We continue across the sea of stars, where Gee and Iro watch the seminal 1988-1997 Legend of the Galactic Heroes OVA a few episodes at a time. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat as we work our way through the history books.
Opening Song: Sea of Stars
Ending Song: Crossing the Bridge of Light (Orchestral Version)
Show Notes
This installment covers episodes:
- 13. When the Rain Comes…
- 14. Liberation of the Frontier
- 15. The Battle of Amlitzer
00:41 – Our podcast logistics are totally good and fine
02:15 – Episode 13
03:00 – Scorched Earth tactics
03:56 – Kessler and Kleingelt
08:29 – Reinhard’s decisions
10:55 – Voice Actors
12:17 – Episode 14
12:57 – Democracy’s Prerequisites
15:42 – Logistics (Fuck Andrew Fork)
21:04 – Riots and Laser Remingtons
22:50 – Admiral Bucock is pretty cool
26:22 – Fleet Admiral Lobos’ Nap and the web of history
29:00 – Episode 15 and New Territory
30:38 – Ship designs
32:41 – Supplies, Maintenance, and differences with DNT
35:40 – Reinhard’s Squad
38:57 – Reactions to times of crisis
43:29 – Regroup at Amlitzer
48:19 – Reinhard finally flustered
51:36 – Cliffhangers
54:53 – LoGH‘s reputation as dry and boring
57:19 – Every person, every moment matters
1:00:28 – Depth of storytelling
1:02:08 – Housekeeping and closing
And don’t forget that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is available for streaming on HIDIVE!
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FWIW all of the BGM in the OVA is actual classical music, overwhelmingly from romantics (lots of Beethoven, Mahler, Wagner, etc). After watching LoGH classical music will never be the same, you go to a concert of literally any romantic composer, and spend the whole time having LoGH flashbacks and/or composing space battles to the music.
And yes, the charm of the characters is why I always say that as good as the story is, LoGH’s main strength is its cast. There’s a lot of characters and it may seem overwhelming at first, but the expanded main cast is just so good and engaging, from the morally upstanding ones to the hot messes. (And that’s where I think DNT really dropped the ball, aside of the pacing.)
It really does make me wish more anime would make good use of the tradition of classical music. Still, I suppose we also haven’t seen such a grand drama as LoGH in a long while in anime.
Honestly if anything has ruined me on classical music it was Classicaloid