Cosmic X

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Doujinshi
Title: Cosmic X
Circle: C・B LINES
Doujinka: 烏丸 桃子 (Karasuma Momoko)
Hikoyama Tarlen
Aikawa Miwako
Umeda Naruto
Nokezorimachi 2 Top
Kanagawa Ken
Himukai Koziretta
Kobayashi Tomomi
Fujihisa Megumi
Kino Momoko
Fandom: Saint Seiya
Date/s: August 9, 1987 (C32) (Issue #1)
May 29, 1988 (Issue #2)
August 18, 1990 (C38) (Issue #3)
Type: Manga anthology
Size: A5
Language: Japanese
External Links: Sample Scanlations in Italian (Issue 1)
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Cosmic X is a series of BL manga anthology doujinshi for Saint Seiya. There are three issues in total. The focus on the first one is on the five main bronze saints while the second slowly gives more relevance to the Gold Saints.

Issue 1

Cover

Released in the 32nd edition of Comiket held from the 8th to the 9th of August 1987. It contains several humor stories about different couples like Hyoga x Shun, Hyoga x Ikki and Shiryu x Ohko in 92 pages. It also contains several illustrations between stories featuring some characters rare to see in fanworks like the black saints. On the cover it has a warning saying that the magazine doesn't contain radical pornography. In the early 00s some of the pages were translated into Italian and shared on the "Death Mask Home Page" website.

Other content:

  • Miami Vice: A comic about Hyoga and Ikki being yakuza.
  • Russian Roulette: A Hyoga x Shun story
  • Who Wants to be Lonely: Hyoga x Ikki
  • Comic strip: Shiryu x Ohko

Issue 2

Front cover

A mixture of comic and novel in 154 pages by several authors and a cover by Yayoi Takeda released in May 1988. Flagged as R-18 as one of the stories contain a sex scene. It features several couples, including Hyoga x Ikki, Hyoga x Shun, Shaka x Saga along with some gen stories. It comes with two Hyoga postcards attached to the book, one of Cygnus Hyoga as a baby by 2Top Nokezorimachi and another one of him posing next to his motorbike wearing sunglasses by Milk Takagi.

Issue 3

Front Cover

Announced as "The Final" and released in the 38th edition of Comiket in August 1990. Contains 80 pages and several comics from different authors. Cover by Yayoi Takeda (竹田やよい )