Saint Seiya Online

Saint Seiya Online is an MMORPG released in 2013 for PC.

Characters
List of Characters in Saint Seiya Online

Production
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. In 2007, [Sega Japan hired Masamichi Amano to compose and orchestrate the game's 65-piece music score. The recording took place at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Los Angeles county, in early November, 2007. Dan Goldwasser of scoringsessions.com said that "Amano's music contains strong and bold themes, with a powerful energy that conveys heavy dramatic and upbeat action." SSOnline Prod 03.png 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. It was also revealed that the games was to be released in August 2009 by SEGA Japan. SSOnline Prod 04.png 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!".

The game was however delayed due to unknown circumstances. 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. Perfect World was to develop Saint Seiya Online and operated from mainland China and Taiwan. 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. The game was officially unveiled during the Chinajoy convention in 2011 at Shanghai New International Expo Center. Character redesigns for the main five Bronze Saints and the twelve Gold Saints were revealed on August 17, 2012. Beta testing started January 22, 2013. On March 18, 2013, new areas such as Eastern Siberia and Atlantis were made accessible and the level cap was raised to 80. The areas "Hades City" and "Fairy Island" were made accessible on April 22, 2013 along with raising the level cap to 100. Saint Seiya Online opens for all players on May 16, 2013.

Expansion 1:

Expansion 2: Movement of God

Marketing
The first game trailer was shown during the Chinajoy convention in 2011 at Shanghai New International Expo Center. In commemoration of Saint Seiya´s 25th anniversary, music was performed and a cake was cut on stage. Cosplayers of the twelve Gold Saints was present on stage while lotteries were held for goodies. Attendees could win a bag in the shape of a Gold Cloth box with either Sagittarius or Virgo motives. Athena¨s Cloth was made in full scale for the event and was worn by a cosplayer.