Saint Seiya Time Odyssey is a French comics series by Jérome Alquié and Arnaud Dollen, adapted from Masami Kurumada's original manga. It uses the anime's design for the characters but the Clothes are from the manga. The story is canon to the manga and was approved by the author.
Chronos, the God of Time, wants to become the 13th Primordial God of Olympus, just like Hades, Poseidon, Athena and the others. To do this, he needs to build the Apocalypse Clock which will allow him to change the past, present and future as he wishes.
Cautious, the God of Time hides his tracks: he intervenes at different times in the saga (from before the Sanctuary to after Hades) so as not to attract the attention of the other gods. He is surrounded by an army of Leptas (Minor Saints) led by his powerful generals, the Saints of the Twelve Hours.
Thanks to these faithful and fierce warriors, Chronos is convinced to carry out his plan, but he did not count on the Saints of Athena!
- Volume 1 is about Ikki.
- Volume 2 is about Shun.
- Volume 3 will be about Hyoga.
- Volume 4 will be about Shiryu
- and Volume 5 will conclude the story with Seiya.
The authors stated that each Bronze Saint will have his Day in the Limelight in the story.
Volume 1 was first published in two parts in booklets respectively accompanying the 2022 September and November issues of Monthly Champion Red before Kana officially released the regular edition and the collector's edition of it on September 30, 2022.Volume 2 was released 22 October 2023 by Kana and in booklets respectively accompanying the 2023 September and November issues of Monthly Champion Red.
Saint Seiya Time Odyssey provides examples of:
- Adaptive Ability: The Phoenix Cloth, unsurprisingly, can regenerate in places it shouldn't even exist and adapt to harsh environments. Can absorb parts of the environment to adapt.
- Artifact of Doom: Chrono's Apocalypse Clock.
- Alas, Poor Villain: The comic does this to GUILTY of all people. He used to be Jorge, the warden of Death Queen Island. He was brainwashed by Saga and Deathmask. Saga used his Genrou Maou Ken to turn him into a sadistic monster.
- Always Someone Better: Easter to Aphrodite. In an interesting turn of event, the fact that Aphrodite was male was a deciding factor in him becoming the Pisces Gold Saint. But Easter was stronger, something Aiolos noticed when he came to take him to the Sanctuary.
- Big Bad: Chronos, the god of time.
- Cain and Abel: Aphrodite and Easter.
- Calling Your Attacks: Even the news guys do this.
- Cast from Hit Points: The Nebula Chain. The chain is linked to Shun's blood and regenerate with his blood like the Clothes can be repared from blood. And Shun's new Crimson Chains.
- Cosmic Chess Game: What Ikki's life turned out to be.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Drachme firsts send his Stigmas to deal with Seiya. The first one is destroyed in seconds by Seiya's meteors. Ikki does this to the sisters of fate once the Phoenix Cloth renegerates in Erebos. In much the same way, Mu deals easily with the Chronos soldiers who came to retreive the Andromeda Cloth.
- Everyone Is Related: Aphrodite's family is related to Pisces Cardinale.
- It's All About Me: Chronos, unsurprisingly too.
- Jerkass God: Zeus, unsurprisingly.
- Lady of War: The three fate sisters. Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.
- Living MacGuffin: Prometheus. Chronos needs him & Hephaistos to complete his Apocalypse Clock.
- MacGuffin: Shun's Andromeda Chains. They're the same keeping Prometheus chained. Since Chronos failed to destroy them, he needs to know their weakness and as such seeks the Andromeda Cloth. Also Shun's blood.
- Master of Threads: The three sisters of fate.
- Mighty Glacier: Ophialtes Thatanka
- Sadistic Choice: The sisters of fate give Ikki one, they can revive Esmeralda if Ikki accepts to die. Ikki refuses of course, saying Esmeralda would never agree to Ikki dying to revive her.
- Screw Destiny: This time, it's the villains' goal. Since Chronos saw Ikki as Hades' body in the future, the villains are doing everything they can to prevent this. Chronos fears Hades having such a strong body means the end of everything.
- Smug Snake: Drachme. Not so much once Seiya pummels him with his meteors.
- You Have Failed Me: Chronos is not happy his warriors attacked the Bronze Saints with Athena present. Now she can track their actions back to him and he's trying to get on Zeus' good side.
