Saint Seiya, the series known in Poland as Knights of the Zodiac , could get an American version! The pilot episode has just been found and made available on YouTube!
Saint Seiya is a manga created by Masami Kurumada. An anime series was also based on it. The story was about orphans sent to various corners of the world to obtain Bronze Armor and become the protectors of Athena. In addition to the series, feature-length films have also been made, and the live-action version directed by Tomasz Bagiński is currently heading to cinemas. In Poland, the series was broadcast in the late 90s on the RTL 7 channel. It was a version with French dubbing and a Polish voice-over.
Saint Seiya enjoyed great popularity not only in Japan, France or Poland, but in general around the world. As it turns out, the US even wanted to create their own version of the famous anime. It was supposed to be called Guardians of the Cosmos , and there was even a pilot episode! In the end, production never materialized, and almost no one even knew that the first episode had already been shot. At least until now. YouTuber Ray Mona conducted research and obtained pilot material from the Library of Congress. She shared it on YouTube and now we can all finally see it.
Recall that the same YouTuber discovered and recovered the first episodes of the American version of Sailor Moon not so long ago . Now, as she says, looking for the first episodes of the live-action version of Saint Seiya (which ultimately also did not come to fruition), she accidentally came across the American cartoon Guardians of the Cosmos and obtained permission to recover and publish it.