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To subjugate one first needs to conquer his own conscience.

This anime, and its greatness, cannot be put into simple words of a peasant like myself.

It is 4 am in the morning on a cold Saturday in North Western British isles whilst I am writing this. I did not get my sleep yet. And yet, I am writing, I am writing because I must. To review this masterpiece is my goal. I will try - or I shall die in the attempt.

A humble goal.

This anime is all, but humble.

The greatest anime there was, is and ever will be. This is undeniable. I used ... to think 'Code Geass' was the greatest, until I opened my eyes and saw the truth. Code Geass is pretentious it attempts to be Machiavellian, but instead all it achieves is sensationalism and over the top lack of realism.

On the other hand.... LotGH achieves EVERYTHING there is to achieve for an anime. Aside from its writing, plot, art and thematic sound and characterization successes. LotGH as an anime reminds me of a book I've recently read 'The Prince' which really tells you of the Machiavellian nature of this show. Furthermore the constant references to Machiavelli really make me think that the writer is a true genius.

Its flawless, well perhaps not entirely, for there is nothing that is flawless and can exist.

[/rant] The writer's only major slip up are the battles themselves, they are not written perfectly as everything else. The tactics portrayed are not exactly 'good' 'feasible' or 'noteworthy' often when the victorious commander executes a tactic of sheer common sense and not doing anything stupid he is hailed as a genius for it. Other times when Yang Wenli utilises the semi-circle formation - he automatically wins; but whenever this formation is utilised by anyone but Yang Wenli it results in failure. Most of Yang Wenli's (and his successors in FPA) were sheer plot armour (sword?) tricks instead of legitimate victories. I love Yang as a character but every-time he keeps getting BS victories I hate him, he wins NOT because of the enemy's incompetence but because the plot allows him and his allies to withstand 50x more beating and 50x more superior enemies without collapsing or taking casualties. Many times we see an imperial fleet or other FPA fleets collapse and get annihilated in mere seconds when faced with certain tactics, but when those tactics are used against Yang Wenli, he takes a beating from them for 1/2 an episode seeing his army be in a seemingly hopeless situation but then Yang Wenli tells them to do common sense things like 'oh we are surrounded?' 'lets break out focusing on a single point in the enemy formation' and boom they are free and suddenly they have a huge advantage because everyone forgot that they must've taken huge losses in their previous formation. They are suddenly fully replenished and can easily annihilate the enemy by using 'common sense tactics' which only work when Yang uses them. Others try sophisticated formations and tactics but Yang only uses the semi-circle and common sense to kill them. [\rant]

- this is quite simply disappointing.

Yet despite this, this is still an anime worthy of the 10/10 score and the title of a masterpiece.