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>>82
>Oberstein's dog is very cute. :3
There, now we all can understand you.

Might as well bump this thread than start a new one (even if it is kinda shitposty....). I finished LOGH recently (currently on the OVA's) and was honestly surprised by it since I expected to like it but not this much. I remember trying to get into the series three times (once in 2015, 2016 and in 2017) only to give up multiple times. I'm not sure what exactly pushed me to go back and finish it but for some reason it just....clicked with me from episode 1 and I really loved it. A shame I was spoiled on two deaths due to my poor timing in finally watching it, when they hit I didn't feel that much which was a shame.

I feel it does hold up to being a fantastic anime and is worth the hype (with a grain of salt) but does suffer from some pacing issue and the amount of names that are thrown at you that you're sort of expected to remember but beyond that I really found it quite intriguing. Watching it made me actually question how I view things like democracy and autocracy since I always believe whatever makes the people happy is the best course of action and that democracy should be the default but this anime really goes through the faults of both sides and made me rethink a lot of aspects of democracy and autocracy.

I do feel that it made the Alliance too likeable, not to say that the Empire was awful but I just found myself enjoying the episodes spent with Yang and his crew over Reinhardt and his subordinates, plus there was a great underdog feeling with them so a lot of the battles they would fight truly felt like their last whereas with the empire they were just using their superior numbers to destroy the opposition which didn't feel as interesting most of the time.

Terra also felt really weird as a faction, they seemed too strong for a bunch of religious fanatics on Earth and their goal just seemed unrealistic and Rubinsky was similar, he just seemed like he wanted to be an evil dick right up until the end. I guess they both fulfilled their goal of being a dangerous third party when needed for the story and that was their point.

Also, another anime I absolutely adore is Irresponsible Captain Tylor and watching LOGH really showed me just how much of a parody that show as meant to be of this which actually made me appreciate both shows more. I truly wonder how Tylor would fair against Reinhardt.

I imagine conversation has been done to death over the decades so I hope people are still willing to give some opinions and insight for this anime.

>>240
all i know about it are the memes, what you wrote sounds quite inticing, i think i will actually give it a shot, thanks for that.

>>241
Glad I could give you some drive to watch it, anon. I just gave my honest opinion in my post and didn't expect anyone to really say anything, so I'm happy someone might watch this just from a post I made on wapchan.

I will say that it is boring at the start and you will have to give it your full attention but once you're in the groove it becomes quite an interesting show that's worth the score it has.

>>242
i dont have a problem with slowburn when its well made and so far it sounds quite interesting.

>>240
Might as well bump again to discuss the OVA's. Finished them last week and I liked them although not as much as the main series. I did find it odd how they were ordered, two different OVA's that spread out the story over 6-7 years and each episode arc is ALSO spread out. How to rearrange them myself to be in order so it would naturally flow better.

A real shame how once again Yang (and the Alliance in general) was shafted for more Reinhard time. I guess it's nice to see more of Kircheis but after forcibly seeing how incredible Reinhard was for the entire series I'd rather spend some time with people like Yang, Dusty, Julian, Poplin, Kircheis, Mittermeyer and such. They all feel like they had less than half the screentime of Reinhard and it's odd to just give him episodes to show us that he is as incredible as we have been shown before.

I'd say my favourite part of the OVA was Yang's arc, the 14 episodes of growing up, saving El Facil, the history of the 730 Mafia, the prison and how it all ended was really interesting and exciting. It's a real shame his whole OVA couldn't have been Yang on this adventure and meeting up with more people but I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed a lot of Reinhard's arcs as well, such as when Reinhard mutinied on their sole ship to save them from an Alliance patrol, the Ice planet episode and the episode about the defecting noble's daughter. The Kirchies detective episode was surprisingly interesting to watch as well and was a breath of fresh air to see him by himself for such a long period of time.

I do wonder how it'd feel watching the OVA before the main series. It's a prequel so you wouldn't really get spoiled on much outside a few narrator spoilers, so a lot of the episodes would feel a lot more *tense* as you may not know who will die or not. I guess it'd be a lot more boring as you wouldn't be as invested in the characters but you could at least see how amazing Reinhard was for the first time, instead of the 50th.

I'm not sure what people think of the OVA's since I rarely see them discussed with the main series, so hopefully this bump might add *some* discussion to the board.

>>237
Sieg Kaiser Reinhard!
Sieg Neues Reich!

