I'm starting to slowly work my way through the Legend of the Galactic Heroes and this show goes so hard.
Yang hates his fucking job. He gets a half-assed promotion and is expected to work miracles.
The liberal democracy faction in the war has a fascist paramilitary at the president's command lmao
Space anime for history dads - such a mood.
The animation is gorgeous, too.
I'm sure I'll be sick of this shit after 100 episodes of it, but I'm living for it now lol.
This show is such a fucking hate watch for me. Space Napoleonic wars that has a episode which is just 30 minutes of history channel just barely clears the "what if fash is good though" jack off fantasy the whole thing is.
Can we get a LotGH sub, so I have an excuse to re-watch fash propaganda and rant about it online, and learn ways a space napoleon story could be made better by people who actually know Napoleonic history?
The show's title is basically Great Man Theory ~in Space~, so I'm already expecting some "what if the space Prussians were the good guys, but they just have the wrong dictator" shit.
I was having such a hard time putting a name to the style of history they were doing. Is that really the name for it? It really is aggravating in the show and so lazily explained why all events depend on like two people.
The main styles I pick up are Great Man Theory (history is pushed by those who are born great) and Whig History (liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of civilization).
If you were hoping for systems based explanations, those go against the ideology of GMT & Whig history
Also if that annoys you then imagine this, Whig history is the primary lens the Anglo-sphere teaches/uses (hence the whole end of history comment)
I believe so, but I don't have any academic experience in history so take that with a grain of salt.
It's aggravating to me when people do it with modern and contemporary history. I think I have a bit more tolerance when it has fantasy elements or enough focus on the melodrama.
I'll probably be sick of LotGH after dozens of episodes, but I'm hopeful that I'll enjoy it enough stretched out over a year or two lol
ideology aside there was only one thing I found really annoying
mild spoiler
If only Kircheis was here
I stg that becomes the catchphrase for the second half of the show. If all these inbred Prussian fucks would fucking eat a slice of humble pie and stop worrying about their useless pride so much melodrama and death would be avoided.
Someone here made a good point in a thread a while ago, but it's fun to imagine the show as an in-universe historical drama. That way it makes sense why such a small cast is so responsible for great change, why they sidestep that Reinhardt was definitely gay for Kircheis, etc. Same reason why the 30 minute history session goes on about "moral degradation" in the pre-empire government: because this is a universe where the fascists won, so their propaganda is official.
But yeah in reality the author is definitely a lib and it shows.