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- ↑ Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special - Gold Selection, pages 101-104, 1988, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- 1 2 Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special - Gold Selection, pages 99-112, 1988, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- ↑ Saint Seiya Anime Special 2, pages 107, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- ↑ http://mseiya01.iespana.es/Tomo05/03.jpg, http://animecdz.free.fr/galerie/img/83/SD32.jpg Compare images: the Black Three in the anime adaptation are identical to the unidentified Black Saints appearing in vol.5 of Kurumada's manga
- ↑ Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special - Gold Selection, pages 40-46, 1988, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- 1 2 "Takao Koyama".
- ↑ Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special - Gold Selection, pages 28-31, 1988, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- ↑ Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special 2, pages 127-128, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- ↑ Saint Seiya Encyclopedia, pages 64-79 (in Japanese)
- 1 2 Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special - Gold Selection, pages 125-127, 1988, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
- ↑ Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special 3 - Jump Gold Selection, page 105, 1989, by Shueisha (in Japanese)
- ↑ Shūkan Shōnen Jump's Saint Seiya Anime Special - Gold Selection 3, page 48, 1988, by Shueisha, (in Japanese)
