Shaina (シャイナ, Shaina) is one of the two most relevant secondary female characters in the classic Saint Seiya story, alongside Marin. Furthermore, she is the female Saint of Ophiuchus during the War between Athena and Poseidon, and Athena and Hades in the 20th Century. Subsequently, she also became the master of Pegasus Kōga in the holy wars between Athena and Mars and between Athena and Pallas in the 21st Century, narrated in the Spin-Off Saint Seiya Ω. She is one of the few women who exist within Athena's Army, but to be so, she had to renounce her femininity by hiding her face behind a mask. Despite being so young, she was the Master of Cassios, who disputed the Pegasus Cloth with Seiya. In the Spin-Off Saint Seiya Ω during her adulthood, she became the master of Kōga, Seiya's successor as the Pegasus Saint.
Personality[]
Shaina is a temperamental woman with a strong character and at times, she is insolent. Her aggressiveness in combat is also reflected in her behavior; her comrades in arms at the Sanctuary treat Shaina with absolute respect.
As a master, Shaina can be as strict as Marin, of whom she initially felt a particular envy for her student's progress, something Shaina didn't pay particular attention to when training her own pupil (Shaina trained Cassios in the use of his physical strength but did not teach him the fundamentals of the cosmos, which are necessary to become a Saint). After Seiya saw her face for the first time, she began to develop an obsession with the Pegasus Saint that bordered on rivalry, but later that obsession to kill Seiya turned into love (in the anime, a scene suggests it wasn't the first time Seiya had seen Shaina without her mask). Something that is reinforced when she is gravely wounded by Aiolia and when she subsequently loses her student Cassios, her attitude changes. Now aware that Saori Kido is the reincarnation of the Goddess Athena, Shaina becomes a warrior faithful to her goddess.
She is a secondary character from the spin-off Saint Seiya: Rerise of Poseidon. She, along with Kiki, goes to the Temple of Nemesis to discover the origin of the meteor shower on Earth.
History[]
Episode G[]
Around the world, strange things are happening. In Egypt, an immense jungle has appeared in the desert, where a Saber-toothed Tiger attacks people. Retsu manages to stop it and tries to convince the people to temporarily cease their investigation. Shaina, who was accompanying him, succeeds in defeating the Beast.
Before the 12 Houses[]
Manga[]
Shaina was Cassios's master. Before her student's confrontation with Seiya, she mentions a rumor that he wanted to escape (implying he should be punished for desertion). This accusation is denied by Marin, which enrages Shaina, who shouts that an oriental should not and has no right to wear a Cloth. At this, Aiolia appears and defends Seiya, saying that nothing prevents an oriental from becoming a Saint.
During the fight, she's surprised to see Seiya cut off her apprentice's ear. She's also annoyed by the soldiers' comments in favor of Seiya, once again demonstrating her displeasure at the idea of a Japanese person taking an armor.
That night, she and a group of soldiers pursue Seiya because she doesn't condone the idea of a Japanese person taking the Cloth out of Greece. She encounters Seiya and Marin and attacks the new Bronze Saint, demonstrating her superior speed and throwing him off a cliff. When she goes to retrieve the Cloth, she's surprised by an attack from Seiya that breaks the sound barrier; upon seeing him wearing the Cloth, she fights him again, overcoming him once more because he hadn't become one with the Cloth. After this, she grabs her adversary and asks why he isn't fighting seriously, to which Seiya replies that it's because she's a woman, leaving Shaina somewhat surprised. Just as she's about to deliver the finishing blow, she's interrupted by soldiers who begin to attack Seiya instead of her. It's at that moment that the Bronze Saint decides to get serious (now that he's fighting men), defeating all the soldiers and breaking Shaina's mask in the process. This leaves her stunned and thinking that if Seiya could break her mask with air pressure, being just a novice, it's possible he could become a formidable Saint.
When Seiya retreats with Marin, Shaina warns him that next time she'll be wearing her Cloth and wants him to fight seriously.
Shaina reappears when she's sent by the Sanctuary, along with Algol, Dante, Capella, and Jamian, to Japan to destroy the Graad Colosseum and kill the rebels who participated in it. She goes after the Bronze Saints after Misty's group failed, but she only watches from a distance as Seiya reveals to Shiryū, Shun, and Hyōga the truth Ikki had told him: that all the orphans chosen by the Graad Foundation were Mitsumasa Kido's children.
