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Shaka does likes sweets but he hates chocolates. His top 10 of desserts and sweets are: 

About Shaka as a teacher 

I know it’s filler, but while playing Galaxy Spirits I remembered I that Shiva's thousand arms technique was like Shaka’s combo in the game. In Galaxy Spirits right before throwing Tenbu Horin, Shaka moves his arms making the illusions of having multiple arms like a Bodhisattva, (this is not the first time a game shows us Shaka doing this, it appeared for first time in a Pachinko short cutscene, I sadly was not able to find that video however) so I thought, Shiva’s technique is able to exists because it's a variation of what Shaka does with his arms.

In the japanese script, every single dialogue they have is about them being close and talking only about themselves and their feelings, just like in the manga, instead of going the Guilty-is-her-father route, which in the english script they do. Here’s the translation of their scenes. 

Esmeralda:一輝 Ikki

Ikki: エスメラルダ。。。？どうしてここに。。。？ Esmeralda? why are you here...?

Esmeralda: ごめんなさい　あなたが心配で　大来ちゃったの。。。 I'm sorry. I came because I'm worried about you...

Ikki: ここには危険だ　君のような優しい子がくるともうじゃない　。。。 It’s dangerous. A gentle girl like you shouldn’t be here...

Esmeralda: いいの私は大丈夫　休んで一輝 It’s ok, I’m fine. Rest, Ikki.

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Esmeralda:一輝　毎日こんなに傷だらけになって。。。　 Ikki, every day you're so full of wounds... こんな特訓はもうやめてお願いだから Please, I beg you to stop this intensive training. 私は心配でしかたないのよ。。。こんな地獄のような島で I can’t help worrying about you... in this hellish island このまま無理を続けたらあなた死んでしまうわ　 If you keep pushing yourself, you will die なぜそこまでするのか私に判からないわ  I don’t understand why you keep doing it.  一輝　どうして聖闘士になることにそうなにこだわるの？ Ikki, why are you so obsessed with becoming a saint?

Ikki: 生き別れた妹のためだ　あいついもどこかで聖闘士になる苦しい修行をしているはず。。。 It’s for my little sister from whom I’ve been separated. I'm sure she's somewhere doing some painful training to become a saint  too...

Esmeralda:一輝 Ikki

Ikki: だから何としても先生に認められなければ！　オレは絶対に聖闘士にならなきゃいけないんだ！ So, no matter what, I have to be recognized by my sensei !I absolutely have to become a Saint!

Esmeralda: でも私は　あなたを失いたくない！ But I don't want to lose you!

Ikki: ここには来ないほがいい It would be best if you wouldn’t come here.

Esmeralda: え？ What?

Ikki: おれに関わる君は危ない目にあう Your relationship with me draws dangerous eyes おれも君が心配だ I worry about you too.

Esmeralda: ありがとう Thank you

Ikki:その花は？ And that flower?

Esmeralda: 見つけたのかわいいでしょ？ I found it, isn’t it cute?

Ikki: 君の髪と同じ色だな It’s the same color of your hair.

Esmeralda: 一輝フェニックスの聖闘士になっても今のままでいてね Ikki, when you become the Phoenix Saint, stay just the way you are, ok?

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Ikki: エスメラルダ！ Esmeralda!

Esmeralda: 優しい一輝のままでいてね。。。 Keep being your gentle self Ikki, ok?

Ikki: 何を言うんだ！ What are you saying!

Esmeralda: 一輝 Ikki

Ikki: 死ぬな！エスメラルダ！ Don’t die! Esmeralda! Esmeralda: フェニックスとなって。。。　羽ばたいても。。。 Become the Phoenix... and flap your wings...

Ikki:そんな　そんな not this, no

Esmeralda: あなたなら。。。　できる I’m sure you can... do it

Ikki: フェニックス！フェニックス！ Esmeralda! Esmeralda!

Guilty: バカメこんなところにでしゃばってくるからだ Idiot. It happened because she came here.

