Ah well, I love the fight scenes, the themes of friendship, justice, and self sacrifice, the Seiya and Saori romance subplot,
the different mythological and religious themes to it like Greek Mythology, Norse mythology, the Apple of Eden etc. the cloths, and the cosmo powers
Now for the the Saint Seiya things I don't really like, or feel could be better, are more team fights to showcase friendship and group effort more. I feel that even if Saori cannot fight as Athena, she should get more involved in the plot rather than having the saints saving her all the time because I feel that the "saving the world" theme would have more impact that way, and because Athena fights defensive warfare according to Greek Mythology. I wish the Athena Exclamation should have been explained more in how it works and why it was made. And Lastly I feel the final Battle against Hades could have been MUCH better than what we got, I was hoping for an epic last battle that would be a lot of emotional, to set the stage for ND. But other than that, there are very few problems I have with the series
By the way bud, if people complain about Aphrodite fighting with Roses, I don't see why people don't complain about Shun fighting with chains. In fact Saga does not fight hand to hand either, he uses buddhist themed meditation cosmo attacks. It does not make sense to me
Very good post I will answer your questions one by one, but before that I am going to tell you what and what not I like of Saint Seiya.
The things that I like in SS is the anime, easy and simple. The first thing that I have in SS without it probably I Should have not known anime or manga in general. The sounds, the scenes, the music, when the characters are in move oh man that is amazing. I know Toei take some liberties, but I approve them most of the time. I know the manga is the master piece of SS and like one fan in You tube said respect the manga for being the main core.
What thing I don't like in SS? I was asking myself that, but really I didn't know what until I listen something in You tube in Universo Saint Seiya, I heard that person and well I was I agree with him. I don't like the criticism of the fandom I mean the fandom in SS is being toxic. We know that right now in the series are not so good, but come on you can say you don't like it, but flame the series is not correct and more I don't like is the fanboys of Lost Canvas that still waiting for the anime, many think that LC better than the classic. They exploded with the news of Sho .
Hey bud where do you hear that they don't like Aphrodite's attack is with roses? I mean I didn't know that. In fact many fans were complementing that in Omega the Gold Saint of Pisces didn't have roses XD.