Legend of the Galactic Heroes is Brilliant - Season 1 Review & Discussion 

Reinhard is absolutely a full admiral. A high admiral even. But Yang is a Commodore, someone who can serve as a staff officer to an Admiral or Fleet admiral, or command a "small" floatilla of a couple hundred ships.

In the novel, Obestein does not lie about the timetable, Reinhard simply agrees to it. It's his Truman moment. "How many soldiers is one civilian's life worth?" (Especially in an empire with Conscription)

I would say that the watch order is pretty widely accepted to be the 2 movies, episodes 3 to 110 then Gaiden. Since the remake isn’t finished there’s no point watching it even if someone would like it more though I personally think the og show is much better. The 2 movies are easily the best way to get into the show. Prequel one should be watched first obviously. There is also another movie called like golden wing or something but that isn’t that good so it’s not suggested you watch it.

An intersting novel note I was told about about the Alliance, and jjust humanity in general by the time of even Rudolph, 150 years before the Alliance fled the empire, Humanity was getting close to some sorta new race, and one of the offshoot gaidens of the OVA mentions a purebred asian being a rarity. So the various names may have little to do with race or ethnicity in the Alliance, Given both he OVA and new DNT anime have two very specifically black guys that seems to indicate the novel had them as black and it wasn't just an animation choice to set the alliance apart from the Empire visually.

44:04 This is where I think you've misjudged Oberstein. He realizes he fucked up BADLY getting Kircheis killed like that, and that as Reinhard's light is dying without Siegfried, Oberstein, his shadow, is lessened in kind.

The original OVA had a 2 episode pilot dub by Ocean up in canada, they did eps 52 and 53. No other eps were done. Oberstein was awful, Julian was Amuro, Schonkoph was Char(RIP), and Reinhard was Wufei from gundam wing.

Great review Spoilers for season 1 Reinhard was already very relevant at ep 1 since he was already a High Admiral. Yang was just a commodore and he was serving as Staff Officer. The order of ranks is Commodore Rear admiral Vice admiral Admiral High Admiral (only exists in the Empire) Fleet Admiral Oberstein and Mittemeyer are amazing characters. Tip: a good way to memorize characters is by their hair, they all have unique hairstyles.

Didnt know rasputin watched logh

43:37 not in the royal family, in the family of the Prime Minister he'd just couped. Every male over 10, all girls and women get exiled.

22:25 the ice makes sense scientifically but has an issue of trivializing the other forms of battle.

Love the cutaways to the relevant clips lol youre right about the colossal set ups are the best part of LotGH. I am only like ~80 eps in but what a great series for you to get into, glad this stumbled onto my feed and i cant wait to hear more from you!

I think the next seasons are gonna change your perspective about Oberstien immensely. He becomes my top 3 favourite characters after Yang and Reinhard. Tied with Mittermayer.