Saint Seiya Abridged

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

An abridged series of Saint Seiya. But in French, therefore using the french name of the show: Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque (knights of the zodiac), La Série Abrégée. It is also the first French abridged series, and does a pretty good job at that, on top of everything being done by only one guy. Coincidentally, the author had a few cross-overs with Joueur Du Grenier, who is pretty much a French Angry Video Game Nerd.

The series encompasses the Sanctuary saga, and spends one episode per house. All the jokes are based on Character Exaggeration, French wordplay and jabs towards the Macekre-esque French localization of the show.


Tropes used in Saint Seiya Abridged include:

Seiya: If you're so strong, tell me, who is the strongest between Lemmy and God?
Shaka: Oh, the answer is simple. *prepares attack* Me.

    • And later against Ikki:

Ikki: Who are you anyway, some kind of Warrior Monk like in Tomb Raider 2?
Shaka: No, just Buddha's reincarnation.

Ikki: Wow, I don't know what you're taking, but it's good.

  • A Worldwide Punomenon: Ripe of it. They're all in French, so they're pretty hard to translate correctly, but one of the easiest is:

Shiryu: Knight of the Cancer, you make me sick!
Cancer Deathmask: Oh, I never heard that one before.

Hyoga: Come on, we even brought a girl!
Shun: Oh, it's more complicated than that, you know... Even when I was a kid, when I watched Candy Candy, I...
Hyoga: Shun, I was talking about Saori.
Shun: ...I'm blushing, aren't I?

Aldebaran: I know your pricings, it's going to cost me the right horn to repair the left one.

  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Mu. But he has a gravelly voice and insists that he is a man right away. He lampshades it whith his first line :

Mu: Hi, I am Mu, the Aries saint. And despite my char design, I am a man.

    • And later:

Seiya: Thank you, Mu, you're a good man.
Mu: I'm especially a man.

Shun: *as Hyoga is thrown in a parallel dimension by the Gemini Saint* No! Hyoga, if you're gone, we won't have any female viewers anymore! Not that it bothers me. BUT STILL!

  • Finds himself on the opposite side of a Bottomless Pit separating him from the rest of the team*
  • wha wha horn*

Shiryu: I have the feeling it's going to be like this for the entire episode.

    • Against Shura of the Capricorn:

Shiryu: Now that I have broken your left arm, you cannot use your attack anymore!

Shiryu: ... Unless you use your right arm. Fuck.

Hyoga : I'm not the same as I once used to be... earlier this afternoon.

Shiryu: *while Seiya tries to call the Sagittarius cloth, thinking it will allow him to wear it while it's really pointing its arrow at him* No, Seiya, the OVAs are non-canon!
Hyoga and his speech about hope and friendship, lampshaded by Shiryu and Seiya as "the most terrifying attack of the Shounen Manga Hero"

Shaka: Do I at least have something to say about this? No, becau-

  • atomic explosion*

Milo: I'm not Tristan of the BEE HIVE, I'm Milo of the Scorpion!
Seiya: The German band?

  • Milo uses Scarlet Needle*
  • Opening credits*
  • Not What It Looks Like: Shiryû, when a picture of him sleeping next to Kiki pops up at the end of the first episode.

Shiryû: I Uh... This image is taken out of context!

Milo: Yes, I let you live so you can face thousands of horrors, endure a thousand of pains, see your loved ones die in front of you one by one and finally, die a horrible and painful death. Isn't it... Exciting?

  • Beat*

Hyoga: ...Sadist.
Milo (with an amused voice): *chuckle* Yeah, I know.

Shaka : Let's open the Transmogri... Transmag... Oh, screw it, the Six Realms !

Shun: Don't do that, Ikki, you're gonna blow up!
Shaka: Yeah, don't do that, Ikki, you're gonna blow up!
Ikki: That's the purpose!
Shaka: Oh, okay then. WHAT?!