⚠️ FOR PEOPLE who wonder what the anime is called: it's LAST EXILE. It's written all over the description, in the video, and in the video title. ⚠ FOR PEOPLE who wonder why the battle is unfolding that way: There's a faction called the Guild, which acts as the "referee" in each battle between Anatoray (green ships) and Disith (white ships). The Guild imposes a strict way of doing battle, including useless battlelines, small arm fire before artillery exchange, only firing at certain times, etc. This is why in the first third of the video, sometimes enemy ships do not fire at each other despite being next to each other. In the second part of this battle, Disith (the white ships) actually break the rules and attack with a second fleet from above, against "regulation" imposed by the Guild, forcing the green ships into a retreat. The Guild doesn't intervene, because it has an agenda of its own. This is when all guns start blazing like hell, as no side feels constraint by any regulation anymore. The ships are designed the way they are because the Anatoray military knows that Disith ships will always come from above, so Anatoray turrets are placed on top of the ships, and conversely, Disith ships have their turrets installed beneath their hull.
@@atroxiv their ships can fly only thanks to the guild power units which they can recall just because they feel so. Thus they are forced to either adhere to the rules or risk sudden "sinking". Later in the story actually Anatoray develop new experimental battleships with homemade propulsion unit, which can do whatever they wants to
Same. I saw it in 2011 and I was blown away by the general feel of this anime. I loved the Anatoray ships. Now I love airships in general. You don't see too many in games/movies sadly
@@koopanique I saw this as they aired in Japan (fansubs of course) and I was hooooooooked immediately. The follow up series Pan SilverFang wasn't very good tho
@@FinancialFaiz I liked Fam The Silver Wing, it really takes off in the second half of the show, but it's true that it's not as good ad the first season
That's on purpose. It's dieselpunk, like steam punk and atompunk (fallout games) but it is how people between 1905 and 1944 viewed the future . Very rare genre besides maybe bioshock
Dreadnaughts fire for several miles away Best the other term you’re looking for is 17th and 18th Century warfare pacifically naval but this reminds me of modern day with the guided missiles
This anime's story goes like this : Earth was rekt'd some thousand years ago and humans fled using interstellar ships called "Exiles" (there are still humans that stayed on the Earth and they harbored resentment towards the refugees when the said refugees returned, basically the plot of Last Exile : Fam, the Silver Wing)... These "Exiles" somewhat created another Earth and in this anime, that world was called Prester, which is shaped like an hourglass... The northern part of this so-called new world was called Disith (Greek for sunset iirc) and the southern part was called Anatoray (Greek for sunrise iirc) with the thin median in the middle is a turbulent wind stream called Grand Stream (which hides this world's Exile and the location of the main Guild ship, an arbitrary faction)... Now, since their Exile was under some sort of hibernation, it cannot make the world's weather system stable, hence, Disith experiences perpetual snowstorm and Anatoray desertification (still a livable one though)... This scenario explains the ship designs : Reparation-class ships (Disith ships / White ships as this comment section calls it) : This ships were shaped as an hourglass to cross the Grand Stream from above, aerodynamics go bbbrrrrttttt so let us not question that... In line with that, their turrets are situated on the underside of the ships... Claiomh-Solais class / Anatoray ships / Green ships as the comment section calls it : the exact opposite of the Reparation-class ships... They have their turrets on the upper side and are not "streamlined" because they were not crossing the Grand Stream to invade Disith territories... The Armillary Sphere-looking ship / Guild Prescence ship : like the name implies, it is the ship of the Guild that "oversees" the battle as an arbiter, though the Guild's leader, Maestro Delphine, have something in mind other than upholding fairness... Btw, both Disith and Anatoray ships use the Guild-provided Claudia units, some sort of anti-gravity engine with a Guild engineer inside... If one of the factions committed something that doesn't follow Guild regulations, their Claudia units will be "recalled" (ie literally force-eject itself from the ship), effectively sinking the ship in which it was situated... Silvana (the Black ship as everyone calls it) : is an experimental Anatoray ship fitted with the thickest plot armor-- I mean armor plating, gunpowder cannons (later added though), Vanship squadrons (I freakin' love Tatiana and Alister) and epicness... Basically, the Third Battle of Minagith is just Disith trying to get a territory because their homeland isn't livable anymore... Boy, I did tear up a bit when Disith tubular-shaped ships ladden with civilians got destroyed before taking off........