>>240
>>244
Sorry to correct you here, anon, but both the main 110-episode series and the Gaiden series are OVAs. The main series has never been on TV (afaik) and was made specifically to be released on home-video.
>I remember trying to get into the series three times (once in 2015, 2016 and in 2017) only to give up multiple times.
I gave it a try many years ago too, but it was only recently that I started to appreciate older anime more, that I gave it another chance, and it became one of my favorite anime ever, if not my absolute favorite. Frankly, I didn't want it to be over by the time I reached the last episode.
As for the Gaiden series, I've downloaded most of the episodes, but haven't watched any of them for various reasons.
>another anime I absolutely adore is Irresponsible Captain Tylor and watching LOGH really showed me just how much of a parody that show as meant to be of this
Thanks for the recommendation, although just by reading about it, I'm not sure that it was meant to be a parody of LoGH specifically, or at least not many people have noticed. It would be hilarious if it turns out to be true, though. I have also noticed some possible influences of LoGH in other Japanese media after watching it.

>>241
I hope you watched, and liked it. I'm always happy to see more people watching it for the first time after so many years. Despite it being so common in pretentious 3x3 threads, it's a genuine masterpiece. I mean, it does come from a novel (not a light novel) so the writing quality in LoGH is obviously superior to the average anime, in my opinion.

>>246
>the writing quality in LoGH is obviously superior to the average anime, in my opinion.
its so far beyond other anime its not even funny

sometimes i almost wish it wasnt so thick
every time i get going on trying to watch the whole series, some irl bullshit always happens, a few months will go by, then ill either lose my place or just forget everything that was going on which sucks since theres all kinds of subtle/sub-plot stuff going on at all times
certainly not a series you can just sit down and only watch a few episodes at a time of

really is on a whole other level tho

>>246
>but both the main 110-episode series and the Gaiden series are OVAs.
Yeah I know, I was just trying to bump this thread by saying "Oh,yeah I watched the spinoffs" so I wasn't really thinking about it much. I thought it'd be easier to just call them "OVA" and "Main Series". Force of habit I guess after watching a lot of older shows that usually have a main TV series and an OVA spinoff.

>As for the Gaiden series, I've downloaded most of the episodes, but haven't watched any of them for various reasons.
It was released in a very odd order, you may want to look up a chronological series of events for each so the episodes flow better when you eventually watch it.

>Thanks for the recommendation,
No problem, I'd say it's my favourite anime. I remember falling in love with it during the climax of the 4th episode where I laughed for 10 seconds straight at how it played out.

>Although just by reading about it, I'm not sure that it was meant to be a parody of LoGH specifically, or at least not many people have noticed.
I can't fully remember how I came to that conclusion, but I do remember translating the Japanese wikipedia page and I believe it was mentioned there. Not sure if you can trust a ">translated wikipedia page" for information (it's also mentioned on the fan wiki for Captain Tylor, but again, hard to trust information), but when I was watching LOGH I just saw a lot of comparisons. According to English wikipedia, it's based off a movie called "Japan's Irresponsible Age" from 1962 which is quite similar, but there are quite a decent amount of comparisons you can make for both, plus Tylor's light novel came out 2 years after LOGH's ended.

Tylor is meant to be like Yang, albeit, a hell of a lot more easy going and downright lucky. Working for the "United Planets Space Force" and pretty much joining it for reasons that aren't relating to wanting to fight in battles but being exceptional in the battles he fights. Leading the people around him having no idea if it's dumb luck or incredible genius he plays off as dumb luck. Whereas his main rival opponent is Ru Baraba Dom who is a commander in the Raalgon empire, has long hair, is pretty damn serious a majority of the time and sees Tylor as someone who is incredibly powerful and someone he needs to defeat for the empire to win the fight against the UPSF. (It's been a while since I watched it, I can't fully remember the Raalgon empire's background)

It's a shame the anime only deals with a small part of Tylor's life as the light novels (which are COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT when I looked into them) pretty much detail his whole career. Since anime Tylor is a lot more likeable than light novel Tylor (who was described as an ugly, 30+ year old lolicon loving commander) it's a real shame we'll probably never see more of anime Tylor again. I also enjoyed the dub as blasphemous as that sounds, Tylor really sounds like a laid back idiot in that.

But yeah, bit of a sidetrack. Give it a watch when you can, anon. It's a great show.