Crystal Saint

Crystal Saint
Age	17 years
Gender	Male
Date of birth	February 3
Astrological sign	Aquarius
Class	Saint of Athena, Blue Warriors(?)
Rank	Retired Saint
Cloth	Crystal Memorial
Training	West Siberia, Siberia
Master(s)	Aquarius Camus
Apprentice(s)	Cygnus Hyōga Kraken Isaak

The Crystal Saint (水晶聖闘士クリスタルセイント, Kurisutaru Seinto) is an anime exclusive character. He is Cygnus Hyoga's and Kraken Isaac's master in the anime adaptation, as opposed to the manga, in which their master is Aquarius Camus. In the anime, Camus was the Crystal Saint's master instead. This happened because the anime was being produced at the same time as the first arcs of the manga. At some point the anime overtook the events of the manga, so anime-original characters and arcs were needed to be created, that later conflicted with the canon story, since the producers weren't aware of Camus' existence by that point.

Personality

The Crystal Saint is a very honorable and righteous Saint. He is a kind but also austere master for Hyoga and Isaac.

Chronology

He was considered a threat by Pope Arles, who forced him under his control with his Genrou Maou Ken technique. After an emotional battle with Hyoga, the Crystal Saint takes his own life to stop Sanctuary from conquering the West Siberia.

Skills and abilities

Techniques

• Frozen Fist (凍結拳, Tōketsu-ken): A technique that freezes the feet of the opponent to immobilize them.

Variation: He uses a variation against Cygnus Hyōga.

• Diamond Dust (ダイヤモンドダスト, Daiyamondo Dasuto)

Variation:

Gallery

The Crystal Saint under the control of Saga.

The Crystal Saint's ultimate technique.

The death of the Crystal Saint.

The Crystal Saint's Tomb.

Trivia

• In the Hades Saga, which has nothing to do with the original anime, a memory of Hyoga shows that his master was Camus. Since then, in subsequent storylines or adaptations of past storylines, the Crystal Saint is largely disregarded in favor of Camus as Hyoga's mentor.
• "Crystal" is not his actual name (which is unknown), but his "category".
• This Saint was created to develop Hyoga's relationships, as back then nothing was known about his actual master and Hyoga was the only Bronze Saint who was not related to any living character.
• The Crystal Saint was designed by animator Michi Himeno, inspired by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's Art Nouveau style, as seen on the details of the Crystal Cloth.
• In the Saint Seiya pachinko game, there is a scene where the Crystal Saint appears training a younger Hyoga, however, Isaac does not appear in said scene.