Seikai no Monshou

In the distant future, humanity is under attack by the Abh Empire, a race of advanced humanoid beings possessing vastly superior technology. As countless worlds fall to the Abh, mankind establishes the Four Nations Alliance—a resistance faction made up of the United Mankind, the Republic of Greater Alcont, the Federation of Hania, and the People's Sovereign of Union Planets.

Seikai no Monshou tells the story of Jinto Linn. When he was young, his father—the president of Martine—sold their world in exchange for a high position in the empire. Now a young count, Jinto must learn the ways of Abh nobility and live among those who subjugated his people. Helping him is Lafiel Abriel, an austere Abh princess whom Jinto quickly befriends. While traveling to Jinto's new school in the Abh homeland, their ship is caught in a violent space battle between the fleets of the Alliance and the Abh. Jinto and Abriel are thrust into the conflict, unaware that this skirmish marks the beginning of a full-scale war between the Abh Empire and mankind.

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Abriel, Lafiel Main

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Linn, Jinto Main

Imai, Yuka Japanese

Spoor, Beneej Supporting

Fukami, Rica Japanese

Abriel, Dusanyu Supporting

Shiozawa, Kaneto Japanese

Lexshue, Plakia Supporting

Takashima, Gara Japanese

Tlaïmh Borgh Ybdér, Laimsairh Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Jou, Haruhiko Japanese

Kyte Supporting

Ikemizu, Michihiro Japanese

Atosryua Syun-Atos Febdash Lyuf Raika Febdac, Srumh Supporting

Mugihito Japanese

Entryua, Rei Supporting

Ishizuka, Unshou Japanese

Sugita, Tsutomu Producer

Kunisaki, Hisanori Assistant Producer

Nagaoka, Yasuchika Director

Kobayashi, Katsuyoshi Sound Director

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Oct 28, 2024

Zeoguri

Recommended

Seikai no Monshou (aka Crest of the Stars) is an anime series based on the Seiun Award winning light novel trilogy by Hiroyuki Morioka. Hiroyuki Morioka's seikai series is sort of intermediate between the flowery and grandiose martial sci-fi of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, the ambitious and elaborate world building (galaxy building?) of Dune, and the 1990's aesthetics of moon-eyed bishoujo anime and, as such, has the ability to appeal to a wide range of viewers.

Seikai no Monshou follows the tribulations of Lafiel, an imperial cadet and not-so-secret princess of the blue-haired space elves, and Jinto, a young puppet baron of the empire that ... Lafiel is tasked with escorting. The empire, more specifically, the Abh Empire is a vast space faring polity run by genetically modified humans who seek to control the galaxy and the worm hole-like inter-dimensional openings that allow for interstellar colonization, trade, and warfare. While the Abh's galactic empire might sound a bit evil, it appears that the Abh only want what's best for their terran subjects who are allowed to enjoy a good degree of freedom so long as they mind their own planets and leave space to the Abh; after all it wouldn't due to allow those greedy and unpredictable terrans to start some sort of... some sort of Star War! Unfortunately, the good intentions of imperial overlords rarely go unpunished...

The seikai series also plays around with gender roles in ways that, for the time, were interesting enough that Seikai no Senki (the main series that acts as a sequel to Seikai no Monshou) was nominated for the grand prize of The Sense of Gender Awards. In Seikai no Monshou, the traditional gender roles between Lafiel and Jinto are reversed as Lafiel, a Strong Female Character, is portrayed as more competent and capable when handling conflict while Jinto takes on more of a sensitive and supportive role. In addition, the Abh have what could be described as a feminist society and many of the important Abh characters are powerful women who are contrasted with the terran women who are typically portrayed as servants or service workers whose potential is hidden behind their menial position in society.

In general, there's a lot to like about Seikai no Monshou but maybe not all that much to love. I sort of get the feeling that a big part of the novel series's appeal is in their world building but an anime series can only fit in so much lore before its opening credits. It's also a series whose slow, character focused story might be a hard sell to modern audiences and that's before factoring in its dated animation and 90's gender politics, but I enjoyed it well enough and will check out it's sequel soon.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 14, 2021

thefunkhunter

Mixed Feelings

Crest of the stars is less sci fi and more romance comedy without the romance and without the comedy (very poor attempts anyway). The two main characters are unlikable entitled nobles with a typical archetypical strong female lead and an beta male. Ship and art design is decent enough. Those that are fans of legends of galactic heroes will be disappointed in the poor characters and there lack of development in this one. I kept waiting for the anime to pick up or get better and it never did. The two main characters are excruciating to listen to them have a conversation and will ... make you cringe in agony. Story had potential setup but unfortunately it the series consisted of 10 percent story and 90 percent two main characters flirting badly. I even tried watching the first two episodes of banner of the stars to see if it would get any better, and unfortunately it didn't. This is a skip.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 2, 2021

hhmmmm

Not Recommended

Genuinely one of the worst anime I've ever seen and I read a lot of sci-fi and in terms of scifi outside of anime it's also abysmal.

Tedious, formulaic and genuinely no redeeming features. It does't even look good.

It's genuinely terrible. But not only is it terrible it's also deeply up it's own arse that it doesn't understand it's trash. And so gives it some of the dramatic trappings and rhythms of epic scifi with none of the intellectual or dramatic content.

But the other thing is it's also so long. It's not got much to say and even less that's interesting but to presumably fill the ... run time they repeat every piece of information conveyed. Something will be discussed and then they just say it again. It's like the teletubbies.

This is truly a show for dumb people who think they are smart. It's a show for the easily dazzled.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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