Ah, the (arguably) most infamous Saint Seiya spin-off ever…
Let me introduce you to Soul of Gold.
I watched Soul of Gold through in one sitting, because it was July of 2017 and I had a horrible cold. Since I wasn’t going anywhere I picked a new show at random and began to watch.
Soul of Gold is about the twelve gold saints of Athena who have been resurrected in Asgard by the will of Odin to save the country from destruction caused by the malicious tree Yggdrasil.
Make sense?
It didn’t to me either.
But with the power of cold medicine and the fact that I didn’t want to get up, I ignored the strange synopsis and pressed on despite all warning signs.
Since I had already seen the original Saint Seiya series, I knew the characters and their abilities already. The abilities were the same, but the characters… not so much.
Aiolia (the main SOG goldie) was fine. He was impulsive, ridiculous, exhausted and a little OP. He even had the trade-mark KittyStare™ that he patented back in the 80’s. Everything was normal, not amazing, but acceptable.
The same went for the majority of the other Saints who, despite leaving Aiolia to do the majority of the leg-work, maintained some semblance of normalcy.
Except for Aquarius….
OOC to the max. Our cold and refined Aquarius Saint was nearly in tears half the time and randomly decided to side with the evil tree people.
I guess they were making room for the new female lead?
Lyfia, (said female lead) is the one who finds Aiolia (he’s in jail because apparently walking around looking for help in a frozen tundra is illegal if you’re Greek) and starts the shows plot off. She tells our confused Leo where he is and what’s going on; all with the thought, “this guy looks like he can help me in my fight for justice!” She gets a little more than she bargained for, but things start out pretty well for her; all things considered.
So with her new bishie in tow, she happily takes off and proceeds to receive no further character development.
Also (as shown in the Aiolia jailbreak gifs above) the goldies are amazingly strong in comparison to EVERYONE in Asgard, warriors included. So half-way through the first episode, the writers realized that the fights are boring and tossed in “oh the tree is weakening them” as a random afterthought.
From then on, the writers would forget about the tree, only to suddenly remember it in the middle of a fight and the goldies would randomly start losing again.
Also, as the show progresses, the twelve gold saints started slowly dying off as the bad guys started using their bodies like miracle-grow for the evil tree.
They are literally feeding the tree.
By the end of the show and one Odin/friendship-powered upgrade later, they have defeated Loki and saved Asgard. The gold saints return to being dead and Lyfia is left mooning after her golden harem as touchingly as possible.
I’m not even going to touch on the animation, sometimes it looked like this: 
but most of the time it was this:
Soul of Gold is one star.
It is so bad it’s almost impressive, and definitely a black spot on my anime watching career. I don’t regret watching it, due to the amusement I got as a Saint Seiya fan, but as a show on its own PLEASE do yourself a favor and try something else.
If you’re looking for reaction gifs though, Soul of Gold has some fantastic options:
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