This year's 41st issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion magazine will announce on Thursday that Masami Kurumada will resume his Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades manga with the "latest series" in magazine's first 2016 issue on December 3. The series will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Saint Seiya.

Kurumada ended the latest "season" of the manga in January 2014 and put the manga on hiatus. He published special chapters for the series in June 2014 and and July 2015.

Kurumada began serializing Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades in 2006. The manga revolves around the villain Hades as he reminisces about his past life in the 18th century.

Kurumada published the original Saint Seiya manga from 1986 to 1990.

