The United States wanted to Americanize the concept to get a piece of the pie in the 90s with a live action adaptation like the first Sailor Moon pilot but it wasn’t until the early 2003 after Pokemon and DBZ became huge hits and anime was popular in the America that they tried to bring this 80s shonen anime. How big was it? Well it was easily as big if not bigger than Dragon Ball Z, there had never been anything like it on television before and it dominated for many years until the show was over. Mexico, France, Spain among others all had a huge fad where it was renamed Knights of the Zodiac, of course in their respective languages. Saint Seiya is a franchise that was big in Japan but when it aired in Europe, Asia and Latin America it became a huge hit bigger than it ever was back in the land of the rising sun.
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