Saint Seiya

In the seemingly ordinary modern city of Tangqi, four high school students inherit the power of the ancient Four Symbols' sacred armor through a twist of fate: the steady Lin Sen, the unruly Xin Rui, the kindhearted Xia Yan, and the rational Jiang Yang. They become the modern guardians of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise. They think they've merely gained superpowers to punish evil and promote good, unaware that they have become entangled in a vast web of cause and effect spanning a thousand years.

Behind their powers lies the “unruly true nature” once stripped away by Sun Wukong, the Victorious Fighting Buddha. Beneath the city, an ancient demon king consumed by boundless hatred lies sealed away. Above the firmament, the cold and watchful “Order of the Heavenly Court” looms over all living things. And the human extremist group known as the “Tribunal” aims weapons of destruction at their home in the name of “purging anomalies.” As myths spill into reality, suspicion grows among the friends and the truth becomes ever more elusive. The teens are forced to find a balance between school life and supernatural battles.

From their bewildered awakening to being forced into battle, from internal discord to joining hands and rising anew, they finally understand: what they inherited was no divine blessing, but a spark with which to defy fate and protect the “true heart of being human.” Facing a three-pronged assault by the demon king, the Heavenly Court's judgment, and an invading alien god, the four teens stand alongside the awakened “Heart Ape” Wufeng and Feng Lixi, who carries on the will to mend the heavens. Together, their unyielding resolve proves that “My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.”

This is a youthful fantasy epic about growing up, bonds, and choices. In the end, the teens win a sky of their own. While protecting the ordinary comforts of everyday life, they also set out on a path of limitless possibility, one defined by humanity itself: the human path.