She appears before Seiya after he broke his arm rescuing Saori. The Silver Saint mentions that he only has three options: defeat her, defeat Jamian, or jump into the void. When the Bronze Saint chooses to jump, she merely says he's always taking risks and that at night, jumping like that, he looks like a comet. Afterward, Shaina feels from above the cliff how Saori ignites her Cosmo to defend Seiya from Jamian, wondering if there could be someone superior to a Saint down there. After this, Algol asks her why she's taking so long and warns her that the Pope has ordered her to return to the Sanctuary.
After her comrades' defeat, Shaina decides to attack Seiya in the hospital, revealing that she never obeyed the orders to return to the Sanctuary. There, she reveals to Seiya the reason she pursues him so much: the Law of the Masks, which states that because he has seen her face, she had only two options, one of them being to kill him. Unable to reveal the second option due to embarrassment, she lunges to attack Seiya. At that instant, she's interrupted by the Sagittarius Cloth which reveals its true form. After this, both feel a great power outside the hospital and, looking out, discover it's the Gold Saint, Aiolia of Leo. Shaina is surprised to see him and wonders what the Patriarch's intentions are in wanting to eliminate the Bronze Saints so eagerly. Immediately, she orders Seiya to escape, warning him that Gold Saints are stronger than Black Saints and Silver Saints. Instantly, they are dragged outside by Aiolia's power, whom she tries to convince to entrust her with defeating Seiya. Aiolia, having warned her that she would get hurt, knocks her out with a light-speed attack with just one finger.
During the discussion between Aiolia and Seiya, she protects the latter with her body from the Gold Saint's deadly attack, ending up severely wounded. On the verge of losing consciousness, she reveals the second condition of the Law of the Masks: to fall in love with whoever has seen her without the mask, to which she asks Seiya to forgive her for falling in love with him.
After Seiya returned his attack to Aiolia with the help of Aiolos's spirit in the Sagittarius Cloth, the Leo Saint decides to withdraw and take Shaina to the Sanctuary to heal her wounds.
Anime[]
Initially, Shaina aligned herself with the Sanctuary and the Pope, primarily due to the envy she felt towards Marin of Eagle and Seiya, as the latter defeated her disciple Cassios in the battle to obtain the Pegasus Cloth. Later, she became the Bronze Saint's greatest rival, as the first time they fought, Seiya broke the Saint's mask and saw her face, which is strictly forbidden. According to the Sanctuary's rules, when a female Saint's face is seen by a man, she only has two options: kill him or love him.
Shaina trains hard to become stronger and seek revenge.
Shaina bellypunch Marin
After some time, Shaina wishes to test her strength and, in passing, take revenge on Marin, so she sets up an ambush, arranging a supposed training match. Shaina begins by testing Marin, and although Marin manages to dodge, she cannot sustain the hand-to-hand combat and is forced to retreat, tired and panting. Shaina mocks her and makes her see that this is a real fight, and although Marin manages to get into guard, she falls knocked out with a simple Thunder Claw.
But in her revenge, Shaina wants to inflict the greatest possible pain before finishing off her rival and doesn't let Marin recover. She continues to hit her to paralyze her movements without letting her lose consciousness until, with a kick to the head, she launches her against the soldiers, leaving her completely stunned at her mercy. Then Shaina changes strategy and lunges at Marin using her fists, which hit even harder.
Shaina completely humiliates Marin, giving her a brutal beating. Marin cannot react to such a series of devastating punches and soon begins to bleed profusely, but Aiolia quickly interrupts the fight, saving Marin. Shaina even dares to threaten him and leaves even angrier because Aiolia reminded her of Cassios's defeat. Later, she recommends her friend Geist to be sent to finish off the Bronze Saints. However, upon learning that Geist is killed, Shaina decides to take revenge.
On Seiya's first visit to the Sanctuary as a Knight, Shaina is waiting for him, but this time with her armor. In combat, Shaina has no problem dominating Seiya's meteors and hitting him with her Thunder Claw. After a clash of techniques, Shaina manages to defeat Seiya and begins to strangle him, but Marin intervenes, sending him to help Hyōga and allowing him to escape by blocking the way. Shaina with her armor could have defeated Marin again, but it is not honorable to attack an unarmed rival, nor to risk being discovered doing this outside the Sanctuary.
