Lost Canvas is epic I could end here my rewiew because it is very amazing. Saint Seiya epic to the very meaning of it. The stage is set 200 years before the original series and so it could be considered a prequel but you can watch the show without ever seen the original. Like the original the main character is the SaintCavaliere in Italian of Pegaus this time Tenma but like and much more than the original the side characters have a great role to aid the protagonist to fullfill his task. Altrought not reaching the perfection of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood where no minutes go wasted and with little rust in the fist episodes Lost Canvas has a good plot with pratucally no holes and the secondary characters as i said before are not wasted or under usedalso if you can feel sometimes the cuts from manga transposition. Being a prequel you could be fearful to see something like thousands of citations from the orginal serial and instead... Instead they are but gently inserted in the plot or show to the watchers that alredy known the story and the authorKurumada could draw like a child but his ability as storyteller is unmatched never throws an original anime reference without necessity or for the sake of the pubblic. This is how a prequel is made and Lucasart and Dinsy should learn from this next time they need to make a prequel. From artistic point of view i like the cloths a lot light and shades are wonderfully painted but probably details are inferiors than originalmasked by a better graphics. Action scenes are functionally and fun to see i like the stop scene when particularly epic. Not knowing much about animation techniques i must constate that the scenes are fluid and seem realistic. Only sometimes mass scenes are a little less definied and backgrounds a little dull. About chacters as i said no one is under used and this Athena is very better that originals one. Sasha unlike Saori is still a young girl but she doest need her saint to be saved at every episode. TenmaPegasus is still the main character but exactly as SeiyaPegasus he need the help of his friends to complete the work A note on italian traslation: i have like it but not in the first episodes where was a strange mix of english and italian term. if you Netflix italia wished to translare more adherently to Kurumadas terms you could simply translate them in italian.