Black Saints

The Black Saints (暗黒聖闘士, Burakku Seinto), also known as Ankoku Saints (暗黒聖闘士, Ankoku Seinto) in the manga and anime adaptation, initially appear as servants of the Bronze Saint Phoenix Ikki, on his quest to kill all the Bronze Saints. The origin of the Black Saints is to be located in the Myth Age when some rebel alchemists wanted to copy the extraordinary 88 Cloths created by the legendary alchemist race of the Mu continent (the ancestors of Jamir people) but created only many pale doubles. There are so many Phoenix Black Cloth because the Phoenix Cloth, that is somehow the best Cloth in existence due to his power to reborn stronger and stronger from its ashes, is the one they wanted to copy the most, but with poor results, despite the numerous tries. All of the Black Saints trained in Death Queen Island along with several sons from Mitsumasa Kido, but most of them died because they didn't have the real abilities to become true Saints. There are many Black Saints on Death Queen Island but the strongest among them are the ones called "The Black Four". Their Cloths and techniques are counterparts to the ones from Pegasus Seiya, Dragon Shiryū, Andromeda Shun and Cygnus Hyōga. Although, there is only one counterpart of each Cloth, in the manga the Black Dragon Saint has a blind brother that helps him to fight. There are also those several Black Phoenix Saints mentioned before, who refer to themselves as Ikki's shadows, although in the anime one of them appears as the strongest one. As for the others, not much is known about them but they are all easily killed by Ikki. Before Ikki, their leader was a man called Jango who protects the Phoenix Cloth until he is killed by Ikki. The four Black Saints are defeated by their equivalents during the series, and in the manga they are later killed by the Silver Saints, who were meant to kill the Bronze Saints, but mistook them due to an illusion created by Aries Mu.



Black Pegasus
Black Pegasus' version of Black Ryuseiken (meteor punch) causes poison in Seiya's body with burning black marks that spreads all over Seiya's body. Over time, Seiya was later saved by Shiryu by drawing out the black blood from the 13 pegasus star points on his body.
 * Age: 15
 * Birthdate: July 13
 * Birthplace: Israel
 * Training place: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: Black Ryuseiken (ブラック流星拳, Burakku Ryūseiken), also known as Black Death Punch (黒死拳, Kokushiken). Known in the anime as Dark Ryuseiken (暗黒流星拳, Ankoku Ryūseiken)
 * Seiyu: Shigeru Nakahara (中原 茂, Nakahara Shigeru)

Black Dragon
Black Dragon is the strongest of the 4 black saints. Before Black Dragon's death by Shiryu's defeat, he was finally convinced to believe in "Friendship" that Shiryu kept telling him about and stopped Shiryu's bleeding before he died.
 * Age: 15
 * Birthdate: August 10
 * Birthplace: Poland
 * Training place: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: attack using one finger, or having his brother attack from the shadows
 * Seiyu: Ken Yamaguchi (山口 健, Yamaguchi Ken)

Black Dragon (the hidden one)
He is The blinded elder twin brother of Black Dragon. He appeared in manga only. Shun's nebula chain noticed the hidden Black Dragon and Shun warned Shiryu to watch out for the one in hiding. Shiryu finally realizes the existence of the hidden Black Dragon and defeated him with one hit.
 * Age: 15
 * Birthday: August 8
 * Birthplace: Poland
 * Training place: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: Ability to hide in the darkness, shadow like to Black Dragon and combine attacks.

Black Cygnus
Black Cygnus trained to be a Black Saint on Death Queen Island (like all Black Saints) by an unknown master. The cloth was likely kept on Death Queen Island until a man strong enough, and wicked enough, to wear it was found. Like all Black Saints, Black Cygnus was an evil man who fought with rather deadly moves, and intense loyalty to Ikki. Black Cygnus first appeared in volume 3 of the manga, as the one who takes the shoulderplates of the Sagittarius Gold Cloth. Black Cygnus eventually fights Hyoga a second time, but is taken out by Hyoga's ice. Having been left one arm free, he tears out his own eye, teleporting it to Ikki, to reveal Hyoga's move. He was left half dead from his wounds; the Silver Saints were tricked into killing three of the Black Saints at least.
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 * Birthdate: December 28
 * Birthplace: Finland
 * Training location: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: Black Blizzard (黒吹雪, Burakku Burizādo)
 * Seiyu: Kazumi Tanaka (田中 和実, Tanaka Kazumi)

Black Andromeda

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 * Birthdate: October 4
 * Birthplace: Turkey
 * Training place: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: Black Fang Nebula ((暗黒流牙星雲, Burakku Fangu Nebyura) also known in the anime as Dark Nebula Chain (暗黒ネビュラチェーン, Ankoku Nebyura Cēn)
 * Seiyu: Kaneto Shiozawa (塩沢 兼人, Shiozawa Kaneto)

Black Andromeda trained to be a Black Saint on Death Queen Island (like all Black Saints) by an unknown master. The cloth was likely kept on until a man strong enough, and wicked enough, to wear it was found. Like all Black Saints, Black Andromeda was an evil man who fought with rather deadly moves, and intense loyalty to Ikki. Black Andromeda first appeared in volume 3 of the manga, as the one who takes the body of the Sagittarius Gold Cloth. Black Andromeda eventually fights Shun, but is taken out by Shun's Chains. He was left half dead from his wounds; the Silver Saints were tricked into killing three of the Black Saints at least.

Black Phoenix

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 * Training Place: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: Black wings of the Phoenix, Shadow warriors of Ikki(phoenix saint)
 * Seiyu: Michihiro Ikemizu (池水 通洋, Ikemizu Michihiro)

Ikki's Shadows were trained to be Black Saint on Death Queen Island (like all Black Saints) by an unknown master. The cloths were likely kept on Death Queen Island until these evil, wicked men proved themselves "worthy" of the Cloths. The Black Phoenix Saints, unlike their master, proved to be more fodder than anything else, and failed to do well, even against injured, unarmed Bronze Saints. The Fodder first appear in volume 3 of the manga, to take the Sagittarius Gold Cloth. These grunts show little aptitude for battling at the level of Seiya and company, and quickly fall, one by one, to the true Saints of Athena.

Jango
 Jango is General of the Black Saint after Ikki's redemption. He was killed by Ikki who used Phoenix Gemma Ken.
 * Age: 18
 * Birthdate: August 8
 * Birthplace: Samoa
 * Training location: Death Queen Island
 * Techniques: Death Queen Inferno
 * Seiyu: Banjo Ginga (銀河 万丈, Ginga Banjō)