Legend of the Galactic Heroes episode 2: The Astate Encounter
April 21, 2015 § 2 Comments
We continue our episode-to-episode coverage of this classic SF anime. This episode continues with the battle where the Free Planets Alliance was getting beat by the smaller, more tactically versatile Imperial Fleet led by Lohengramm (how do you spell his name?)
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[…] (43:51 – 46:04) Podcast Promo’s: Our last promo was from February, so it’s high time we do another one. Alpha Counter has been keeping current with their once a week schedule for shows, which this latest episode is about upcoming films this summer. Anime World Order recently put out an episode reviewing The Anime Encyclopedia 3rd Edition, which even our latest promo aired on their episode, so thank you AWO gang! In other big news, the Daily Anime Podcast has released some more episodes, with Parasyte The Maximum and more Legend of Galactic Heroes talk. […]
Somewhere in the series it is explained that Iserlohn corridor is so important because it is the only path (apart from Phezzan corridor) between Alliance and Empire territories where navigation is possible. It is mentioned at some point (I believe by Yang, but I am not sure) that people in the future have major problems with navigation and communication, up to the point where armies are forced to use dogs and pidgeons in ground warfare. Pretty dumb, but as science fiction series LOGH tends to ignore science part (i think it’s more political fiction than science fiction even if it’s set in the distant future) so we have to go along with that explanation.