The first images of the manga appeared in the Champion Red issue of January 2003, published on November 19, 2002, along with posters by and an interview with Masami Kurumada.
[10] In Japan, most volumes have two versions, one a regular version and the other a limited edition, which features different covers and includes various goodies, like drama CDs, postcards, pins, a coin key holder, a day planner, tarot cards, a T-shirt, puzzles, calendars, a pass case and a key chain.
Between October 2007[12] and January 2008,[13] Champion Red published a short side-story along with the regular chapters that takes place a few years before the main plot.
[14] Saint Seiya Episode.G has yet to be licensed in English, but it has been translated into other languages and published in several countries outside Japan: in Brazil, by Conrad Editora;[15] by Panini Comics in Italy, Germany and France;[16][17][18] Glénat in Spain;[19] Editorial Ivrea in Argentina;[20] Editorial Kamite in Mexico;[21] and by Chuang Yi in Singapore.
[22] In December 2013, Megumu Okada announced via Twitter that he was working on a sequel manga titled Saint Seiya Episode.G: Assassin.