De interpretatione LOGH.
Summer can be bad for your brains. Since we've finished with out Terra e...project, we ( I mean the main 4 people responsible for it, myself included obviously) decided we could very well keep walking on the same track, and instead of choosing a lighter, summer-friendly and little-known sci-fi series (which I won't mention because uhm, we may end up subbing that one as well XD), jumped on the LOGH train.
If you don't know exactly what LOGH stands for, there you go: Legend Of the Galactic Heroes (also Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu or Gin'ei Den , or Legend von Kosmosinsel depending on which language/translation spectrum you occupy).
In short it's a looong space soap opera running for something like 160 episodes (including original series and Gaiden )and a couple of movies , just in case they forgot to narrate trivial tidbits in the series :P.
This monster, as it's often been called, is something of a taboo in the Italian fansub sphere, or at least, that's the feeling I got from endless discussions about it, that generally degenerate into open flames. But that's another thing.
Anyway, as I was saying we decided to give it a try (a serious one actually XD)and sub it: we're starting from a Tv special called Golden Wings (Ougon no Tsubasa), centred on the childhood of the two main characters (on the Empire side).It's a much debated movie because it was made in 1992, before the Gaiden were produced, and chose to use a character design more faithful to the original novel (and derived manga) designs, and also uses a different cast from the series (arguably because Rein and Kircheis were still kids and using the same seiyuu they had in the series [as 20-year-olds and going old from there :P] woul've been a little strange).
I was basically dragged into the project due to the HUUUUGE (did I say HUUUUGE) BL factor the series has (and Golden Wings is very much the epitome of it XD).I'm that shallow, I admit :D.
I still don't know much about the series' content because we're doing it backwards, from Gaiden (that is, the side stories of the characters) to the central series, but it's a space opera with lovely old-style design and plot dvelopment and that's all I nedd. Ah, much BL, did I mention *_*.
It's going to be difficult and long , especially if we won't find capable translators: translating GW was a pain because of the strained audio and extremely questionable Englishese (Chinglish?:P) subs, so i had to do it all on my own, and withut a Japanese script it's very next to impossible,but still...Ganbarimasu!!
-On another note I also got the new Red Garden manga volumes...expect fangirling rant about it later XD-
If you don't know exactly what LOGH stands for, there you go: Legend Of the Galactic Heroes (also Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu or Gin'ei Den , or Legend von Kosmosinsel depending on which language/translation spectrum you occupy).
In short it's a looong space soap opera running for something like 160 episodes (including original series and Gaiden )and a couple of movies , just in case they forgot to narrate trivial tidbits in the series :P.
This monster, as it's often been called, is something of a taboo in the Italian fansub sphere, or at least, that's the feeling I got from endless discussions about it, that generally degenerate into open flames. But that's another thing.
Anyway, as I was saying we decided to give it a try (a serious one actually XD)and sub it: we're starting from a Tv special called Golden Wings (Ougon no Tsubasa), centred on the childhood of the two main characters (on the Empire side).It's a much debated movie because it was made in 1992, before the Gaiden were produced, and chose to use a character design more faithful to the original novel (and derived manga) designs, and also uses a different cast from the series (arguably because Rein and Kircheis were still kids and using the same seiyuu they had in the series [as 20-year-olds and going old from there :P] woul've been a little strange).
I was basically dragged into the project due to the HUUUUGE (did I say HUUUUGE) BL factor the series has (and Golden Wings is very much the epitome of it XD).I'm that shallow, I admit :D.
I still don't know much about the series' content because we're doing it backwards, from Gaiden (that is, the side stories of the characters) to the central series, but it's a space opera with lovely old-style design and plot dvelopment and that's all I nedd. Ah, much BL, did I mention *_*.
It's going to be difficult and long , especially if we won't find capable translators: translating GW was a pain because of the strained audio and extremely questionable Englishese (Chinglish?:P) subs, so i had to do it all on my own, and withut a Japanese script it's very next to impossible,but still...Ganbarimasu!!
-On another note I also got the new Red Garden manga volumes...expect fangirling rant about it later XD-