Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OAV)

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[ sequel of Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (movie) ]

Related anime:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings (OAV) (1992, prequel)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights (OAV) (1998, sequel)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Spiral Labyrinth (OAV) (1999-12-24, sequel)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (movie) (1993, remake, expands on eps. 1-2)

Alternative title:

Ginga Eiyū Densetsu (Japanese)

Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel (German)

Les Héros de la Galaxie (French)

Повесть О Героях Галактики (Russian)

حرب الكواكب (Arabic)

銀河英雄伝説 (Japanese)

銀河英雄傳說 (Chinese (Taiwan))

은하영웅전설 (Korean)

Genres: drama, science fiction

Themes: military, politics, space, space battles, space navy, war

Objectionable content: Significant

Plot Summary: For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: Imperial Admiral Reinhard von Lohengramm and the FPA's Yang Wen-Li. As they deal with superiors and subordinates, maneuver through complicated political arrangements, plot strategies, and win battles, each will be tested, and ultimately, changed, by the reality of war.

User Ratings: 568 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 339 votes (sub:323, raw:4, dub:3, ?:1, others:8

7 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled

)

Excellent: 86 votes (sub:81, ?:1, raw:1, dub:1, others:2

1 Korean subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled

)

Very good: 43 votes (sub:39, dub:2, raw:1, ?:1)

Good: 39 votes (sub:29, dub:10)

Decent: 14 votes (sub:8, dub:6)

So-so: 10 votes (sub:6, dub:3, raw:1)

Not really good: 9 votes (sub:8, others:1

1 French subtitled

)

Weak: 7 votes (sub:7)

Bad: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)

Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)

Worst ever: 13 votes (sub:12, dub:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 898 users, rank: #1061 (of 5564)
Median rating: Masterpiece
Arithmetic mean: 8.774 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 2.2067, rank: #94 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 8.819 (Excellent−), rank: #77 (of 5553) (seen all: 9.10 / seen some: 8.33 / won't finish: 5.14)
Bayesian estimate: 8.795 (Excellent−), rank: #15 (of 4228)

Running time: 25 minutes per episode

Number of episodes: 110

Episode titles: We have 110

Vintage:

1988-12 to 1989-06 (1st season)

1989 to 1990 (TV version's Original Japanese broadcast)

1991-06 to 1992-02 (2nd season)

1994-07 to 1995-02 (3rd season)

1996-10 to 1997-02 (4th season)

Opening Theme:

#1: "Skies of Love" by Michiru Akiyoshi (eps 1-26)

#2: "I Am Waiting for You" by Michiru Akiyoshi (eps 27-54)

#3: "Sea of the Stars" by LISA (eps 55-86)

#4: "Must Be Something" by Hitomi Konno (eps 87-110)

Ending Theme:

#1: "Hikari no Hashi o Koete" (光の橋を越えて) by Kei Ogura (eps 1-26)

#2: "Tabidachi no Jokyoku" (旅立ちの序曲) by Kei Ogura (eps 27-54)

#3: "Kansō no Uta" (歓送の歌) by Kei Ogura (eps 55-86)

#4: "Uchū no Kakehashi" (宇宙の掛け橋) by Kei Ogura (eps 87-110)

Official website:

Ginga Eiyū Densetsu Official Website (Japanese)

銀河英雄伝説 @ WOWOW (Japanese)

Links: We have 2

Trivia: We have 2

Comment:

Originally the staff wanted this to be a TV series. However the novel was not well known at the time, the novel was long, and there were almost no TV anime series based on novels at the time so the TV planning division did not give LoGH the green light for TV broadcast. Thus, the staff made it into an OVA format. Only later, was it adapted into a TV format.

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