Rainbow Flying Kick!!
 
I agree with some comments though; shame that Saint Seiya ended up sucking here.

…You people are forgetting one simple fact about Saint Seiya.
 
You can’t kill gods with guns. Do you seriously think Hades could be killed with a nuclear bomb? You kinda do need magical fisticuffs and Athena’s presence for that.
 
PS. Athena has specifically banned all weapons from her Saints, btw. The only weapons she accepts are those that come with the Libra Cloth. She is the goddess of warfare, sure, but Saint Seiya’s version of her is trying to PROTECT the world and all of humanity, not destroy it. Nuclear bombs would go completely against her moral guidelines. It isn’t up to the Saints to decide how they fight - their goddess has already decided for them.

Rainbow Dash despertando el Septimo sentido

@platypusmac  
pfffft even in the ‘realistic’ ones like Inugami/Ookami no Monshou or Tough that have no magic, no ninjutsu, no fancyschmancy called attacks n such, the heroes and main antagonist would be able to dominate a whole battalion by themselves. In Tough the kid trains by prying aircraft catapults out of walls (his dad straps him down with some crane cables, then tells him all he has to do to pass this one training test is to punch him. When the kid is close, dad pushes the button. After being dragged about sixty feet the kid manages to start winning, and fight against the pull, until he collapses the tunnel behind him Samson style. He also later has to pull open the doors of a car compacter with his bare hands.)  
In Ookami, the main bad guy is a supposedly normal yakuza delinquent high school kid, yet he’s the size of the disposal biker dudes in Fist of the North Star and he goes toe-to-toe with good guy supes and defeats them easily. Which gets even worse when he afflicts himself with lycanthropy by EATING A WEREWOLF (he’s essentially shota Akuma BEFORE this transformation, too)  
In both csses, the ‘explanation’ is the same. Training of any sort has no sensible limit

@EvilTon  
In fact, I don’t watch the genre.  
But it’s not just the physics.  
It’s the endless speeches, endless fights, guys that never die already and the overall tactical stupidity of the fights.

Sadly, as in all genres, “physics are subjective”.  
In Shonen Manga, the heroes defy the military and their pathetic weaponry; in less kid-enticing stories, it would take very little for the military to break out LESS pathetic weaponry, like, say, nerve gas.  
(as a matter of fact, in a manga they actually DID… the reason why it didn’t work was that, instead of a martial artist in gilded armor, they were facing Jabberwocky, an ARMS - that is, a nanomachine-enhanced half-monster boy that regenerates at lightning speed. They only managed to stun him for a little while, and then he got mad.)

@BigMax  
Are you honestly expecting a shonen hero anime to respect quantum physics? If you’re not willing to buy that much, I guess you should stop watching this genre altogether.

@EvilTon  
Pweh. Reaching the speed of light for a fist would mean destrying the whole Earth. Of course they can’t do that.  
They all live in a big asylum, actually.

RAIDER KICK!

Besides, if I remember correctly, I’ve seem their lowest class of Saints blowing up a couple of helicopters with their fists, why they so “delusionally” use in the modern era.

@platypusmac  
When, those couple filler episodes? They’re non-canon you know, they don’t count.

@EvilTon  
…‘cept for the fact that there is just a handful of Saints that can pull together a ranged attack.  
Why, in an episode they even showed Seiya’s weakness… it was FIGHTING IN WATER.  
Basically, his best shot is useless unless he’s got a running start.
 
…Someone get mr. Mundy’s a Saint armor, there’s a world to save.  
(for those who don’t know, Mundy is TF2’s Sniper)

@platypusmac  
You can’t solve any military operation with nukes. Where’s the fun in that?
 
@BigMax  
When your fists can potentially reach the speed of light, I say it’s more effective than any gun.

^ Hey, screw you guys, Saint Seiya is awesome.

Oh, now he really is gonna kill you, Dash.

@platypusmac  
To me, they all looked like a bunch of guys living in delusion.  
I mean, you live in the modern era, and you fight using your fists?!

perfect

Always thought it to be a bit moronic… I mean, you are basically SIX people fighting to save the whole world, and you worry about honor and fighting fair?  
I say screw it and kill the enemy in their sleep. Or, say, given that your sponsor is a multimillionaire, pay someone to do a carpet bombing. Nuclear, if needed.  
When the world is peaceful again, THEN you can talk about honor.

But I must admit that I watched it and liked some saints.

Same with me. Too bad this anime became such a giant fever here. My childhood was almost ruined by it.

That’s good, I’ve never liked Saint Seiya.