Shaina, Algol and Spartan ready to attack Bronze Saints
Later on, with the help of two Silver Saints, Perseus Algol and Pyxis Spartan, they trap Seiya, Shiryū, and Shun on an island, facing Pegasus again. This time, she is defeated by a new technique from her rival. Finally, she helps Crow Jamian, another Silver Saint, with the kidnapping of Athena, but she ends up defeated by an attack. Shaina has another confrontation with Seiya when he's recovering from his wounds at the Graad Foundation Hospital. At that moment, the Saint tells Pegasus that she must kill him, as he saw her face in the past. However, the combat is interrupted by the arrival of Leo Aiolia. On this occasion, Shaina recognizes that she loves Seiya and protects him with her body from the Gold Saint's deadly attack, ending up gravely wounded, which is why Aiolia decides to withdraw and take her to the Sanctuary to heal her wounds.
Saintia Shō[]
New Holy War Against Eris[]
Following the resurrection of Eris, Shaina appears at the Sanctuary where she defeats a group of Dryads.
Battle of the Twelve Houses[]
She reappears when Seiya is in the Leo House and Cassios sacrifices his life to save Pegasus's, understanding that his master loved him and didn't want to see her suffer from the Bronze Saint's death. Afterward, she crosses paths with Aiolia, who is carrying Cassios's dead body and wants to go see the Pope, but Aiolia forcibly prevents her. When Seiya is unconscious in Aphrodite's rose garden, Shaina helps Marin escape from the Sanctuary's soldiers so that Marin can assist Seiya, while Shaina stays to fight. Later, she reunites with Seiya and the unconscious Marin. Shaina stays to care for Marin while Seiya goes to meet the Pope. When Marin wakes up, she tells Shaina that she was at Star Hill and found the true Pope's body, making them wonder who Seiya is with. Afterward, she is present at Saga's suicide in front of Athena.
War in Asgard[]
Shaina vs Bud
She is tasked by Marin with revealing the secret of Syd and his shadow to the Bronze Saints. Once Shun has defeated the God Warrior, she protects the Bronze Saint from a treacherous attack by Alcor Bud, Syd's twin brother and shadow. After a brief exchange of blows, she is easily defeated, later being helped by Ikki, who finishes off the enemy. Finally, she helps Shiryū reach the last God Warrior and ends up protecting Seiya with her body from Siegfried's powerful attack.
Holy War Against Poseidon[]
Shaina has a very important mission: to bring the Libra Gold Cloth, under Dohko's orders, to the Underwater Sanctuary so that the Bronze Saints can destroy the enormous Pillars supporting the seven seas. She entrusts this mission to Kiki while preparing to fight Thetis, whom she defeats without major problems. Shaina then heads to Poseidon's Temple, believing that all the other Saints had been defeated and she was the only one left standing during the war, arriving before Poseidon himself. Shaina attacks him, but her power is nothing compared to that of a God, and Poseidon stops her with just a glance. She attacks him a second time with her Thunder Claws, but Poseidon counterattacks with psychic power, and Shaina is defeated without even touching Poseidon.
Finally, she protects Seiya from the Sagittarius Gold Arrow, which was returned by the God when Pegasus tried to strike him with it.
Holy War Against Hades[]
She is tasked with guarding the Sanctuary, with Jabu, Nachi, and Ichi under her command. She then gives the order to burn the Saints' Cemetery to prevent them from being revived by Hades and attacking the Sanctuary itself.
Later, she sees an eclipse occur, which Marin tells her is caused by Hades's will, and Kiki confirms that the eclipse is visible worldwide. Shortly after, they see the Gold Cloths of the deceased Gold Saints go to Hell to assist the Knights fighting there.
Later, Marin and Kiki bring Seika, Seiya's missing sister, to the Sanctuary, so that when Seiya returns, he can reunite with her. Finally, she is wounded after protecting Seika, Seiya's sister, with her body at the moment Thanatos, God of Death, tried to kill her to continue tormenting Pegasus.
Next Dimension[]
Shaina offers to protect Seiya along with Marin, so Hyoga can join Athena and the others in the past. This leaves two Silver Saints to protect Seiya versus an Angel. Her armor appears to have been repaired from the damage it sustained in the Hades saga.
