Jan

***Jan*** is the Saint of Tateza (shield), his class have only been confirmed with a question mark as Silver. Jan appeared in the first Saint Seiya movie called "Jashin Eris" were he was part of a group of revived Saints called "Ghost Five".

## Background

Jan is a Saint that apparently died in vain; this may well have been caused by his straightforward and jump-into-action personality.

## Story

Since the age of myths, Eris, the Goddess of Discord had been imprisoned into a Golden Apple and sentenced to remain with the apple inside the Lepreus meteor shower. Sometime in the late 1980's, the Goddess of Discord had grown tired of her imprisonment in the apple. When the meteor swarm appeared over the Earth once more, she stole the wish of a young girl called Eri, and used her body to manifest herself. But in order to restore herself completely she needed the life force of a goddess, Athena in this case. To her aid she needed warriors that would fight for her, and she thought it would be ironic to use former dead Saints that felt resentment towards Athena.

As Jan was restless in his grave and resented the goddess he had fought for, he gladly accepted Eris' offer to be revived. His former body had long decayed and as such he was given a new body. The old Saint travelled to the restored temple of Eris where he was also given a Ghost version of his old Tateza Silver Cloth. At the temple he was introduced to four other Saints that had been revived. Sagitta Maya, Southern Cross Christ, Lyra Orpheus and Orion Jäger. Together they presented themselves to Eris, their new Goddess. Eris had managed to capture Athena and was already on her way to drain her life force. Athena was surprised to see her former warriors standing before her in service of Eris.

After sending an invitation to the current Saints, Eris ordered Jan and the others to to intercept and kill them. Jan had heard the Dragon Saint would be among them, who wielded the strongest shield and fist of the Saints. Jan was the Saint of the shield constellation and wielded a large shield, so he thought it would be interesting to see who wielded the strongest shield. He found Dragon Shiryu wandering near a waterfall fountain. He jumped out above the Saint while shouting to him that they would decide who wielded the strongest shield. With his Bonecrush Screw technique he destroyed the dragon shield with ease and injured Shiryu severely. He thought the Saint was pathetic and started to walk away from him, but was pleasantly surprised when he rose up again. The Dragon Saint pushed everything he had into a final attack, but Jan underestimated him and used his regular attack. As they clashed the power of Shiryu's attack sent him flying to his death.

## Musical

Jan made an appearance in live-action in the Saint Seiya Super musical in 2011. He is played by Hayashino Takeshi.

## Concept & Creation

With the success of the Saint Seiya franchise in both anime & manga form, a movie was proposed by Toei. Masami Kurumada participated in the production and after 3 months he contributed with the new Saints. Jan is named after Jan Sobieski III who the Scutum constellation was made in honor of. As the Lyra & Sagitta Cloths was created by Kurumada for the movie and later appeared in the original story, many assume the Tateza Cloth will too. Tateza Jan was originally named Shield Jan, but for some reason "Shield" was replaced with the Japanese word for it, most likely to decrease any confusion.

## Appearances

* *Saint Seiya* – "Saint Seiya: Evil Goddess Eris"

## References

1. ↑ Time: 26:50/Ikki:You mean that your bones were revived from your grave?/Orpheus: No, not our bones. Eris called us back and gave us new bodies.
2. ↑  Film Comic 08.jpg
3. ↑  Ghost five scetches japanese.jpg