Ανατολή/Δύση (Anatoli/Disi) in Greek is sunrise and sunset, but also east and west. The Japanese can't spell "L" so they make it "R" instead. It is common to foreign words in Japanese if i remember well.
If I remember correctly, Disith's territory going frozen is a manipulation from Delphine : she jeopardized the stream between the two territories, rendering Anatoray arid and Disith cold using the weather control and the Great Stream of their Prester. The Guild is present on all Presters and on Earth, it's a far more advanced civilization tasked to take care of (normally) those said Presters..... Also it's not very clear if these pocket worlds are in the solar system or not, but I think they are, otherwise it wouldn't make any sense to create artificial worlds as it would be """simpler""" to travel to stars that have terraformable worlds.... But lets say a civilization able to build Presters and not able to repair Earth is not very credible.
"From the Depths" game can recreate this madness of a fight. Heavy airships are the staple design aesthetic for the Gray Talons faction inside the game. From heavy close in flying warship to a long range sharp shooting warship. Everything is fully armored and would take a heavy amount of beating before going down. Ship building in the game has a steep learning curve especially if you are planning to recreate the airships. The PID is your bestfriend in 3D maneuvers. Engine design, armor layout, or gun emplacements would take a long time to get to. 500hrs in game is just entry level. The guns have a different flavor of building too. From slow ass firing to rapid firing, needle guns or high caliber, low velocity or lazer like velocity, explosive or piercing, you decide! Lasers are also an option as well as missiles for the "macross missile masaacre" trope.
While I haven't played it myself, Highfleet also has an incredibly steep learning curve being a pure airship game that I think captures this kind of stuff quite well.
I love how the white ships have no top guns cuz the enemy can’t fly high enough for them to be needed and the green ships have top guns but no bottom guns cuz their enemy is always above
Indeed, Anatoray battleships (the green ones) know that their enemy will almost always come from above because of the weird way the world in this anime is set up, so the mount their guns on top
If I remember correctly it is revealed in the final that the entire series takes place in a giant space station shaped like a spinning hour-glass, and the two nations that are fighting are situated on opposite ends. I believe the reason the white fleet is attacking is that the environmental control machinery on their end is breaking down and causing the entire side to slowly freeze, so they are desperately trying to forcibly migrate to the other side where things are still mostly OK.
@@koopanique it does show some guns in ventral turrets being used though. i like how they develop Carrier strike groups at the end to finally wreck the prigs who control all the technology.
I remember getting into anime when this first came out (and it was in a BLOCKBUSTER!) and I got the entire DVD set of the first season, me and my friends had a great night binge watching this show and loving the story of aerial wars and control in a steam punk style anime! still rewatch these from time to time, very underrated show
Ah, Last Exile. It been many years (if not more than a decade) since I watch this. What I really love about this anime is the flying battleships, they are really fascinating to see in action. While not as good as the first season Fam of the Silverwing does have some cool ships design.
Aye. It really is a long time of having seen this masterpiece of Steam/dieselpunk style anime. Really inspirational airships, what made me to try design flying ships onto paper. I saw this anime back when there was a TV channel for sciencefiction (in Finland atleast), what also aired a few anime series (Last Exile, Deathnote, Evangelion). Last Exile was so good in my eyes to get the whole series on DVD.
This looks really cool, though I have no idea what's happening. The airships seem to be built in strangely complimentary fashion. The green one mount most of their weapons up top, while the white ones mount their weapons on the underside. I can't say as there's any problem with it, though. But I guess if I was designing an airship and I had to choose, I'd go with the green ships' design. Seems the white ships have a lot to lose if they can't maintain the high ground.
They are built because the white ships, to arrive, must decend from the sky, so they tactically were designed around firing downward upon the Anatoray ships. (the ones in green) As a result, the anatoray ships are mostly top mounted guns to counter this, and generally are much heavyer armored and armed.
It is exactly as Carrack090 said. Anatoray (the green ships) know that Disith (the white ships) always arrive from above, because of the weird way this world is set up, so they design their ships with guns mounted on top
Just moving away from the fact where there is up and down. Until 01:30, both fleets fight according to specific rules, reminiscent of the linear battle tactics of sailing battleships. From 1:40 the rules are violated by the White side and they put the second fleet into action, but it's not just the effect of surprise. The green ships are more of a Pre-dreadnought battleship design, while the white ones are more like a dreadnought type battleship. White guns have more long-range guns of larger caliber, the total number of guns may be less than on Green ships, but they are grouped into four turrets each with three main caliber guns. At 1:10 we see that this does not give White an advantage while ships are forced to line up, White ships can only use 2 turrets on one side. At 3:17, on the contrary, there is another characteristic moment, due to the fact that the Green ships are not in the battle line, they can use only one bow turret, while the Whites use all their firepower, a volley from each of the four turrets is clearly visible from each ship. To be effective, the Greens need to reorganize, since the guns of their ships are on board, i.e. line up, but it remains in question whether the range of their guns will be enough. And the Greens physically do not have time to do this. That is, once again, it's not only an ambush, but a more advanced design of the White ships. The "Guild" is watching everything from above. From the perspective of their superior technology, it must be very amusing and interesting for them to see how the stages of shipbuilding they know and go through are repeated in the design of the faction airships. The creator of this anime is very passionate about the history of aviation and shipbuilding, being in post-war Japan, the memory of the huge leap that the Japanese Empire made in creating its navy according to the Western model was very strong.
Fantastic anime and one of my favorite settings in all of fiction. The story doesn't nail the landing in the last few episodes but its still a must watch.
Also one point should be mentioned is that every single ship except the black battleship that solo the white fleet had their engines unit supplied by the Guild, you can see the box that detatches when a ship is destroyed, thats the power plant of the ship that was crewed by the Guild and was essentially a black box for people of both nation, thats why the Guild is the arbitor and why they decide how battles should be fought, because if one side decided to go aginst the Guild, the Guild could just yeet all the power plants from their military and they are pretty much f**ked.
I love how none of this, including the rituallistic sacrifice of musketeers, is explained to the viewer until the show is almost over. Sure, they can keep blatant noncompliance with guild regulations a secret for a while, but some idea about guild units and the shape of the dual plannet system would have been helpful.
This show was the first time I grew interested in the musical scores and soundtracks of anime. It’s music is mostly orchestral, but now I pay attention to music on all shows, and I’ve since amassed enough anime j-pop to call it a “collection”
Saw this today with "1.3m views 3y ago" I'm so glad so many people saw this anime and still enjoying it after getting released more than a decade ago! This is my childhood anime❤
First time seeing this and love seeing sky battles above the clouds the great white sea. As far I can tell based on the designs. Green Airship: built for broadside battles due to how the guns are placed at the top in two roads and a single gun at the front. The cannons appears to have 50° degrees to 70° degrees of arc fire letting them hit targets above, but at a distance. Side armor are heavy to tank as much damage, but vulnerable top and underbelly. There are signs of AA guns and hangers for aircraft support. Uses large thrusters in the rear underbelly for speed and altitude, but given how slow it is it may not provide higher altitude support due to energy to waight demand. White Airship: Built for speed and maneuverability due to a light skeletal design lacking the need of heavy armor and using an hour glass shape as the base. Heavy rotating guns are at rear & front taking up the bottom half as smaller guns & AA are used in the Skeletal frame. Designed for high altitude ambushes as an counter for the green ships, but depends on large numbers for proper kills. Black Airship: It's a submarine and its awesome. Final note: Cool battle and looking forward to watch the anime for fighter action.
Nope... Disith fleets are that way cause they emisphere is on a blizzard cold state, ane even more armored ships might couse them to lost control on the ship, also the storm betweeen both emispheres is also hard to travel, they are invading Anatorai so they need to cross the storm, also, the lack of resources to build or even mantain they citizens lead them to build more ships with less materials like a heavy cover, they build the ships just to fly and shoot, also the lack of meals or a site to come back is the reazon to them to not follow rules, they have no option as chivalry, to them is win or die... that's implicit at the anime...
It's way wierder than that. You see, the combatants are actually a bunch of primitives who are renting their floaty units from a bunch of alien looking guys called the guild. To prevent damage to the guild units, the guild forces both sides to shoot at each other with muskets (as opposed to machine guns and repeating rifles, which would be a threat to the guild unit security team) until a specified number of people die per ship. Once the quota is met, they can bring out the big guns. The guys in the green ships assume that any fight will start from broadside point blank because the alternative is getting your guild unit jettisoned and falling to your death. The white ship guys and the guild have other ideas.
I like how both nations have really different designs but both have a flaw large flaw that each side exploits. -Whites have heavier fire and better speed, but at the cost of spindly ships with a very prominent weak point in the center. -Greens have more guns and seem to be much better armored but are pretty slow and present a massive target if they show broadside.
The problem is, Claimh Solais and Reparation carried over several hundreds of musketeers. When the ship is going down, it's just a functionless sinking cage for them. R.I.P
A decade later I still find this show magnificent, no need for silly looking or overreacting characters, no need for fanservice... Just a well developed and convincing world, Even this show could had better storytelling if the amount of chapters were not reduced, I wanted to know more of the other side Disith and bigger battles...I have found different and interesting anime shows, but none as good and so engaging like this one
This might help you, if you wanna check out similar worlds to this one you could search up dieselpunk and check out other works that have the same taste as this one.
Interesting! I didn't remember those (I watched Space Battleship Yamato 2199 a few years ago, but the Karakrum ships didn't strike me as much) Honestly I can see how the colors is similar, but the Last Exile ships look a lot less "slick" and more industrially crude, hence why I find them more unique-looking
I think I enjoy a lot how airships will slowly go down once taken out instead of a fast descend. Idk why, I find it weirdly amusing. Not sure if one irl would go down very slowly, tho, which makes it more curious to me.
I suppose it would be dependent on the extent of the damages, and the scale/distance of the event may make it look like its falling slower than it actually is (think how fast a car passing close to you seems when compared to one in the distance).
beautiful video. no idea what's going on, so here's my observation: White ships: "It's over, green fleet. we have the high ground." Green ships: "You underestimate our power!" White ships: "Don't try it!"
@@koopanique ah, yea the re-release on blu-ray used the same source as the dvd collection with some filters and editing to bring the resolution and general fidelity up hence the jagged edges on the poles jutting out from the airships in some scenes. I've been trying to use various video upscalers but it takes literal days to convert and tends to crash often.
Not sure why all ships have 'just war' written in Greek on their prow, or why they are maneuvring as if they were 18th century ships of the line, but i approve.
Even the first time I watched this, I couldn't get over how absurd the whole thing was. A great example of "I want this in my story but can't be bothered to fully consider the ramifications of the technology thoroughly."
@@koopanique I don't remember much about the movies because most of them are in Japanese, where I live, it's an audio version into the local language but it's hard to remember. About the recent movies I've watched a lot, maybe the war content you can refer to the series "Yukikaze" or "The Cockpit", "GINGA EIYUU DENSETSU" themed about planes, spaceships and more
@@tvk9030 Ah yes, I've seen Yukikaze years ago, and I've seen Legend of the Galactic heroes too of course (awesome space battles and characters in this anime), I've heard of "In the cockpit" but I still haven't seen it...
as someone who know a good amount of irl ships, i find it ironic that they have turreted guns (which btw can turn) but decided that they should go point blank and fight like the Ships of the Line, show the most broadside possible to the attacker i know its anime, but i just found it interesting
A more likely scenario would be an aircraft carrier supported by smaller vessels. But I think they went with this for the silly game mindset culture among the leaders. You wouldn't broadside when you know 1 fighter can down a battleship with a single bomb.
@@fogbattleshipyamato9173well i think in the anime the engine they use to fly is created by the super power faction (3rd faction) so this 3rd faction control the "rules" of war... if they dont like it... they turn off the engine... and yeet the ship out of they sky
as mentioned already, there's a powerful third faction, who controls the engines of these ships. So they set the rules, that's why ships fight like ships of the line. You can think of them as the Spacing Guild in Dune if you're familiar with it, who provides the space navigators allowing the different factions to travel in space. Also not shown here, there's also a sort of line infantry battle that happens while the ships pass each other. A section of a ship will open with a line infantry and will shoot the infantry at the other ship. Won't spoil much, later in the show, these ships would fight like what you would expect them to with their design.
Ships and aircrafts are flying suspended in the air because of "Claudia" substance that evaporated into particles by high thermal energy can ability to float and propulse the vehicle by steam or other methods to fly the vehicle.
The white ships seem a bizarre design choice. They have that glaring structural weakness that any enemy could, and does take advantage of here. The whole thing breaks in two.
yes but they have no option, their nation lacks in materials, or even food, so they are forced to build ships with what they have as fast as posible, also it helps to guide their ships on the continued heavy blizzard at their country
Also a good story! A simple courier's mission ends up being a fight to control a planet. You have no idea what is going on for half the series. And Dio is so weird he is cool. Has arguably the most satisfying revenge/ payback scene in anime. No over the top big fight or expounding for five minutes how evil the antagonist is. Just "crunch".
I pity the poor bastards UNLUCKY enough to be caught up in the fight on the ground! How many shots missed?! And don't forget exploded ship wrecks and debris crashing into the ground!
Ok, this maybe a fire anime and all, but I cant fathom how anyone would think it could be a good idea to turn airships into literal battleships. A Squadron of Propeller Fighters, presumably with 30mm tankbuster guns, would make easy work of this whole column.
Nope, what a propeller fighter can do against a sea battleship? those ships are heavy armored like a regular sea battleship... it looks fragile between them.. but they are not... those guns are not made with gunpowder... there is no sulfure at that world.. all guns are based on presured steam.. all preasure steam guns are by far more powerfull than gunpowder, not even by the PSI needed by a Gun to shot an objet, also the caliver of the objets and temperature, those objects are cold and solid, so there is not deformation or fragmentation, that anime is a masterpice cuz the writer thought in all of it.... Remember the anime is based on some premises, A claudia Engine could lift heavy weights against gravity force, the Guild provide the same number of Claudia Engines to both sides, there is no volcanic activity or even all elemets like sulfur at that world, the weight that a claudia engine lifts is similar to a regular battleships, the more weight you put, the bigger or smaller the ship might be, the Sylvana is like a real dreadnought, so its smaller than all other battleships, but is heavy armored and armed.
I adopted the green colour scheme with white stripe for my ships in Airships: Conquer the Skies, this time the green ones are the one that shoots from above though
It seem remind me of the game I used to played back at high school rising force it has almost the same vehicle and some part uniform. BTW thank you or posting I've been also tried to searching the name but I forgot now I remembered and I will continue watch it some part of episode I haven't see when our village got brown out.
TECH TV BOIIIIIIII I MISS YEWWWWWW THE GOOD OL FUCKIN' DAYS.. Before you know, everyone was complaining about people complaining about other peoples complains.
This is reminding me of an old VHS animated movie I still struggle to remember. I remember a huge tree at one point, the child main character sliding down a huge ladder, and at one point they are sailing across the stars or something and the MC puts his hand into the star stream or something. So so desperate to know what movie that was
During this time, only Silvana had that capability to launch fighter squadrons but Duke Madthane (the leader of Minagith forces) saw the gray and red vanships trying to fend of the Disith fleet so he suggested and subsequently implemented during later episodes to adopt carrier-based fighter squadrons...
@@andrewcarlson3486 yeah, mikasa were really one of the ships that could inspired the Claimh solais Anatoray Ships, The yamato... well... that is a whole different level of heavy armour and guns... But in certain way, i think that the fate of the battleships of the Guild were similar to big battleships of the ww2, regardless of the artillery firepower, the use of aviation could sink them without even having to expose your own battleships to the range of enemy fire. But, also it would be interesting to adapt the caracteristics of such ship as Yamato to an Steam or dieselpunk environment. It would be a whole challenge to not just put the superstructure of that ship over a zepelin airship, that should be the obvious decision. All the different solutions than an artist should bring to that concept must be really interesting to see
@@andrewcarlson3486 Also, ships the size of mikasa should be really small ships in the worl of prester, acording to the fan page, the ships from anatoray size lenght is more than 500 meters, which is really a huge structure. One thing i loved from the serie itself was the fact than the Guild has their engineers in every airship, it remembers me the fact than during the chilean-peruvian war of 1879 there was english engineers working on the machinery of chilean sea ships or artillery from other nation. The fact than a technologically superior Kindom or country oversees your campaings really sounded very familiar to me, at least for my country's history.
Is this the show where they would open hangar doors so line infantry with rifles could shoot each other? I vaguely remember seeing that in what feels like a fever dream
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