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Legend of Galactic Heroes: My conquest is the sea of stars Anonymous 11/21/2021 (Sun) 06:49:28 No. 653
First off God damn that's a long subtitle, as ridiculously long a title to have to begin with they managed to top even that. Seriously what a fucking mouthful. So this anime is shilled a lot, and yesterday I finally was convinced to try it out. I began with the prequel movie "My conquest is the sea of stars", and I have serious issues with the last ten minutes, and nowhere else more appropriate to air them. There's a giant fleet engagement with about a million vessels taking part, as the democratic "good guys" are getting creamed they come up with a move to win. Three guys take a ship and kick everyone else off (if these ships don't need gunners to fire the guns, engineers to oversee the powerplant, marines for boarding actions, or even crewman to man radar. Then why the hell are these ships manned at all?) Then fly up to the enemy commander, come along side and sit there. The entire warzone goes quiet. Everyone to afraid to fire a single shot, EVEN MILLIONS OF KILOMETRES AWAY, for fear the commanders vessel might be struck. The "good guys" (who were getting crushed) use this confusion to sail away in peace, leaving this single vessel with three crewman alone behind enemy lines. Then that ship leaves too. That was the summary and already I bet many can see the obvious issues with this plot. 1. Coming alongside another vessel does indeed mean you probably won't be targeted by canon fire, sure, BUT that simply means you are commiting a boarding action. Pistols and sabers time. So why doesnt the "imperialistic" "badguy" commander sound repel boarders and? Or when it's clear he isn't being boarded, BOARD THE OTHER SHIP. 2. why the fuck would you let the enemy go? 3. Why would a ship fighting off boarders (which has been a common occurence for so long as naval vessels have existed I.E. all of western history) silence not just his own side, but the other side as well? 4. In a battlespace billions of kilometres wide why would anyone else give a shit? 5. Why let the enemy suicide vessel go? Why would noone take a potshot after it left the side of the commanders ship? 6. Is the entire series this monumentally retarded? Did the author even look into naval tactics from any century? 7. Will it get better? I mean what kinda ship doesn't have marines on board? How is there no procedure for dealing with a close in enemy? Traditionally you board it, kill the crew, and then cut away boarding ropes, wait til you are out of range of it exploding, and then sink the bastard. Or you take control of the enemy vessel, crew it, and keep fighting now with another ship in your flotilla. I just don't understand how that was a conundrum that has never occured in that animes world. Simple fucking shit guys. All that being said I liked it. Good music, good art, cool massive fleet battle. On the negative sides, bad dialogue (or maybe stilted is a better way of phrasing that) stupid understanding of warfare, and silly deus ex machina at the end for all the main characters to live. I'm thinking of making diagrams of the battle, and ones of Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar to further demonstrate how ridiculously naive the writer was in terms of tactics, complete with footnotes to the equipment available in the anime and the tactical considerations such weaponry necessitates. I don't know about tonight though. Oddly not feeling nearly autistic and angry enough to commit to what will be a minimum of three hours of work to create something that honestly only 3 people will ever see.
>>653 I also tried it due to all the praise. After a few minutes in the first episode, I dropped it. The main characters and their crew are all sipping tea and philosophizing like literal faggots, with NOBODY checking out radars and security equipment, then they all get a surprise attack by their enemies, since none of the entire crew of the ship was doing any form of surveillance, and instead, were drinking tea and talking about life like literal faggots. Then they go on "emergency mode" to try to retaliate against the enemy, all the while many ships in the fleet get attacked and destroyed. That scene alone made me drop it. I don't care what the rest of the series has to show. When the author made a scene as idiotic as that opening "surprise" attack, nothing that he wants to show is worth watching.
I challenge you to write a story about space warfare warfare make it sound exciting. There is no "up" There is no sound The weapons themselves are invisible, and fired from reductions distances from the target Slow as fuck, but also extremely tense as well, as you could instantly be hit by an attack that totally wrecks your shit at any momment. Etc. Space combat is boring af to write about with any amount of believable realism.
>>708 Also you can't see anything, so everything is being navigated by instruments.
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>>656 >watch a heavily politically driven anime >get upset when there's philosophical debate Okay retard
out of context vids of this gem is so much better than watching it full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLYBVHjONPM&list=FL8txYntxfcx8Fqny7oi0SYw&index=27
>>724 watching the full episodes*
>>656 >>708 that's it retards, LoGH is philosophical more than it's about politics and realism, it discusses ideologies and political theories purely as abstract ideas not their application
>>708 Realism > style.
>>715 >Being this much of a shill >muh philosophy good Found the soyfreak. >let's discuss philosophy instead of fortifying our defenses Ok, retard.
>>726 >it discusses ideologies and political theories purely as abstract ideas not their application Made by retards and for retards then.
>>782 By that logic, fiction itself would be completely trumped by history.
Straight in there with the overt anti-white shit, this one. Second time around my nose got too sensitive for the stench & I dropped it.
>>893 Only retards like fiction more than reality.
>>898 >overt anti-white shit Where? At any rate, I personally rooted for the Goldenbaum dynasty. Doesn't matter anyway; it's not like there are any nignogs in the empire for Reinhard (or his heirs) to push for diversity, and Reinhard has never interacted significantly with any non-white to care.


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