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:
- 16. The New Tide
- 17. Before the Storm
- 18. The Lippstadt Conspiracy
00:49 – A Peek Behind the Curtain
03:31 – Episode 16
05:27 – The Worth of Human Life
07:44 – Reinhard’s temperament in victory
12:50 – Kircheis and Oberstein
14:52 – Paradigm Shifts (Fuck Job Trunicht)
17:40 – Paradigm Shifts (Empire Ver.)
19:30 – The Changing of the Guard
23:47 – DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING (Phezzan and the Terra-ists)
27:24 – Yang’s Squad
31:51 – Episode 17
34:29 – POW Exchange
36:01 – Iro’s Pointless Tangent on the Inner Workings of Iserlohn Fortress
37:31 – Yang and Kircheis Meet
41:26 – Extremist Groups and how people try to justify their power
46:42 – “What’s Yang like?”
48:26 – Episode 18
50:11 – Hildegard von Mariendorf and Anime Gender Roles
54:57 – Reinhard talked to a girl!!!
56:48 – The Lippstadt League
58:30 – The “Don’t Fuck With” List
1:00:58 – Anton Ferner and Arthur von Streit
1:06:32 – Braunschweig’s Ostentatious Golden Ship
1:08:00 – The Power of Words
1:10:53 – The Empire’s Situation
1:17:12 – Housekeeping and Final Thoughts
And don’t forget that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is available for streaming on HIDIVE!
The Glorio Blog 
The OVA did go a bit overboard with the designs for the Terraists (it’s a bit less out there in the novel). I suppose it could work if we consider that these are people who passionately believe in something that is ridiculous and pointless nonsense, and yet they are immensely dangerous as fundamentalist/religious fanatics tend to be… but yes, they do look rather silly.