Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy War



Saint Seiya: Warrior of the Final Holy War (聖闘士星矢 最終聖戦の戦士たち) is the fourth movie of the original Saint Seiya series, which premiered on March 18, 1989.

Plot
Lucifer has been awoken from his eternal slumber by the spirits of Eris, Abel and Poseidon. He has come to kill Athena and fulfill his heart's burning desire: becoming the strongest of all the gods.

New Characters

 * Lucifer
 * Thrones Mois
 * Beelzebub
 * Virtue Eligor
 * Astaroth

Old characters

 * Saori Kido
 * Pegasus Seiya
 * Andromeda Shun
 * Cygnus Hyoga
 * Phoenix Ikki
 * Dragon Shiryu
 * Eris
 * Abel
 * Aries Mu
 * Taurus Aldebaran
 * Leo Aiolia
 * Virgo Shaka
 * Scorpio Milo

Trivia

 * This is the first film that uses themes from the Christian religion. The second would be in the film titled Saint Seiya: Saga del Cielo ~overture~ (due to the use of angels).
 * the apparitions of Moa and Eligor could be influenced by the creation of Myū de Papillón and that: When Eligor gets out of it's cocoon, looks like when Myū evolves its final form. When Moa appears, she is surrounded by a heap of fairies, just like Myū.
 * The movie was suppose to be the last one and the final of the origial anime.
 * When the film was released for the first time on TV screens in Latin America, the scenes were censored: the first, the defeat of the Gold Saints, by theAngels of Lucifer and the second censorship involves the scene of the bible burning when Hyōga explains who is Lucifer.
 * Shingo Araki, the main desiger on the classic anime, was busy finishing the final chapters of the TV series, so his participation in the film was impossible. In this way he contacted Masahiro Naoi as character designer and animation director for the film. This explains why of the five films, it is the only one that differs completely in aesthetics from the other four.