In The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy praises the series' complex plot and felt that animation designers' Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno had worked 'magic' with both the anime series and the films. It would become the inspiration for future series, including several Gundam series such as Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato, Ronin Warriors, Wild Knights Gulkeeva, and Kurumada's later work B't X. It was considered one of the biggest anime phenomenons of the 1980s. However, Seiya also sacrifices himself by receiving one of Hades' attacks, and the Saints return to Earth with his body. In the final fight against Hades and his two followers, Hypnos and Thanatos, the Saints gain the strongest God Cloths and use them to aid Saori in defeating Hades. Hades then takes Saori to Elysium, and the five Bronze Saints follow them. Saori reaches Hades and expels his soul from Shun's body. In the Underworld, as the Saints fight Hades' Specters, Shun is possessed by Hades. Shion reveals that the revived Gold Saints' true intentions were of giving Saori her own Cloth, and gives it to Seiya's group before dying once again. This act is instead meant to directly send her to the Underworld to face Hades, and the Bronze Saints follow her. The remaining Gold Saints serving Athena are able to subdue the enemies, but Saori then commits suicide. The third and last arc follows how Hades, the Underworld god, is freed from his seal and revives the deceased Gold Saints and the Pope Aries Shion, and alongside some of his 108 Specters, sends them to the Sanctuary to kill Athena. Shortly afterwards, Saga, having come to his senses, commits suicide as a self-punishment. With help from his friends' Cosmos, Seiya is able to knock out Saga and use the shield from Athena's statue to heal Saori. Following several battles, Seiya gets to the Pope's temple and learns that he is the Gold Saint Gemini Saga, who in his madness killed the real Pope to obtain more power. To do so, they have to go through 12 temples, each one guarded by one Gold Saint (the most powerful Saints of Athena). Believing the Pope may be able to heal her, the Bronze Saints go to find him. Deciding to join forces with Saori, the Bronze Saints go to the Sanctuary to defeat the Pope, but upon their arrival, Saori is severely wounded by a gold arrow from a Silver Saint. The Sagittarius Gold Saint Aiolos saved Saori but was killed shortly afterwards and gave Saori to her adopted grandfather, Mitsumasa Kido. When they remain victorious, the Bronze Saints learn that Saori is Athena's reincarnation and that the Pope once tried to kill her as a baby. Upon Ikki's defeat, the Bronze Saints are attacked by the Silver Saints sent by the Sanctuary's Pope to eliminate them.
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