Ikki: なぜだ　どうして彼女までま巻込んだ！ Why!? Why did you even involve her!  

Guilty: 何を言ってる？ What are you saying これはすべてお前の甘さが招いたことではないか！ This is all about your weakness (sweetness)! 一輝はっきり言ってやろう Let’s be clear その娘を殺したのは貴様だ！ The one who killed this girl was you! そもそもわしはこのときのためだけにその娘を貴様に近づけたのだ！ To begin with, I brought her close to you just for this moment.

------ So why do I believe this is a more effective change? First, it resembles more the manga dialogues, where Esmeralda was a slave in the island (here this is only implied in japanese with what Guilty reveals).   Second, like I’ve told before, it’s all about Ikki and Esmeralda’s relationship. We don’t lose time with exposition from her telling us about Guilty’s mask and the random guy that gave it to him. I mean, TO BE HONEST, I don’t care about Guilty, nor I care about trying to explain his evil doings giving him a sympathetic  background. Every time Esmelada talks in the english script (and all other translations) is trying to excuse why “her father changed”, or even when dying she’s still asking Ikki not to be like him. It seems the most important thing in her mind is always “her father”.  We lose precious time of her expressing her feelings for Ikki, her own worries and how much she believes in him, in order to give a backstory to the masked guy, that doesn’t need it. 

 (English synopsis at the end I cannot translate all this atm xD) Después de escuchar en loop la versión full ayer todo el día (porque la verdad es lo que más me gusta de la serie hasta ahora), puse mucha atención a la letra, tratando de satisfacer a mi Seiya x Saori shipper interior, entendiendo el punto de vista de la canción como Seiya hablando a Saori sobre no estar “listo para una relación”, y me di cuenta que no encajaba, para nada. Tanto Seiya como Saori no han tenido otros romances antes, y se ve que hay un puppy love ahí en ciernes, así que cautela por parte de ambos, tampoco se ve mucha.

Entonces, ¿qué tiene que ver esta canción, que es bonita, pero no parece tener ningún contexto con la historia? Una de dos, o la escogieron random porque el grupo ya la había compuesto y como les haría la versión nueva de Pegasus Fantasy, pues aprovecharían un pack de licencias con ellos mismos, ó 2, mi teoría:

Somebody New es una canción de amor escogida a dedo y dedicada a los fans antiguos de Saint Seiya.

Me dirán, ¿perdón, qué?

Pero si leen la letra con cuidado, atarán cabos: Quien canta la canción es el fan de Saint Seiya que ama la serie con locura, dirigiendo su escepticismo hacia esta y al nuevo proyecto de Netflix.

*It's not that I don't care the way that you do It's just my heart's not ready yet For somebody new Cause when my heart's not ready yet For something so soon, yeah It's just my heart's not ready yet For somebody new (no)

*No es que no me importe como a ti, es sólo que mi corazón no está listo para alguien nuevo *Porque mi corazón no está listo aún para algo tan de pronto, es sólo que mi corazón no está listo aún para alguien nuevo*

Este “alguien nuevo”, siendo Knights of the Zodiac. ¿No me creen todavía?

*If only this started when love was something new to me I'd never have questioned Rejecting what we could have been But when you've been broken Some wounds remain open That no one can heal

*Si tan solo esto hubiera empezado cuando el amor era algo nuevo para mi nunca hubiera cuestionado ni rechazado lo que pudimos haber tenido Pero cuando te han lastimado tanto, algunas heridas quedan abiertas que no se pueden sanar.

Este proyecto está dirigido a un público que no ha tenido contacto con la franquicia, así que no harán comparaciones con lo que se les ofrece. Sin embargo, nosotros los fans de toda la vida hemos aguantado una y otra vez los aporreos de proyectos fallidos que nos van desgastando y poniendo a prueba nuestro amor por la serie, así que ya no estamos tan abiertos a aceptar cosas nuevas porque nos han decepcionado antes.

