Legend of the Galactic Heroes — Episode 2
I’m just jumping all over the place tonight.
Well, many many months ago (August 2007, perhaps) I watched the first episode of this series. I’ve finally decided to try another episode. I’m really hoping that this is just some sort of crash course into the series and that they don’t plan on every episode being like the opening two, or this is going to be one heck of a long 110 episodes.
There is a very grandiose feeling to this series that’s completely laughable (at least at this time.) This also goes into the portrayal of death of characters that have only been known for the past two episodes (so the extreme attention feels weird). I’m hoping this is supposed to make people feel the true impact of war, but the extremeness of it all (a million casualties?) makes it almost too far-fetched to really comprehend and therefore get into.
That said, I really do like the character designs. They’re well-detailed and very attractive. I’m looking forward to seeing more of AnneRose, as she’s voiced by Han Keiko (Luna!), and I’m hoping character interactions will be more important than giant chess-like battles.
For the time being I’m going to allow myself to MST the series as I watch until it turns into something I enjoy on its own merits.
Scott said,
March 13, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I know this is an old post, but I just found it searching Google.
The first two episodes are probably the worst IMO. They treat Lapp’s death like you already know the character. His death is an important motivation to Yang and Lapp’s wife , but it doesn’t make much sense at that point. It does later after they show a couple of flashbacks to when Yang and Lapp were in military school.
The series doesn’t do that again. The many characters are developed very well. Character interactions as much more important than chess like space battles but they are both given plenty of time. There’s a lot of political chess games being played between the characters though. The millions of deaths isn’t too absurd given that each side controls many planets.
Give it to ep. 7. That will give you a good enough idea of what to expect to decide if you like it.
ceriselumiere said,
March 14, 2008 at 6:59 am
Oh, I’ll be giving it a chance all the way through. Two years ago I made myself promise that if I start an anime, I finish it (just so no one tries to invalidate my opinion because I haven’t seen all of it.) So I’ll finish Legend–I’m just glad to hear it starts getting better fleshed out. I knew it was probably good given the people who recommended it, but I was a little nervous after the first two episodes. But even those were funny to watch in a cheesy, over dramatic sort of way.