Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas Gaiden

After the conclusion of Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Myth of Hades, Shiori Teshirogi started a spin-off series titled ("gaiden" is Japanese for "side story" or "spin-off"). The spin-off series tells stories about the twelve Gold Saints. The majority of the episodes take place many years before The Lost Canvas. Only three are set after the main series.

This spin-off and the original The Lost Canvas manga are set in an alternate timeline to Saint Seiya: Next Dimension. Both series tell different stories with different characters set in the same time period.

Chronological List of Gaiden
According to the information from the original 1986 manga, The Lost Canvas is set around 1745.

Anachronisms
The stories are set around the year 1745, but the characters often wear clothes from the next centuries, as well as show advanced scientific knowledge.


 * Scorpius' chapter 2 is set in Central America, that was the Spanish colony of Mexico at the time. Instead, the bar patrons are dressed like American cow-boys from the late 1800.
 * During Aquarius' chapter 3, some eyeglasses are shown with oval lenses, but at the time all eyeglasses had circular lenses.

Anachronistic knowledge:
 * During Sagittarius'  chapter, the link between Leo Ilias and his son Leo Regulus is depicted by a DNA chain, but DNA was discovered 200 years later, in the 1950s.
 * During Scorpius' chapter, he knows that the sun is a star (conversely, that stars are "far away suns"), but that fact was discovered almost 100 years later (Fraunhofer spectroscopy). Furthermore, Scorpius knows that Antares is a red giant, but that fact was discovered during XX Century (nuclear astrophysics).
 * During Aquarius' chapter, characters talk about the absolute zero temperature of -273.15 °C, that was measured 100 years later, in 1848. Furthermore, during that dialogue they talk about atoms the way science describes them since the mid-1800 Century, and an image of atoms shows them the way they are depicted since the 1930s only.