Hydra Ichi

Hydra Ichi is one of the characters in the manga Saint Seiya.

He is one of the Bronze Saints of Athena.

Childhood
Ichi is one of the 100 orphans that were brought into the Graude Foundation. The orphans were trained to become the future saints the will protect the goddess Athena.

After a few years training in the orphanage,the 100 orphans were sent around the world to train and bring back the saint cloth to protect Saori Kido, Mitsumasa Kido's foster granddaughter, who is also the present reincarnation of Athena.

He went to Finland for training and after six years he obtained the Hydra Cloth.

Galaxian Wars
Ichi returned to Japan to participate in the tournament for the Sagittarius Cloth. His first fight was against Hyoga. At first he got the upperhand and beat Hyoga. He even used his Hydra Fangs on him. Then Hyoga explains the similarity of the monster Hydra and the Hydra Cloth and he froze Ichi's right hand but still Ichi attacked him using his knees and to everyone's surprise his knees also have fangs. But Hyoga remained unharmed,and thus explaining that the Cygnus Cloth repelled the poison of Hydra Fangs. Ichi was surprised and he was defeated by Hyoga's Diamond Dust.

The Twelve Temples
After his loss he returned to Finland to train. He later came back with the other bronze saints Ban, Geki, Nachi and Jabu and headed to the Sanctuary to save Tatsumi and the comatose Athena. They stayed there until Saga's defeat.

Hades Arc
Ichi and Nachi were appointed as Sanctuary guards but as the dead Silver Saints started to appear they realized that their attacks will be useless and they were saved by Jabu. Later he appeared and tried to protect Seika from Thanatos, which act put his life at risk.

Powers and Cloth
The Hydra Cloth is based on the Hydra constellation.

Poison Fangs: Poisonous claws come from every part of his claws and the target hit by them will be paralyzed and slowly dies. Once they hit the target, the claws will come out of the cloth but new claws regenerate very fast giving infinite supply.