Saint Seiya
Saint Seiya is about boys in magical armor called saints who run around for the goddess Athena. There's lots of fighting, and even if a character is merely spanked, his/her skin will squirt out half a liter of blood.
They call their armor "Cloths" and generally refuse to refer to them as anything else. Cloths made out of softer metal are the strongest.
Saints fight with an energy called their Cosmo, which is like chi, only better. One's Cosmo is from the power of little tiny solar systems within one's body.
Saint Seiya isn't just popular for it's wacky 80's anime styled bishounen, it's more so for the magical body armor modeled after constellations.
Expensive figurines and model kits are still being made and collected to this day, but what else can you expect from Japanese consumerism?
Neroman was all like
- how come the pieces of metal are called cloths?
And some other guy was all like
- It's sort of a religious religious.
- The term "Saint" is used to describe the assorted warriors because they all (kinda) faithfully follow a goddess. Though they in some cases have their own religion (Seiya's sort-of girlfriend works at a generically-Christian mission, and several Saints are Bhuddists) they all believe in Athena (The extent to which power= actual divinity is never really gone in to, so let's leave that for now).
- The armours of the assorted gods nearly all refer to an aspect of religious vestments (And also perhaps, the term "Men of the cloth" in reference to priests)
- The Saints of Athena, Eris and Phoebus Abel (a sort of Apollo analogue, but not Apollo) wear Cloths (Abel's are referred to as Corona Saints)
- Odin's God-Warriors wear Robes
- Hades Spectres wear Surplices
- Just to confuse matters, Poseidon's Mariners wear Scales, which has nothing to do with vestments.
And NeroMan was all
- Now I know!