Shaina finds herself caring for Seiya when suddenly she approaches him, raising her claws with the intention of attacking. Then Marin arrives, and Shaina stops her attack, deciding to leave, arguing that she feels unwell. She then reaches a spot between the Temples of Scorpio and Sagittarius, where she begins to search through the rubble. Marin arrives just as Shaina discovers an emblem of the Cursed Temple of Ophiuchus within the debris. A tormented Shaina tells Marin that the end of the Earth is near.
After this, Shaina, in a trance-like state, attacks Marin. After a brief confrontation, Marin knocks Shaina unconscious with a blow to the stomach.
Start of the Heaven Chapter[]
Shaina is tasked with guarding the Sanctuary, having Jabu and Ichi under her command. Her first mission is to eliminate Seiya, as the Sanctuary now belongs to Artemis. Because of this, she has a brief confrontation with Pegasus, whom she seemingly defeats with her claws. However, her intention was to help him recover his Armor, which was at the bottom of a cliff.
First War Against Mars[]
Shaina Protected Athena from Mars
During the first holy war against Mars, he invaded Earth accompanied by his Martians, where he clashed with Athena's Saints, and Shaina participated. However, the battle was halted by the fall of a meteor that struck the Earth, fusing with the Cloths and granting them the power of the elements. Not only the Saints gained this power, but the Martians also assimilated it. Subsequently, Mars abandoned the battlefield with Aria.
In the end, Aria decides to help Shaina for the good of the world and asks Eden to stop his own father, Mars. This enrages Eden, who then accuses Shaina and Kōga of turning Aria against him. Furious, Eden pursues Shaina and Aria.
Kōga decides to distract Eden, who falls further into despair and rage, while Aria and Shaina destroy the lightning reactor and obtain the lightning crystal. An earthquake begins, and everyone is trapped by a huge wave of dark cosmos except for Shaina, who watches as everyone disappears into the dark cosmos.
Holy War Against Pallas[]
Encounter with Subaru[]
Shaina reappears, standing guard at the Sanctuary by Athena's orders. She encounters Kōga and Subaru. After speaking with Kōga about his new armor, Kōga and Subaru prepare to pass, but Subaru is stopped by Shaina, who states that only Knights can pass. Subaru explains that he is a Steel Saint, and they exchange a few blows. Shaina then notices a strange Cosmos emanating from Subaru. Afterward, Kōga and Subaru leave the area.
Declaration of War[]
Shaina is one of the Saints who were present at the assembly called for by Athena in the Sanctuary.
Kiki's Battle[]
Shaina appears in Pallas Belda, protecting the refuge where wounded Saints were recovering and where Kiki was repairing the Cloths. After seeing Kiki repair the Hydra Cloth and witnessing Ichi's enthusiasm to fight, Shaina tells Kiki that Mū would surely be proud of him. When Dione and a large group of Pallasite Soldiers appear to defeat Kiki and anyone in their way, Shaina and the other Saints confront the threat. Ban defeats several Pallasite Soldiers, however, the battle is interrupted by Kiki, who proposes a one-on-one combat to Dione. Ban and the others witness the Gold Saint's victory over the Second-Class Pallasite. After this, they decide to continue advancing while Shaina remains on guard to protect the wounded Saints and allow Kiki to continue repairing the Cloths.
Battle at Pallas Castle[]
Later, when Athena and the Saints are about to enter Pallas Castle, Shaina and her comrades arrive on the battlefield to stop the Pallasite Soldiers and prevent them from hindering the Saints and the goddess.
While Athena, the Legendary Saints, the Gold Saints, and Kōga's group continue their path through Pallas Castle, Shaina, her comrades, and now joined by young Raki, continue fighting to prevent the Pallasite Soldiers from entering the castle. When Shiryū, Kiki, and Fudō are forced to use the Athena Exclamation against Hyperion, Shaina and her comrades feel the immense Cosmos produced by the clash between the forbidden technique and the attack of the First-Class Pallasite.
When Saturn stops the time of all humans, Shaina is seen alongside Ichi, as well as her comrades like Geki, Ban, Nachi, and the other Saints. Shaina is not affected by Saturn's attack.
