In 2004, Kurumada celebrated 30 years as a professional manga artist, and that same year two of his older and best known works experienced a resurfacing. The original "Ring ni Kakero" was adapted to anime, 27 years after its manga debut, and as mentioned before, the "Saint Seiya" anime adaptation was resumed in 2003 and an attempt to start the Zeus Chapter was made with the release of the "Saint Seiya" "Tenkai-Hen Josō ~Overture~" movie in 2004, which was planned to continue the story with the subsequent release of OVAs, but due to discrepancies between Kurumada and Toei Animation, the project failed and was abandoned. Kurumada still plans to publish the "Zeus Chapter", written and drawn by him, in manga form in the near future, by 2012, a considerable amount of elements from it have already been revealed by Kurumada in "Saint Seiya Next Dimension" and he is set to continue doing so in the next instalments of that work in the japanese summer in 2013.