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| Is realizing the envelopment of his fleet is slow enough to allow him to attack the Republic fleets piecemeal supposed to demonstrate genius on Rheinhard's part? How could it be difficult to see this? How could the other commanders be so incompetent as to not know how fast a fleet can move? Pretty dry stuff. I think it'd help if I had some idea of what the stakes were. What happens if one side or the other prevails? The asides with that bald man were also awfully opaque. He's interested in the battle but there's no hint why. Why should I be interested? |
| After years of procrastination, I finally gave in and decided to watch this because of all the praise this was getting. Oh boy, it's going to take me forever to remember all the names/titles...At least I was already informed with some of the important characters so that's a start. So far I'm liking Reinhard the most out of the characters. He's cleary a confident individual but he doesn't come off as too arrogant or an ass...I dig that. As for Yang, he also seems very competent so that's great. Ok start so far. Not gonna lie though, It was a little boring at times so hopefully it gets better. |
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| I'm rewatching these series. And I wanted to give some comments on each of the episodes. Don't worry, there won't be any spoilers. Now, let's start: Everyone praises these series for the vastness of the storyline. And it's true: this story tries to picture the entire human history. But to me there's always something more vast - and that's our universe. Compared to that mankind and it's history is just too insignificant. So I really like to meet someone who understands that: Reinhard and Kircheis. But now these two start to discuss something far less romantic, no, I should say "exactly the opposite"... I don't like how this episodes tries to make us think that the old people are stupid and the young ones are geniouses, just because the main characters are young and clever. Other than that I don't have anything to complain about. Even about animation. Because I know how hard it is to draw. If you look closely you'll find out that the art is quite decent. Take for example, that palace in Neue Sanssousi. Next, we see Annerose and... How cruel it is of them (I'm talking about Kaiser and Lichtenlade) to be talking about her brother being surrounded by the force twice as big! She looks calm, but I'm sure she's worried! Now let's move on to Yang and his rejected plan. It seems it's not the first time for him, but still it's not fair. "Too cautious" you say. Most of the battles were lost because of those who underestimate their opponent. I'm sorry to see Lapp, Yang's friend, die so meaninglessly. |
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| Good but boring start. Expected it but this will be a long ride I guess. |
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| This was a pretty good episode. It got me excited a little bit to see what will happen next.. |
| Great start. Only thing that is not great is the animation quality. Art, Sounds, premise are all great. Looking forward for this. |
| I know I'm going to hurt me intentionally, but I was sick of waiting for the arrival of a subtitled version in my native language. So, as a start, the catapult narrative the viewer immediately on the battlefield, but you'll also meet other secondary issues such as the environment and not. Drawings, fine, and impressive soundtrack, like being at the theater. |
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| First episode, and i am happy, does not disappoint!!!! |
| Interesting, but I expected so much more. I was actually pretty bored by the half episode mark. The art was pretty consistent and detailed so I liked it. Although the animation was choppy sometimes. I don't know if this was my fault or not, but the battle made no sense tbh. I'm interested enough to continue, but probably wont be watching it anytime soon. |
| Ho..hoo...hooold on for one second: Ryo Horikawa (Vegeta) is voicing Reinhard ^^. This is just epic :D Apart from that, this episode wasn't particularly amazing but I guess we need to get more context. |
| On the fence with this. Sean_Nessman said: Yeah like how for some reason they chose to explain to each other the mundane details of what they've been routinely doing for presumably the majority of their adult lives. Anyway I didn't pay attention to how superb the writing is this early on. When the 2 Empire soldiers go to their tank sleep, even that trivial conversation is super super gold. Like when I go to get gas, I make sure to explain in detail to the person next to me how I am, at that very moment, getting gas for my car and what the process involves. Typical, casual conversation that totally happens in real life. I wouldn't call ham-fisted exposition "superb" writing, even if they throw in a little poetic line about nightmares at the end. |
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| episode 1... one thing that i found really hard was trying to read the names of the many characters while also reading the subtitles. i know that this series has a lot of characters, so it's going to be a challenge trying to remember them, if not only the main characters. they were clearly in a winning position, but because of the commander's incompetence it went the wrong way where they ended up losing two of their fleets. i can already see the brilliance in both of the young commanders, but personally i think i find yang as my favourite because he's a lot more reserved. |
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| 1988 and this animation is better than nowadays. |
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| Well, this is the first step to a long journey. It's been years since I was first exposed to Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and while I know a number of cursory information about this series, I've held off completing it due to high expectations and wanting to get into it after experiencing a good amount of other shows to better gauge how good LOTGH is. The classical orchestra music checks out, I love the huge scale of the initial battle, and the emphasis on strategy for maneuvering the fleets over the soldiers' personal battles seem to frame this show as a war of numbers over emotion. But, again, this is only the first episode, so I'm looking forward to how this show develops. |
| I have watched the two movies this week and started this now, the first episode was a recap of the second movie with some new scenes but still boring to watch because of I just watched two days ago, I think the second episode will a recap as well. |
Raizel said: I have watched the two movies this week and started this now, the first episode was a recap of the second movie with some new scenes but still boring to watch because of I just watched two days ago, I think the second episode will a recap as well. The second movie (Overture to a New Battle) is actually a remake of the first two episodes, not the other way round. They have some different scenes, but overall the movie version is considered as superior in terms of quality. |
