[houkoholic]

Ep12 was not a bad episode

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Some good fights in this episode, it's getting more physical. Made sense that it took Shun to weaken the Silver saint and then with the combined effort of Ryuhou and Kouga to finish him off, nice team work effort.

So apparently the first time Mars appeared Seiya and co almost defeated him until a giant meteorite came crashing down which according to Shun seems to have been attracted by the cosmo of the fight. The meteorite brought in the new power which led to the new cloth and the elemental powers, but not only to the saints but to Mars too and the rematch didn't go so well leading to Seiya being sucked into darkness (different dimension possibly?) and Shun also got infected with the black cosmic cancer which prevents him from burning his cosmo and thus he can't fight. So I guess they are going to keep along with this black cosmic cancer line which took out all the remaining 4 old bronze saints or something since both Shiryu and Shun seems to be taken out by the same thing more or less.

Also Kamiya's cry of Nebula Chain was surprisingly close to the original, was good stuff.