985-1990) and seven years after the death of the Sagittarius Gold Saint Aiolos (1972), the brother of Episode G's main character. It takes place in a fictional universe where the Greek gods cyclically reincarnate into the world, often waging war on each other for dominance, and depicts the battle of the Gold Saints, warriors with superhuman powers who fight for Peace and Justice in the name of the Goddess Athena, to protect the Earth from the recently awakened Titan gods. Saint Seiya Episode G has been translated into various other languages by publishers from around the world, where it was well received, but not without controversy regarding its differences to Saint Seiya. It has been criticized as a "manga in slow motion": during battles, a single hit at the speed of light can often require several pages. Also, the over-detailed drawings by Megumu Okada sometimes make it difficult to distinguish between characters and backgound. Saint Seiya Episode G it has never been published in English. Note: in the manga Episode G there are some details, some elements that are not consistent with the original Saint Seiya.
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