Since then, numerous anime and manga were released, such as Saint Seiya Next Dimension and Saint Seiya Lost Canvas in 2006, originally intended to be equally valid story-lines published simultaneously, yet since 2009 Next Dimension has been called the canonical continuation of Saint Seiya. In the next year, the Saint Seiya Hades OVAs began to be published, alongside the Light Novel Saint Seiya Gigantomachia, telling a story that happened in between the Poseidon and Hades arcs, and the manga Saint Seiya Episode G, a prequel focused on the Gold Saints, which Kurumada supervised, approved and officially confirmed canon.
In 2001, the Saint Seiya Taizen Encyclopedia came to be, bundled alongside the Hypermyth, and with the two many details of the series's mythology became explained (Note: There was already a Hypermyth in 1990, but it was not written by, nor very supervised by Kurumada, and many of it's details are removed in it's 2001 update, making it clear what is the canonical version). This changed when both Masami Kurumada and Toei Animation decided to revive the series, and since them Saint Seiya has been an ever-growing, ever expanded franchise.
When the original Manga / Anime came to an end, the series found itself in limbo, and from 1991 to 2001, no new material came of it. Interestingly enough, instead of merely following the manga and adding filler episodes from time to time, the anime took great liberties with the source material, altering details of backstories, adding / changing characters, creating entire new story arcs, and usually tying all new "filler" material to the original manga plot. The series quickly became a hit, and Toei Animation soon followed with an Anime adaptation in the same year. Along the series, they face off in various Holy Wars against Deities who wish to claim Athena's earth as their own, always against increasingly stronger opponents. It told the story of the Saints, a group of powerful warriors who are sworn to fight as the army of the Goddess Athena.
Athena¨s Cloth was made in full scale for the event and was worn by a cosplayer.Saint Seiya/Knights Of The Zodiac is a manga by Masami Kurumada that ran from 1986 to 1991. Attendees could win a bag in the shape of a Gold Cloth box with either Sagittarius or Virgo motives. Cosplayers of the twelve Gold Saints was present on stage while lotteries were held for goodies. In commemoration of Saint Seiya´s 25th anniversary, music was performed and a cake was cut on stage. The first game trailer was shown during the Chinajoy convention in 2011 at Shanghai New International Expo Center. Saint Seiya Online opens for all players on May 16, 2013. The areas "Hades City" and "Fairy Island" were made accessible on Apalong with raising the level cap to 100. On March 18, 2013, new areas such as Eastern Siberia and Atlantis were made accessible and the level cap was raised to 80. Character redesigns for the main five Bronze Saints and the twelve Gold Saints were revealed on August 17, 2012. The game was officially unveiled during the Chinajoy convention in 2011 at Shanghai New International Expo Center. Masami Kurumada would still supervise the production for the developer´s research and development process so that the game stayed true to the classic story. Perfect World was to develop Saint Seiya Online and operated from mainland China and Taiwan. On July 25, 2011, the China based game developer Perfect World announced that it and its associated "Beijing Perfect World Network Technology Co., Ltd had obtained the rights to Saint Seiya Online from Sega Japan. The game was however delayed due to unknown circumstances. The first image from the game was posted by Kurumada on his blog on December 26, 2012, with the caption "星矢の新企画のクオリティが凄いので、ちょっとだけ見せちゃうぜ!The quality of Seiya's new project is amazing, so I'll show you a little!". It was also revealed that the games was to be released in August 2009 by SEGA Japan. Kurumada posted about the music production on his blog on November 7, 2007, and also posted an image of the game´s production team in Shanghai on December 19, 2007.
Dan Goldwasser of said that "Amano's music contains strong and bold themes, with a powerful energy that conveys heavy dramatic and upbeat action." The recording took place at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Los Angeles county, in early November, 2007. In 2007, [Sega Japan hired Masamichi Amano to compose and orchestrate the game's 65-piece music score. Saint Seiya Online was first revealed to be in production, when Masami Kurumada posted an image on his blog on July 14th 2006, which showed the cover of one of the game´s documents. List of Characters in Saint Seiya Online Gameplay Production