| Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - The Myth of Hades Gaiden | |
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| Author | Shiori Teshirogi |
| Publication date | 2011–2016 |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Related works | Saint Seiya: Next Dimension |
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| Preceded by Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - The Myth of Hades |
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After the conclusion of Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - The Myth of Hades, Shiori Teshirogi started a spin-off series titled Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - The Myth of Hades Gaiden (聖闘士星矢 The Lost Canvas 冥王神話 外伝, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas – Meiō Shinwa Gaiden) ("gaiden" is Japanese for "side story" or "spin-off"). This 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.
List of volumes[]
According to the information from the original 1986 manga, The Lost Canvas is set around 1745.
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| 1 | 8 | Pisces | 978-4-253-21644-9 | October 7, 2011 |
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Set after volume 13, around 5 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. Aries Shion already has his cloth. | ||||
| 2 | 4 | Scorpio | 978-4-253-21645-6 | December 8, 2011 |
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Set around 5 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. The goddess Athena is revealed at the end of the story. The "Extra Track" is a prologue. | ||||
| 3 | 5 | Aquarius | 978-4-253-21646-3 | February 8, 2012 |
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Set after volume 2, around 5 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. | ||||
| 4 | 6 | Cancer | 978-4-253-21647-0 | April 6, 2012 |
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Set after volume 2 and before volume 13, around 5 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. Athena is already revealed. | ||||
| 5 | 9 | Capricorn | 978-4-253-21648-7 | July 6, 2012 |
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Set before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. | ||||
| 6 | 15 | Libra | 978-4-253-21680-7 | December 7, 2012 |
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Set around 11 years after the main storyline of Lost Canvas. The "Extra Track" is a prologue set before the Holy War. | ||||
| 7 | 10 | Leo | 978-4-253-21681-4 | April 8, 2013 |
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Set around 3 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas, and 7 years after the death of Leo Ilias. The "Extra Track" is a prologue. | ||||
| 8 | 11 | Virgo | 978-4-253-21682-1 | August 8, 2013 |
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Set around 3 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. Athena is already revealed. The "Extra Track" is an epilogue. | ||||
| 9 | 14 | Taurus | 978-4-253-21683-8 | December 6, 2013 |
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Set around 6 years after the main storyline of Lost Canvas. Characters state that the Holy War ended 6 years before. A long flashback is set before that war. | ||||
| 10 | 3 | Sagittarius | 978-4-253-21684-5 | June 20, 2014 |
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Set around 16 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. Captions state that the prologue is set 17 years before the Holy War, and the main plot is set one year after the prologue. The "Extra Track" is an epilogue. | ||||
| 11 | 12 | Gemini I | 978-4-253-21685-2 | October 20, 2014 |
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Set around 2 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. The "Extra Track" is a prologue set just after volume 13. | ||||
| 12 | 13 | Gemini II | 978-4-253-21686-9 | January 8, 2015 |
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Set after volume 11, around 2 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. The "Extra Track" is an epilogue. | ||||
| 13 | 7 | Aries I | 978-4-253-21687-6 | June 8, 2015 |
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Set around 5 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. The story continues in volume 14. The "Extra Track" is a flashback. | ||||
| 14 | 16 | Aries II | 978-4-253-21688-3 | December 8, 2015 |
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Set after volume 13, around 5 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. The story timeskips to 14 years after the Holy War's end. The second "Extra Track" is an epilogue set about 240 years later. | ||||
| 15 | 1 | The Old Twins I | 978-4-253-21689-0 | March 8, 2016 |
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Set around 240 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. Captions state that the prologue is set 20 years before the Holy War, and the main plot is set 240 years before the prologue. | ||||
| 16 | 2 | The Old Twins II | 978-4-253-21702-6 | June 8, 2016 |
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Set after volume 15, around 240 years before the main storyline of Lost Canvas. | ||||
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.
- Scorpio' chapter 2 is set in Central America, in what 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 Scorpio' 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, Scorpio knows that Antares is a red giant, but that fact was discovered in the 20th 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-18th century, and an image of atoms shows them the way they are depicted since the 1930s only.