Legend of the Galactic Heroes 19: Yang’s Fleet Moves Out
July 1, 2017 § 1 Comment
Hello, here I discuss episode 19, an Alliance episode where Yang responds to Reinhardt’s operation to implant a bunch of imperial agents who want to disrupt the Free Planet Alliance. It’s pretty cool to see the FPA fall apart and Yang try to salvage the situation.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes episode 18: The Lippstadt Conspiracy
June 17, 2016 § Leave a comment
There’s a lot of politicking in this episode. I suppose that’s not unique to this one!
Ironically I imagine Bernie Sanders would probably love this show, since it resonates with his whole “young, capable people being proactive in politics” appeal.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 17: Before the Storm
June 1, 2016 § Leave a comment
Come visit us at Iserlohn fortress, on the borderspace between the Empire and the Free Planet Alliance! We have the sequel to Gone with the Wind playing in movie theaters!
Commodore Fork in a previous episode
Commodore Fork as a conspirator in episode 17
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ED Theme: Konosuba Ending (Ukelele Cover) by Halcyon
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 16: A New Tide
May 30, 2016 § Leave a comment
It was a good episode, much like a lot of the other episodes.
Look at him, don’t you just want to follow Yang Wen-Li into battle?
Or would you rather pledge allegiance to a puppet child?
He’s not Rihanna
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ED Theme: Konosuba ED (baritone Ukelele cover) by Halcyon
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 15: The Battle of Amlitzer
January 20, 2016 § Leave a comment
This episode of Legend of the Galactic Heroes’s Achilles heel.
This is really jarring. (a problem of the remastering)
From Civilian’s POV
A pretty good general critique of the show.
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End Theme: Life is Sweet – Paul Freeman
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 14: Liberation of the Frontiers
December 1, 2015 § Leave a comment
In this episode, we learn why Scorched Earth tactics violate human rights, but that said all of this is over contested territories between two different systems of coercion. I mean, the romanticism of frontier life is the libidinal economy of colonialism, but whatever. lol. A lot of us dream of a better life and I’m equally as guilty (if we could even say that dreaming is a sin… but our dreams should be bigger than having a wife and kids on our own planet…)
Enough of my anarchist ways in the comments.
This is when freedom and equality are just words, and what are words when compared to people getting food?
Let’s hope that Yang Wen-Li and the gang survive this stupid war.
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[audio https://archive.org/download/LoGHEp14LiberationOfTheFrontier/LoGH%20ep14%20Liberation%20of%20the%20Frontier.mp3]ED theme: The first ending to the show lol. It feels the most appropriate.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 13: When the Rain Comes
October 12, 2015 § Leave a comment
These are not words
Here’s the song used in the scene where young Ulrich is running through the forest with young Vier.
I know very little about classical music, but I’m sure someone could use this information.
Shoutout to Gustav Mahler, you did good buddy, you made it into an anime.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 12: Advance into Imperial Territory
September 14, 2015 § Leave a comment
Adrian Rubinsky living the dream
This episode is about the political opportunism that comes with people trying to gain seats at the highest level of political authority, looking back there’s a few more things I should’ve talked about, but this episode was already almost the length of the actual episode so it’s whatever, if you have a comment feel free to leave one below!
The glass of wine will be well animated, nothing else.
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ED theme: ACNL 8AM (because I recorded this at 8AM)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 11: The Actress Exits
September 8, 2015 § Leave a comment
I talk about some comments in this episode. I don’t think this episode was up to par.
It was strange because when I first watched this episode a few weeks ago it was a lot more interesting, but on this watch-through it was kind of meh, even though I do think this episode’s set-up is kind of funny, although it’s mostly a woman’s jealousy gets exploited by another noble who hates Reinhardt.
Susanna is so precious.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 10: Jessica’s Battle
September 5, 2015 § 1 Comment
In this episode I mumble through the episode where Yang returns to Thernusen, the place where his old military academy was, and he encounters Jessica Edwards and struggles with survivors guilt, especially when thinking through his relationship with Jessica and his best friend Jean Robert Lap.
