Is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa (Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas) is a OVA (home-video release) from Spring 2009 by Tms Entertainment Co., Ltd.: 13 episodes, about 5.2 hours in total, finished, 7.82/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 13
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 5.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Tms Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.82/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, mythology, drama, fantasy, gore, historical, magic, martial arts, superpowers, sci-fi, shounen, supernatural, tragedy, urban fantasy, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: I Cavalieri dello Zodiaco: The Lost Canvas; I Cavalieri dello Zodiaco - The Lost Canvas; Saint Seiya: A Tela Perdida.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa?
- About 5.2 hours for all 13 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa have?
- 13 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa finished?
- Yes, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa good for a group?
- Yes. Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa listed?
- Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa is on AniList (id 6171) and MyAnimeList (id 6171); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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