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Legend of the Galactic Heroes - 1-10
I started watching it because people always seem to give it 10/10 after watching. It's lived up to the hype so far, and I gave it 9/10 after watching the 10th episode.
The wide scope of the story is intimdating. The first episode wasn't good because it introduced something like 15 characters, giving names such as 'Bernt von Derkinhour' to each. I couldn't remember the names or roles of most. It improved since then, though, taking lots of time to add character development to Wenli (the main character from the Free Alliance) and Reinhard (the main character from the Galactic Empire). Due to the war sections of the story being xomplex because the amount of faces, names and ranks thrown around, I actually prefer watching the episodes that focus on developing the cast more than I enjoy seeing the war progress.
Does anyone have a chart that rans the nobility and military ranks used in the story? I have a vague understanding, knowing which rank is higher than the other, but I can't say I have a firm grasp on the roles of rank. For example, I'm not sure how an 'Imperial Admiral' (Reinhard seems to command all other Admirals), an 'Admiral', a 'Vice Admiral' and a 'Rear Admiral' work together. It's headache inducing.
I'm going to watch another 10 episodes later. I'll then watch the remaining 5-6 episodes of the first series. After that, I'll rewatch the first series in an attempt to get the informaion to sink into my brain. I don't think it'll do much good with my memory being as bad as it is but it's worth a shot.
I started watching it because people always seem to give it 10/10 after watching. It's lived up to the hype so far, and I gave it 9/10 after watching the 10th episode.
The wide scope of the story is intimdating. The first episode wasn't good because it introduced something like 15 characters, giving names such as 'Bernt von Derkinhour' to each. I couldn't remember the names or roles of most. It improved since then, though, taking lots of time to add character development to Wenli (the main character from the Free Alliance) and Reinhard (the main character from the Galactic Empire). Due to the war sections of the story being xomplex because the amount of faces, names and ranks thrown around, I actually prefer watching the episodes that focus on developing the cast more than I enjoy seeing the war progress.
Does anyone have a chart that rans the nobility and military ranks used in the story? I have a vague understanding, knowing which rank is higher than the other, but I can't say I have a firm grasp on the roles of rank. For example, I'm not sure how an 'Imperial Admiral' (Reinhard seems to command all other Admirals), an 'Admiral', a 'Vice Admiral' and a 'Rear Admiral' work together. It's headache inducing.
I'm going to watch another 10 episodes later. I'll then watch the remaining 5-6 episodes of the first series. After that, I'll rewatch the first series in an attempt to get the informaion to sink into my brain. I don't think it'll do much good with my memory being as bad as it is but it's worth a shot.
Zin5ki
Railgun
Arrived in the post today. Considering I ordered it on Monday night it was quite a quick delivery. Being a penny below the legal VAT limit it went through customs without incident. The boxset itself was slightly bent but it looks acceptable on my shelf, and for £17.99 I'm not complaining.BlackWolf said:Let me know if it gets caught by customs or not if you wouldn't mindi wouldn't mind that set myself considering it also includes the movie
Zin5ki said:Arrived in the post today. Considering I ordered it on Monday night it was quite a quick delivery. Being a penny below the legal VAT limit it went through customs without incident. The boxset itself was slightly bent but it looks acceptable on my shelf, and for £17.99 I'm not complaining.BlackWolf said:Let me know if it gets caught by customs or not if you wouldn't mind
Ah nice
thanks for thatEdit: I got side tracked
FMP? Fumoffu eps 1-3 so far i'm liking this, been a while since i've laughed a lot
Managed to watch Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu eps 7-9 before my g/f came over, going to finish this off tonight i think...
EDIT: Yup just finished eps 10-12 so that's another series down, and i can see myself rewatching it a few times as well. Got a good amount of laughs from it Now to get ahold of The Second Raid...
EDIT: Yup just finished eps 10-12 so that's another series down, and i can see myself rewatching it a few times as well. Got a good amount of laughs from it
Now to get ahold of The Second Raid...
Aion
Time-Traveller
I'm up to episode 28 of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Only 82 episodes to go, as well as another 50 episodes in prequels and a few films. Will I survive until the end? Only Allah knows such things.
Despite its length and the silly amount of characters involved, some of whom only appear for one episode, it's wonderful stuff. So wonderful in fact that, despite the jaw dropping length, I'm going to rewactch episodes 1-28 before moving on. I get the feeling more will sink in the secind time around - I'll know the characters from the off, and I'll hopefully pick up a few extra details here and there as a result.
The only things I dislike about LotGH are the silly amount of characters, complete with hard to remember names (Dirkin von Yerkinho) and varying ranks, and the space battle sequences. Because of a combination of the series age and the video quality, I struggle to see what's going on during the battles, only understanding what's shown on the tactical screens during battles. I almost wish there was some easy to follow mecha combat, but that would've made the story less serious, and that wouldn't have been good when the story is as adult as they come.
Despite its length and the silly amount of characters involved, some of whom only appear for one episode, it's wonderful stuff. So wonderful in fact that, despite the jaw dropping length, I'm going to rewactch episodes 1-28 before moving on. I get the feeling more will sink in the secind time around - I'll know the characters from the off, and I'll hopefully pick up a few extra details here and there as a result.
The only things I dislike about LotGH are the silly amount of characters, complete with hard to remember names (Dirkin von Yerkinho) and varying ranks, and the space battle sequences. Because of a combination of the series age and the video quality, I struggle to see what's going on during the battles, only understanding what's shown on the tactical screens during battles. I almost wish there was some easy to follow mecha combat, but that would've made the story less serious, and that wouldn't have been good when the story is as adult as they come.
Aion
Time-Traveller
Zin5ki said:
Yes, indeed.
Going on what's said in the thread above, it was once on the verge of getting a complete boxed set release, holding all 160+ episodes. But, before licensing it, a company involved wanted at least 1500 people who'd commit to paying $1700 for the collection. And, of course, very few people want to or are able to pay that sort of money in one go for an anime box set.
Since the Japanese license holders won't allow the set to be sold for cmuch cheaper than it sold in Japan and it's far too long (and old) to air on TV, there's little chance of it ever making it outside of Japan. We in the west are lucky that Central-Anime subbed the entire series, and even released DVD-rips of 1-16.