There’s also a Char’s Counterattack-esque moment in here that I find interesting to think about, especially in how it contrasts with the critique of the media/political cycle.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 9: The Klopstock Incident
July 16, 2015 § 1 Comment
This episode was awesome, got to see some more action in the Kaiser’s court from a man who opposed it and was ostracized and got to see some interesting background information on the Kaiser.
There was also some hilarious looking laptops. 
No one likes the prince.
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OP&ED Theme: 3DS Security BGM
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 8: Cold, Clear Cybernetic Eyes
July 8, 2015 § 1 Comment
7/2/15 will become LOGH Day and our grandchildren will celebrate by engaging in intricate space politics.
— Kane's Dad (@jyareddo) July 3, 2015
Legend of the Galactic Heroes getting licensed and distributed in the United States is a pretty big piece of news in my humble opinion. It finally happened. After all these years, it finally happened.
Today’s episode is about Oberstein and Lohengramm’s political ambitions, maneuvering on the political terrain in the Kaiser’s court in the wake of the Iserlohn Invasion. It’s pretty good.
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Ending theme: Dvorak’s From the New World 2nd Movement
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 7: The Iserlohn Invasion
June 4, 2015 § Leave a comment
This is an episode filled with action, and it even has its own funny moments.
Drunk Soldiers who have no idea what is going on when the invasion happens. The Empire for the most part is caught off-guuard
Which is why they call him Miracle Yang
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ED theme: ACNL 1AM
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 6: The Rosen Ritter
May 22, 2015 § Leave a comment
This episode (of the anime) is pretty funny, I was giggling throughout a lot of it given the seriousness of the music and the laid-back attitude that Yang Wen-li had in the face of a suicide mission.
I also noticed there’s a strange mechanical sound at the beginning of the episode, that’s my refrigerator, I didn’t feel like re-recording so the sound is still in there. My bad.
His coronation speech is hilarious.
Secretary of Defense Truniht’s salt though.
Look at how adorable Frederica Greenhill is.
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End theme: ACNL 1AM
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Epsiode 5: The Kastrop Rebellion
May 20, 2015 § Leave a comment
Another episode over Legend of the Galactic Heroes, this time we see the continued development of Lohengramm’s rise to power and the scheming by Phezzan in influencing the affair.
There’s a lot of negotiation over nobility, with the critique of the corrupt nobles and all that.
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End theme: ACNL Downtown Snowy 1
Here is the long list of other people in the Lohengramm camp who become pretty important later on in the series.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 4: The Empire’s Afterglow
May 19, 2015 § Leave a comment
Here’s another installment in our episode-to-episode coverage of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
This episode establishes the backstory of Siegfried Kircheis and Reinhardt Von Lohengramm as they receive promotions from the King for their exploits at the Battle of Astate.
We see Reinhardt, motivated with contempt for the decadent nobles who ask their subjects to die for them while they host flamboyant parties at the palace and take from those beneath them.
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End theme: 3DS Internet Settings BGM
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 3: Birth of the 13th Fleet
April 23, 2015 § 2 Comments
Here’s another installment in our episode-to-episode coverage of the SF anime classic, Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
I really do like how small both Jessica Edwards and Secretary of Defense Truniht are, the enormous stage adds to that overwhelming sense of producing, via imaginative and physical labor, the monolithic idea of the nation-state with no actual referent other than the small people who work with and confront each other.
This image is also pretty gloomy, because it is the second to last shot of the episode before the credits roll. Yang Wen Li becomes the sort of reluctant hero, not just out of survivors guilt but because the category of hero is part of the state propaganda machine that is used by those in charge to get Yang to do what they want him to do, to either die or to do something heroic to increase their popularity.
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End theme: Fortunate Son by Creedance Clearwater Revival
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?)
How will future anime historians view this event?
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes episode 1: In the Eternal Night
November 11, 2014 § Leave a comment
Hey y’all, today I start a new series, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and we start with the first episode, because that’s where people start watching shows.
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Look at the twp calenders I mentioned. Two different political systems. Remember what the dude from Gundam said? Isn’t this just a Gundam show now? But without the newtypes and the mobile suits? So a better show…
I need to find a better way to watch this because the aspect ratio is all messed up. What is going on.
