#The Fighter and descendant of Theseus (Theresa)

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Happy almost 20th Anniversary, Class Of The Titans

It’s the 19th anniversary of…

Class Of The Titans!

which is only a few more months until 20 years since…

the leader, Jay (the descendant of Jason)

the brain, Odie (the descendant of Odysseus)

the brawn, Herry (the descendant of Hercules)

the hunter, Atlanta (the descendant of Artemis)

the warrior, Archie (the descendant of Achilles)

the fighter, Theresa (the descendant of Theseus)

and the good-looking, Neil (the descendant of Narcissist)

All came together to defeat the god of Time, Cronus, and save the world for peace

Tagging: @lady-scorpion-and-friends, @mountmultimuses, @muses-of-the-memory, @mariahdoby13, and every single one of you!

[dragontamer05]

One of my favourite not anime shows growing up and tbh still is, is Class of the Titans.

It aired on Teletoon and was a Canadian made show so idk if it ever got aired in the states.

I think a handful of episodes might have been released on dvd but certainly not all. You can find it online to watch may not be like 1080/720p hd quality but it’s not like shitty it’s watchable.

You can watch it here on Youtube - The quality is really good (I believe you can or at least could find it on Amazon or iTunes) 

Anyway.

So the premise is you have this group of kids who are like all descendants of Greek Heroes and basically come together because of a prophecy saying that they’ll defeat Cronus (yes as in the titan)

You have Jay the leader and descendant of Jason (no surprise) and is probably the most Greek out of the group as he mentions his mother being Greek. And basically is our Greek Myth buff/nerd of the group

Theresa who’s descendant of Theseus. Also she’s a third degree black belt. Also as a descendant of Theseus makes her related to Poseidon too. She lives with her Dad (mom doesn’t seem to be in the picture) and is like really rich.

Fun fact in the English dub of Inuyash her and Jay’s voice actors play Miroku and Sango (Also Theresa’s has voiced Barbie in most if not all the Barbie movies. - Jay was also the Nutcracker in Barbie and the Nutcracker)

Atlanta bad ass Canadian girl was originally supposed to be a descendant of the Greek Hero by the same name but was changed to Artemis- can only assume they did it simply cause more people would know who Artemis is over Atlanta *shrug* Don’t really know anything about her home life.

Harry descendant of Hercules- the only family we see of his is his grandmother and I love her. Does not at all seem phased by this gods n monsters shit.

Odie descendant of Odysseus - also our more tech savy kinda nerdy one of the group. Probably about the only person who knows almost as much about Greek myth as Jason.

Archie descendant of Achilles and much like Achillies he too has a problem with his heel. He wears a brace on it. They never elaborate outside of a comment he makes about ‘I have a wonky heel.’ Dude still a great fighter, though he can’t swim and is terrified of water.

and lastly Neil. a descendant of Narcissus of all people. but like they make it work. Dude is a supermodel. While mostly played for comic relief and a bit of a coward he’s actually not totally useless nor did I ever really find him annoying. Aside from just being like a walking good luck charm, he can kind of fight and on more then one occasion it’s shown despite how self absorbed he can be he does care about his friends and isn’t entirely selfish.

Also his friends more then once have called him out on his shit.

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Then of course we got the gods. The main one is Hera. We do see Zeus but we actually aren’t (officially) introduced to him till a few episodes in. He mostly hangs in the background and also sorta moonlights as the school’s janitor that they go to- the school is like somewhere in BC I think or it’s supposed to be. No the gods aren’t all secretly their teachers (that would be funny).

Nah they just kinda are in this separate dimension that connects to the school- but can only be accessed via these special pendants the protags have.

I think my favourite has to be Persephone and Hades. We only see Hades in a few episodes but like this is the first time I’ve seen him not shown as being super gloomy. He’s honestly downright cheerful, and he loves his Cerberus and Persephone.

- It’s also nice to see the Underworld depicted as just a place - not evil or bad, only bad in it is Tartorus. Sure there are dangers/threats to the characters if they happen to go there but that’s more to do with the fact of they’re are living people going about in a world meant only for the dead. Even Death/Thanatos is just treated as someone just doing his job- he’s not made out as wicked or evil for what he does. 

Hermes, Ares, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis are some of he more main ones we see. 

And each episode they usually end up dealing with something from Greek myth. Whether it’s Cronus sending a creature after them or looking for an object and then they try to stop him.

There is actually a Valentine’s episode but honestly I love it. It’s fun. We get to meet Eros who hates being called Cupid- only his wife Psyche gets to call him that. Cronus decides to abduct them both and then basically uses Eros to spread hate instead of love to cause chaos.

At no point did things ever start feeling too predictable (to the point of being boring) and my favourite thing has to be the way they ended the series.

Favourite episode has to be Mother Knows Best (I believe that’s what it is called) It’s basically a Mother’s day episode and we get to meet Gaia and nothing overly plot relevant happens but it’s fun. 

I think the great thing about it is- If you like Greek myth it’s fun seeing the different depictions of gods and the references to different myths even tackling ones that aren’t talked about much (like there’s an episode involving Orion), if you don’t know greek myth it’s just a great action show with some fantasy elements fun characters and may even get someone interested in it but I think even those with out any interest in it what so ever can still enjoy it too.

Animation wise I’d say it’s decent- not the worst out there and the animation does get better in season 2