Shaina continues to confront and defeat several Pallasite Soldiers, becoming a bit exhausted. Ichi extends his hand, offering help and asking if she's alright. The Silver Saint replies that he shouldn't worry, as if they don't protect the Earth, she wouldn't be able to face Kōga's group again. Following this, Shaina, Ichi, Geki, Raki, and other Saints look to the sky where Kōga and Seiya's group head towards Saturn's Castle.
After the defeat of the God of Time, Saturn, at the hands of the Pegasus Saint, Shaina's time and that of the others return to normal.
Abilities[]
- Based Physical Strength: A Saint is able to destroy an object on an atomic scale, his fist was capable of splitting the sky and his kick was able to cracking the ground. As one of the 24 Silver Saints, even the weakest Silver Saint was classified as twice as strong as almost all ordinary Bronze Saints and even five times stronger based on fighting ability. But, almost all of the Silver Saints were weaker than the Gold Saints.
- Movement Speed: A Silver Saint is able to move at the speed of light, in this case, as a Silver Saint, his speed is usually between Mach 2 and Mach 5. Similarly, these abilities allow her to dodge or block opponents' attacks, as shown with Seiya's Pegasus Ryūsei Ken or Andromeda's chain.
- Physical Durability & Endurance: a saint is actually a true soldier who trains hard and is able to fight for a long time, but in this case several Silver Saints were able to be defeated easily with one powerful attack when Cosmo was burned.
- Cosmo Manipulation: Cosmo is the Source energy of life and the Source Energy of the Universe itself where this energy can be absorbed by the saint's body while they're burning their Cosmo, the Cosmo is considered as a miniature of Big Bang that exists in every living object, or the big explosion that created the universe. Every Saint has a Cosmo within them, which they can burn to enhance their Special Techniques or Powerful blows while they are Fighting.
- Enhanced Senses: 6th Sense - Intuition (意識, Yishiki) is a feeling that represents the power of the saints of Athena, and is inherent in all people who can perceive their own cosmos and/or the cosmos of others. Utility is essentially what differentiates a warrior who has risen from the universe from an ordinary warrior, as things like sensing and using cosmo energy, moving at superhuman speeds, and predicting movements. Additionally, the sixth sense can replace the loss of the previous 5 during a fight.
- In the spin-off Saint Seiya Ω, she can control electricity thanks to her mastery of the Thunder Attribute.
Equipment[]
Mask : This Item a little bit can protect the users from poison Gas.
Ophiuchus Silver Cloth
Ophiuchus Silver Cloth : is the cloth of the Saint Shaina in Saint Seiya and Saint Seiya: Next Dimension, and an unknown Saint in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas. It is of the second class of the cloths that Athena's Saints wield, the Silver Cloths. In Next Dimension on Eighteenth Century the thirteenth Gold Saints wear the Ophiuchus Gold Cloth.
Ophiuchus Stone Cloth
Ophiuchus Stone Cloth : The Ophiuchus Cloth's change into a cloth stone added protection to it, removing all the gaps from the previous incarnation. The tiara now resembles a snake's head and the right arm has a violet snake with red eyes wound around it.
Techniques[]
Thunder Claw
Thunder Claw (サンダークロウ, Sandā Kurou): It is the only known technique of Ophiuchus Shaina. She raises her arm (like a cobra raising its head), ignites her Cosmos, and creates an attack with her extended hand and fingers that simultaneously accumulates sharp claw strikes, which produce wounds and true lightning bolts with included electrical charges of 10,000 volts, generated by her Cosmos, that pierce the adversary's body like stings and shatter everything in their path.
Notes[]
- In the Saint Seiya official encyclopedia, Shaina appears as Seiya's main love interest along with Saori, it’s stated that Shaina has a 70% chance of being in a romantic relationship with Seiya.
- Seiya and Shaina's voice actors, Tōru Furuya and Mami Koyama, were married, but have been divorced since 1983. Their separation however was amicable, and the two still work together frequently.
- In the Latin dub of the anime, her name was wrongly translated as Sheena or Shina, a thing later corrected in the Hades saga.
- She is the only Silver Saint who fought against a god without the intervention of the Bronze Saints. Although she was reasonably defeated.
- Along with Marin, Shaina is the first Silver Saint Masami Kurumada introduced in his manga, although neither Shaina nor Marin revealed their rank until after the introduction of Lizard Misty.
Gallery[]
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References[]
Saint Seiya manga vols.1, 7, 14 to 18, by Masami Kurumada
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