*I wish that I could say those words You whispered so sweetly And maybe I'll regret this but I've gotta be honest 'Cause we made a promise, I won't break it now I wish I could hold you But how could I be so unfair to lead us to nowhere? We've both been down that road before And if it should end us please know that I'm helpless I've made up my mind

*Desearía poder decirte las palabras que me susurraste tan dulcemente y tal vez me arrepienta pero debo ser honesto porque tenemos una promesa y no la romperé ahora Desearía abrazarte pero ¿cómo podría ser tan injusto y llevar esto a ningún lado? Ya hemos pasado por esto antes, y si esto termina lo nuestro, por favor entiende que tengo las manos atadas Ya he tomado mi decisión.

Seguimos ahí esperanzados en que algo de Saint Seiya pueda por fin reenamorarnos. Que nos romancean diciendo que van a respetar la historia o que tendrán cuidado de tenernos en consideración con cada proyecto que anuncian, y que algún día tendremos una adaptación buena de Saint seiya, pero nos guardamos y nos quedamos a la defensiva porque no sabemos cómo nos van a traicionar de nuevo. Para algunos, esta podría ser la gota que derrama el vaso… y de parte de Toei lo saben si nos dedican esta canción.

Por el momento, creo que este es mi himno y me lo dejo en loop xD

Lets talk about headcanons. Lets talk about Varanasi, Sarnath.

It is a fact that Shaka was born in India and thanks to the Hades Arc, Chapter Sanctuary, episode 9, we have this flashback of Shaka having conversations with Buddha, the Ganges river is mentioned and we have an image of an Statue of standing Lord Buddha. With all this I couldn’t help but to picture the sacred city of Sarnath, located near Varanasi in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Sarnath is one of the four most important places for Buddhism, for it is here where The Buddha gave his first sermon. I guess the part I’m taking an stretch on the headcanon department versus what is canon, is that statue of Budha we saw on the flashback. Sarnath does have a giant statue of Buddha, in fact, it is only here where you can find the tallest statue of an standing Buddha in all of India. Let is be known that, even if it is India where Buddhism was born, you can’t find many Buddhism temples, in fact, Buddhist is one of the smallest religions in India, even smaller than Christianity, the problem is that, while this statue started its construction back in the 70′s, it was not only in 2011 that it was finished and inaugurated, and again, you don’t find many statues like this on India.

The city of Varanasi is algo a great factor to on this, it is considered one of the holiest city and it is as well one of the most populated ones, not only this but Varanasi is as well one of the most ancients cities, not only in India but in the entire world, it is a city of the city of spiritual light at the banks of the Ganges. It is in  Varanasi where you can find the Ghat, a revered funeral place for the Hindus. Despise all these, it is not only Hindus who travel to the Gnashes to be purified or to die. Many Buddhist locals and pilgrims from all over the world, for it was a placed where Budha lived and Buddha himself used the river as a metaphor for many lessons. When he wanted to give the idea of an incalculable amount of something he would say that it was as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges, when he wanted to emphasize the effectiveness of his teachings for attaining nirvana he used the inevitable, unstoppable eastward flow of the Ganges to illustrate this idea.  When the Buddha left Patna during his last journey, he had to cross the Ganges in order to get to Vesàli, and so, many pilgrims cross the river like he did.

The fandom sometimes refer to this form as a “centaur”, because you know, upper half of a man + lower half of a quadruped, it’s impossible to miss it.

However if you look closely at his design...

... you can see that the front legs have claws like those of a feline, while the hind legs are more hooved-like.

This means that Oneiros’ fused form isn’t like a “centaur” but more like a chimera, because it’s an amalgamate of different animals (souls) in a single body, just like the Greek mythological chimera.

However do you know what else is a * chimera * ?

On the onther hand, fem!Phantasos is underweight and both Pandoras (from TLC and the classic series) are almost underweight too (they are on the frontier between normal weight and underweight) D: