The war is fully shown from the side of the commanding officers - one of only a very few shows to do so - and does show an appropriate sense of scale. Within the happenings of the show, it becomes apparent that, militarily speaking, at least, a good autocracy has an edge over democracy in terms of speed and decisiveness, and this shows in how the series progresses.Ī large part of the series is devoted to showing the war and its subsequent smaller-scale rumblings. This question is the age-old one of which is better, autocracy or democracy, the problem being that a good autocracy is usually better than a good democracy, but a bad autocracy being worse than a bad democracy. More importantly, the main question on which the whole series hinges remains an open one. First of all, the heroes do have a sense of their own importance, but also the sense to question whether they are all that special, or whether the circumstances of their times have just brought them to a spotlight which people equal to them could never have aimed at. It sounds like your average hero of freedom-versus-tyrant story, but it turns out to be anything but. Both men surround themselves with able staff, who become legends in their own right. This balance is shattered when a military genius with a far-reaching ambition rises on the Imperial side, prompting the Alliance to, somewhat grudgingly, give ever greater backing to the most capable officer on their own side. The series is set in a future wherein the universe known to man is divided into two camps, the aristocratic and absolutist Galactic Empire, and the democratic Free Planets' Alliance, who have been embroiled in a war for some time, seeminglyīeing evenly matched. That is to say, heroic in a very classical sense, being possibly a negative thing as well as a positive. Legend of the Galactic Heroes centers around - you guessed it - a bunch of people who, according to populace at large that inhabits the fictional future this series plays in, are of heroic proportions. What it has, though, is a sense of scale that's unsurpassed in any anime - or, for that matter, any television show - I've seen. In fact, there's absolutely nothing in this series that is wholly unexpected or very deep.
Nor does it delve deeply into some obscure theory of science or arts, bombarding the viewer with ideas he couldn't have come up with himself. When I say 'intelligent', I don't mean it to be cunning, surprising the viewer with unsuspected plot
Which is a shame, as it's only after about 20 episodes that this series progresses from something that is slow, somewhat overly bombastic, and hinting at more to come to show itself to be one of the most intelligent pieces of anime that's been made to date. That is to say, with 110 episodes, your vote only counts after you've seen 22 episodes, almost a full season, and those who don't like this show probably won't wait for 22 episodes to decide.
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