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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1103262" data-attributes="member: 151">The original series ran in Japan during the mid-80s.  Like Dragonball Z, it's a fighting manga that became an anime.  Also like DBZ, it was prone to catching up with the manga, and having to pad (it's single greatest weakness).   The plot, which was ham-fisted in the travesty of a translation that I saw Saturday night on Cartoon Network, is essentially this:  in the near future, in a world that has suffered sudden outbreaks of war across the globe, a rich Japanese girl sponsors a martial arts tournament.  But the only people allowed to enter are those martial artists who've managed to discover and win a Bronze 'cloth', or suit of magical armor.  The victor of the tournament will receive one of the powerful twelve Gold 'cloths', specifically Sagitarrius.  Each Gold Cloth is representative of one of the twelve Greek zodiac signs.   Without going into loads of detail, the meta-plot is that the girl is really Athena (although this isn't known at the beginning of the series, contrary to the US version's take).  She directly opposes the return of Ares, god of war, who is hell-bent on engulfing the world in battle.  He possesses the master of the greek training grounds, and subjugates or tricks the other possessors of the Gold Cloths. The five main heroes must then fight their way past the 11 other gold warriors to defeat Ares and save Athena.  It gets a little more involved than that, obviously, but that's the main plot.  The changes made to the US version drove me NUTS.</blockquote>

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