The beginner's guide to Legend of the Galactic Heroes

[kajornwan]

This post is in order because until my entire f-list starts watching this best anime ever made I find it my responsibility to keep the world informed. So if you have been brainwashed by my marketing attempt and are interested to watch now or some time later, here is the guide which you will need (that I wished I had when I started).

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[delwynmarch]

I actually have a feeling Kircheis was suggesting a 3some when he was talking about Yang with Reinhard on that bench XDDD

Which in retrospect makes me LMAO, because I absolutely see Yang as either asexual or simply too lazy to bother with sex :D So him participating in a threesome? Pfft, never gonna happen unless the other two guys are doing all the work while he lies on his back, stares at the ceiling, and philosophies about something or other. (And then Kircheis looks up from where he's blowing Yang, smiles at him with those huge innocent eyes and dazzling smile, and comments softly on whatever philosophical shit Yang just said, before going back to licking his cock. And they go on like that all through the whole thing, including Reinhard curtly but politely disagreeing with Yang as he puts Yang's feet on his - Reinhard's - shoulders and unceremoniously starts plowing his ass... BY THE NAME OF ODIN, WHAT IS THIS ANIME DOING TO MY BRAIN D: !???! )

It tells you no matter how much he loves Annerose, he is never going to go *there* because his loyalty and friendship towards Reinhard goes beyond his own pitiful feelings.

She wouldn't accept it anyway, for the exact same reason: Reinhard comes first. She "gave" Kircheis to Reinhard all those years ago, long before she could imagine she might one day regret it, but she would never come back on it. She would send Kircheis straight back to Reinhard's side if he said anything. Which, uh, is rather beautifully tragic when I look at it this way =_=

It's really cruel just how much he stresses the flaws and stupidity of the human race from start to finish.

It's cruel, yes, but, well, it's his whole point, isn't it?

I guess you could say it's still his accomplishment but I think the point Tanaka Yoshiki was trying to make, is as Yang said, people as a whole have a tendency to follow someone great, not an ideal. And that, is precisely the problem with the world, isn't it?

Yep. Instead of knowing what they want and fighting for it, most people will just glomp onto whichever person dazzles them most at the moment. The end result is that there's no sustained direction, no actual goal, and so, unavoidably, everything goes to shit sooner or later.

Mind you, it's not like this is any kind of secret message or anything: it's right there from the very, very beginning. Yang became an admiral because he accidentally dazzled people all the time, starting all the way back when he became "the hero of El Facil" for simply doing what he considered his job both as an army officer and a human being.

Right from the beginning, Yang has accidentally become one of those people the masses glomp onto, and he spends his entire time trying to tell them that this is a Very Bad Idea. So, yeah, quite an obvious theme throughout the series :D