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.
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.