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Recently, for the audience who like the "Saint Seiya" series of works, it is nothing more than a great joy, because the Saint Seiya Orthodox sequel "Saint Seiya NEXT DIMENSION Pluto Myth" (referred to as "Pluto Myth ND") that has been serialized for nearly 15 years and 3 years later has finally ushered in an update again, and the plot content is extremely informative, not in vain The Saint fans have been waiting for many years.
"Pluto Myth ND" has been updated 3 episodes since its re-revision, and in the latest 99-episode plot, the main attraction is the appearance of a girl named "Sasha", which also echoes the title of "Sasha" in 99 episodes. However, the deeply familiar name of "Sasha" reminds the audience of another Saint Seiya myth, Pluto Myth LC.
We know that the "Sasha" character in the LC is set to be the reincarnation of the goddess Athena in this era, but because ND is currently updated by nearly 100 words, the audience has not yet witnessed the Athena of the ND era in the plot, so the girl character named "Sasha" in the ND inevitably makes people guess that she is the reincarnation of the contemporary Athena.
However, this time, in addition to the role of "Sasha" to make the audience interested, the portrayal of her appearance by the author Masami Cheda has also become the audience's "target".
01 Is the "Sasha" character that appears in ND the same as LC, the reincarnation of the goddess Athena?
As we all know, as the Saint Seiya series ND and LC depicting SS's last holy war with the underworld, although the time of serialization in Japan's Weekly Shonen Charmion is similar, ND, as the original author of Saint Seiya, Tsuda, still has priority over LC to start serialization.
Therefore, according to the reasoning, in the early human and worldview structure, ND should provide a template for the LC initially, that is, Teshiro Kishiori began to paint the LC after receiving the official authorization of the Saint Seiya, so that the characters and identities of the protagonists such as Tenma, Aaron and Sasha were similar in the first two works.
So, could this "Sasha" character who appeared in ND become the reincarnation of Athena, the goddess of the ND era, as in LC? In fact, this possibility is very large, although the current plot has not yet given us an answer, but we can get a preliminary conjecture through plot analysis.
First of all, Odysseus the Ophiuchus in the ND has told the Pope and the Water Mirror that the crossing of Athena in the SS era will inevitably cause Athena in the ND era to be unable to be reincarnated, but this effect cannot be studied at present. However, the teenage girl "Sasha", who appears in the latest episode 99, tells the audience that she has recently "felt unexplained tiredness in her body", so we can relate that this is the impact of SS Athena crossing on the contemporary Athena body.
Therefore, combined with the similarity between the above ND and LC characters, as well as the coincidence of the plot setting in the plot, it is very likely that the character girl "Sasha" who appears in ND is the goddess Athena.
02 ND's "Sasha" is Miho's past life? Chun Li's face? Changed the yarn of the hairstyle?
Since ND's "Sasha" character appearance was presented in front of the audience, netizens couldn't help but "complain" that this is not an attitude of "what role is that".
Some people say that she is the past life of the SS era Hoshiya's Aomei Takema Miho, because the pinch of upturned hair in the upper right corner is the most powerful proof! However, some people say that this "Sasha" is not the purple dragon's favorite - Chunli? Both the shape of the face and the style of the single braid are incomparably just right. Of course, some people say that she is the author who changed the hairstyle of the Johto yarn weaving in the SS era.
Miho on the left and ND Sasha on the right
However, in many discussions on the appearance of the "Sasha" character, the most pertinent of which is the opinion put forward by a netizen, that is, the shaping of Sasha's character is borrowed from the heroine Gao Lingju in the early Chetian manga work "King of Fighters Genesis 2".
The heroine of the King of Fighters, Gao Lingju
Indeed, in the King of Fighters manga, Kao LingJu has two hairstyles, one is like a yarn weaving, and the other is tied into a braid like ND Sasha, and the latter is so surprisingly consistent with Sasha in the appearance of his face that it is inevitable that the audience will recognize the similarities at a glance.
However, this time ND Sasha's image setting does make the audience feel a little extra surprise, although Chetian's drawing style inevitably makes the heroine of each manga work have a "Chetian face", but at least in ND, the author Chetian did not copy the LC Sa sofa type, although other characters such as Pegasus and Aaron have no difference. Then what kind of image will Sasha show when she grows up, only to wait for the plot to be revealed.
03 Maple Jun's Epilogue:
With the plot of "Pluto Myth ND" constantly updated, the call for Sasha as the reincarnation of the goddess Athena of the ND era is also getting higher and higher, in fact, according to speculation and analysis in many aspects, if there is no accident, Sasha's future awakening as the goddess Athena should not be much different.
Of course, Although The portrayal of the character of Chetian Masami is "the same as the good-looking skin bag", the painting style of "Chetian Face" has caused many viewers to have visual fatigue. But do the audience watch Chetian painting mainly to see the painting style? Isn't it mainly about feelings?
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