Ray Mona posted StarStorma 12 months after discovering the American-animated Guardians of the Cosmos
Final 12 months, misplaced media documentary YouTuber Ray Mona shared the complete factor pilot episode for an American animated adaptation of the Saint Seiya manga and animation. This 12 months she has uncovered the misplaced pilot episode by StarStorma proposed live-action adaptation of Saint Seiya. (This pilot was made thirty years earlier than final 12 months’s Knights of the zodiac film starring Mackenyu.)
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After a 12 months since discovering Guardians of the Cosmos in Half 2 of The Secret Tales of Saint Seiya… The notorious canceled live-action pilot episode of Saint Seiya often known as StarStorm has lastly been FOUND!
Yow will discover the total documentary within the thread🥰 pic.twitter.com/4EIxCMWPC5— Ray Mona (@TheRayMona) August 27, 2024
Mona has since uploaded the pilot to her YouTube channel, aside from her new documentary:
The complete pilot episode of StarStorm was posted to my channel individually from the documentary! You may test it out through the hyperlink within the thread!
P.S. The copy with out the watermark will even be added to this thread subsequent Tuesday. Maintain your eyes open! pic.twitter.com/GzXGIdOarS
— Ray Mona (@TheRayMona) August 29, 2024
Mona shared the total pilot episode for an American animated movie Saint Seiya adaptation in April 2023. The proposed cartoon, titled Guardians of the Cosmoswas conceived and demolished within the Nineteen Nineties. The documentary maker obtained the photographs from the Library of Congress. She had gotten permission from the previous Bandai America president Frank Ward to retrieve all paperwork associated to American live-action Sailor Moon TV present (colloquially identified on-line as Saban Moon after Energy Rangers producer Hello Saban). The Guardians of the Cosmos footage was bundled with the Sailor Moon paperwork.
The unique two-part documentary was initially about Ray Mona’s seek for the entire pilot of StarStorm. Till August, solely 20 seconds of footage from the pilot was made public. Like Saban Moonthe pilot was created by Energy Rangers producers Renaissance Atlantic.
After uncovering the Guardians of the Cosmos footage, the documentary maker shifted her focus to contextualizing it pilot episode. That is what she speculated StarStorm Components could have been included Guardians of the Cosmos for a possible hybrid live-action/animated present like Saban Moon.
Mona’s discoveries had been nice for the anime fandom. They not solely reveal a chunk of misplaced media, but in addition increase our understanding of the medium as a complete.
Sources: X/ from Ray MonaTweet account (hyperlink 2) and YouTube channel (hyperlink 2)
