The existence of the dub is supported by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), who approved 40 Knights of the Zodiac episodes as Canadian content on December 1st, 2003. The channel ran episodes 33-36 twice, with 37-40 only airing once, as YTV permanently removed Knights of the Zodiac from its lineup on October 9th, 2004. In Canada, however, all 40 episodes aired on television, with the dub's conclusion airing on July 24th, 2004. ADV Films would later release those 32 episodes across 8 DVD and VHS releases between January and November 2004. Though Cartoon Network initially planned to run the rest of DIC's dub in a late-night slot, the show was pulled from the channel's schedule in April 2004 after 32 episodes aired. Utilizing an entirely separate voice cast from the Houston, Texas area, their dub was primarily released on home video and ran for 60 episodes. Parallel to DIC's dub, ADV Films produced their own uncut version under the Saint Seiya name. Canadian broadcaster YTV aired a preview episode on September 1st before airing the show in its regular rotation on September 5th, 2003. The series debuted on Cartoon Network in the United States on August 30, 2003. This version featured significant visual edits, storyline modifications and a cover of The Flock of Seagulls song I Ran by American rock band Bowling for Soup as its opening theme song. The company produced an edited English dub recorded in Toronto, Ontario, by Kaleidoscope Entertainment. The French studio announced that it had sold 40 episodes of the show to Cartoon Network for broadcast in the United States under the name Knights of the Zodiac. The following June, it was revealed that the company had only acquired a sublicense to Saint Seiya through an agreement with children's entertainment company DIC Entertainment - similar to their earlier partnership on another anime series, Sailor Moon. In July 2002, anime distributor ADV Films announced at their Otakon 2002 panel that they had purchased the rights to release the series in North America.

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