Can someone tell me why this anime is worshipped by the community?

terryacer said:

I havent seen it myself

Dinoe said:
Well @terryacer, let's look at the anime itself:
- Animation/artstyle: Old, but good for its time. The series even had multiple studios working on it, since it was so long. And since the show was so long, you can notice that the animation also improves.

- Music: 'Space Opera', simply that. It fits the show perfectly, and captures the mood of every battle or interaction between characters

- Characters: A solid, big character cast with over 50 characters that all get enough screentime? Now that is just done right. Combine this with a battle between two sides, in which neither is truly evil, and that is simply solid.

- Story: Slowpaced goodness that involves strategies from the past, and events that happened early on in the show. The worldbuilding (or in this case; universe building) is fantastic, and you'll get a good understanding of the story.

This show is more aimed at those that finished many shows, but haven't found something truly great in some time.

After 480 anime entries, I got kinda boring. Finding shows with the same greatness (personal opinion afcourse) as Higurashi & FMAB was very difficult. But, Legend of the Galactic heroes satisfied me with the feeling after all these shows.

AdrianRubinsky said:
1- If you like politics, this anime is the masterpiece. Forget Code Geass or Gundam, this is the real deal.
2- If you like drama, it has one of the best characterizations and interactions between a very big cast.
3- If you like world building, this one has an entire universe bulding with the past history of the universe explained during the course of the series.
4- If you have thirst for blood, you will have plenty of it.
5- If you hate MCs that can survive anything because of plot shield... wait, better not spoil anything.
6- All protagonists and antagonists have a clear and feasible objective. Nobody is evil for the sake of being evil. Being protagonist or antagonist is just a point of view of the watcher, be either the Empire, Free Planets Alliance or the Phezzanis,

The only downside is outdated animation.

Rei366 said:


I like this title but it doesn't blind me to the point of believing that its animation is "good". It is clearly inferior to what the OAV format allowed back when it wasn't just bonus episodes added in magazines or video sets. It's at best comparable to an average TV show.
(not saying "for its age" for its age because it doesn't mean anything, people were able to animate things perfectly well before computer came to help)

Klonoa7H said:
Because of far right facists on /m/, /a/ and /pol/.

It's a good show, but it's got too many flaws to consider it the best anime of all time. In fact, the best anime ever made doesn't exist, it's all subjective. That's not a grand revelation, that's just a fact, and in my opinion, there's many older shows that deserve more praise then LOGH, which at this point is just a meme.

animehater98 said:
I see you still havent watched this anime based on your ratings

have you given it a try?

the time it took you to read or to reply, you could have finished half of the series and judge it for yourself.

eyerok said:


I consider myself a socialist/leftist, and LOTGH is my favorite anime of all time. I get your criticisms of the show, I have come across them before, but I don't agree with them, especially the political aspect of what the show is trying to do. Which I think you have interpreted in your own way.
In any case, threads like this one should be ignored, and all the useless toxic discussion that followed OP's naive question has been quite pointless. LOTGH only has a niche fanbase and it is a show that you will either love or not.
As for why I loved it? I was studying political science and law when I watched it. The characters, their POV's on life, their individual struggle within the political, cultural and social space that determined and governed their lives just resonated with me. I can't think of any other anime that has pulled off the same thing on the scope LOTGH does. Someone ill-informed in this thread mentioned that LOTGH was a watered down Battlestar Galactica (a show that I surprisingly don't like at all, despite being a science fiction fan). I would instead say that LOTGH is 'The Wire' of anime.
It's not everyone's cup of tea, and for good reasons. Just like the Wire, it's not made for everyone.



As fans of LOtGH, we should be careful in promoting the show and only try to encourage people we know might end up liking it. LOTGH is not for everyone. Which is why I don't go around praising it everywhere and recommending it to people. When I recommend anime, I instead go for safer titles, starting with Cowboy Bebop and Death Note, and then depending on the person, I recommend different titles. But I have only recommended LOTGH to 3 people since I saw it back in 2011 I think. or 2012. Can't remember.