| Boring first episode. There is just a war going on and 2 armies fighting. I like the logistics of how the galactic empire decided to encounter each fleet individually than all at once. But the enemy commanders should have seen it coming. It is quite basic after all. I hope each of the main characters have some depth to their character or motivations to win the war. We have seen one MC have his imouto/sister in politics, but nothing more than that. I hope that all the characters are not 2 dimensional. In fact, one of the general's death seemed to be the same. Dying with the photo of an unknown woman going off, what is she, his mistress? Nice use of romance as a plot device buddy. If this series has no 3 dimensional battles and instead focuses on 2d terrain battles, it is gonna be boring. I get that they are in orbit around the planet, but wouldn't a 3d formation be better than a 2d formation? I would go for a triangular pyramidal formation, with the apex being the enemy fleet and the 3 points on the base being the own fleet, with the enemy fleet facing my own fleet at angles of 120 degrees each from their initial direction of motion. That way, if the enemy fleet tries to attack my fleet, the other 2 can focus on the enemy fleet from far off. Are space fights really possible only in close range? And sound in space? They better give a good explanation like in Gundam. How is the neutral planet gonna profit if the war ends??? War profiteers make a lot of profit than in normal times. Also those commanders are babies. Not willing to attack their own friends. What did they join the army for? |
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| Oh boi, so it begin... |
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| Looking over this thread, it's funny to see people mentioning at the start that LotGH was #1, and it's slowly dropped to #7 over ten years. I wonder what that means about MAL, and far less about anime in general. |
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| Well decided to start watching this old anime, and god is a long journey. I felt that many things were happening and I couldn't really keep with it because I tend to do more than 1 thing when watching an anime to save time. Names that's another difficult thing to memorize, I memorized Reinhard and Yang already because they seemed to be the most iconic characters and we see Yang mentor die, while throwing a photo of her fiance. Anyways I hope I can enjoy the series as I should and I think I may need to rewatch it after being done with it but so far has been really good with lots of things happening, if not for the animation that's hard to digest when you are used to modern animation. But is understable for an OVA budget that may have been not as good, and is also old, so. |
| I like this ,though the eng sub is sometimes hard to understand |
| It can be seen from the quality of the drawings, but can also be heard from the soundtrack, that this anime is from another era. The narration goes straight to the point and also shows the context a bit, not bad. This time, I hope this long ride to finish this anime series doesn't stop, I want to get to the end. |
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| Damn those commanders are bunch of fools I wonder how did they become one, probably because of seniority War isn't some shounen where you can save everyone :P I don't know which one I'm rooting for, they're all main characters xD |
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| I'm up to date with the remake, I think that helped me to enjoy this episode even more since I'm already familiar with the essence of the story. And it took me merely a few seconds to get used to the differences in production. I love the remake, but this version has also it's charm. Great start and I'm so hyped for this journey. |
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| Hmmmmm... I don't understand this lol Too many characters that I'm confused who's the allies or the enemy. The episode 1 didn't explain more about the war.. the war seems like a spaceship battle game that no thousand of people involve.. poor guys! |
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CG-Silver said: Good but boring start. Expected it but this will be a long ride I guess. Yep, seems to me like this will be a slow burn |
| I'm liking it so far. I'll probably be able to remember their names eventually, but so far I think Reinhard is cool. |
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| Really love Reinhard's voice actor |
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| So many characters it's quite confusing, but well Yang seems to be the most interesting one |
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| pacing more bearable den da movies 🥱 |
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| These guys talk too much. The OP/ED here is fire tho. |
| I feel so dumb watching this.. :( It was hard to follow, so confusing.. I didn't understand the war, the dialogues.. it will take me ages to remember the names, titles, etc.. felt like I was thrown into the middle of something very grand.. I hope it will get easier to follow as the show progresses.. |
| The movie remake has a better presentation but this first episode wasn't bad at all. I think the reasoning of the war was better presented here, the movie remake literally didn't say anything. |
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| last night my internet had been dropped so i had to watch something lol, and this anime just lied in my harddrive, so i decided to give it at try. and damn it was good. the animation and action scenes aren't exciting, but that isn't the point in my view. the characters are likeable from the very beginning. i feel the reason for the war had started is lacking, hope they will fill it in time. oh and i tried to remember the names lol, not much success but i got the primary ones. |
| Finally started to watch! I can't remember anyone's names either lol. So I guess it's a game of brains as opposed to brawns. And also, dismissing the power of friendship already lmao |
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| Its been quite some time, I've been questioning myself whether or not is the time to finaly start watching this show, guess that day has come. I think this is gonna be one of a kind ride for me, everything here just seems so different from regular anime that we see nowadays, but I really have high expectations and heard nothing but praise about this series, however its a fact that many people find it scary for two main reasons : it's long and it's old. So far after first episode I can say that OP alone almost got me sold on commiting to fully watch this, such a beautiful choice of music that lets you feel the massive scope you are about to witness. |
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