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I think it looks great, most of the differences are just that this is the modern style of anime The really really important thing is if they can make 20 characters wearing the same uniform all look unique. Edit: new anime trailer on the last page Another Person posted:This looks incredibly ugly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXEm5aaWHgI
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Cake Attack posted:It's not like the ovas were a particularly remarkable achievement of animation. The designs were standard for the time and the show itself was pretty stiff. The biggest issue is that there's no way this show is getting the like 75 episodes minimum you'd need to actually cover the story The OVAs had a consistent style that was absolutely perfect for the series. The other aspects of the animation may have been average, but style is just as, if not more, important. The preview doesn't give much to make a comparison though, showing only 3 major characters out of a cast with dozens.
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Sep 21, 2017 00:38
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Much as I like the period-appropriate style of the previous OVA, this looks good too. What'll make or break it for me is the soundtrack.
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Sep 21, 2017 00:41
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Yang looks good to me so there's that. He's my main dude. The rest is... interesting but hey, we'll see.
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Sep 21, 2017 00:51
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I am hoping that this series will be taking a lot of cues from the (excellent) manga.
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Sep 21, 2017 01:41
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Do we know how long this series is scheduled to be/how much it will be covering?
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Go RV! posted:Do we know how long this series is scheduled to be/how much it will be covering? First season is going to be 12 eps, coming this spring. second season is going to be 3 films with a total of 12 episodes of story. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-20/new-legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-anime-reveals-cast-staff-promo-video-dates-titles/.121619
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I can deal with how the new version looks, mostly, but I'll miss the classical music if they don't bring that back.Popo posted:First season is going to be 12 eps, coming this spring. second season is going to be 3 films with a total of 12 episodes of story. Which suggests they probably aren't going to adapt more than a small handful of arcs, at least at this time.
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Sep 21, 2017 03:29
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I came in ready to be disappointed, and I thought the designs looked really good until they got to Yang. Yang looks fuckin ridiculous. Is julian gonna be in this? It seems weird to make Yang look so young when he's supposed to have a ward.
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Sep 21, 2017 03:39
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also yang isnt a frowny bishie type, he's a shy professorial type going aw shucks
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Echoing on the Yang thing. I mean, he's a military officer, but he's not supposed to look or act like one -- he should be disheveled and unserious and sort of rueful looking. That said, he was in it for all of like 2 seconds, so who knows.
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Sep 21, 2017 04:22
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Bongo Bill posted:Much as I like the period-appropriate style of the previous OVA, this looks good too. What'll make or break it for me is the soundtrack. I was going to make a Mahler joke but while looking for relevant clips I found something amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3RbTUcg8Y
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Bongo Bill posted:Much as I like the period-appropriate style of the previous OVA, this looks good too. What'll make or break it for me is the soundtrack. Yeah this was what I realized, if it has anything but orchestral classics they will have RUINED IT FOREVER!!!
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Sep 21, 2017 08:45
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the FPA ships look pretty bad but they might be some kinda boring cruisers or something. If the Hyperion isn't in I'd be sad
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Sep 21, 2017 08:48
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No anime has ever shown a character in his or her 30s, except maybe by adding a small beard to a younger model. Do 12 episode seasons suggest each season will cover 2 books? So season 1 will end right about when the double civil war starts?
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Billzasilver posted:No anime has ever shown a character in his or her 30s, except maybe by adding a small beard to a younger model. The OVAs made Yang look too old to be in his 20s and too young to be in his 40s. 
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I don't know if I can agree with that. Maaaybe if you have prior knowledge that his drink is secretly full of bourbon. 
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Sep 21, 2017 13:58
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Sep 21, 2017 16:35
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This show will be good, because it will lead to more people watching Legend of Galactic Heroes, which they should, Q.E.D.
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Doc Hawkins posted:This show will be good, because it will lead to more people watching Legend of Galactic Heroes, which they should, Q.E.D. Tell me about it. I'm getting an itch to watch it and see if I can't get myself to stick with it past the 50~ ep mark, which is where my attention span usually wanders.
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I mean if you've not watched it yet it's kind of an incredible saga told in about a hundred episodes constantly, while it's not balls to the wall really, I don't really remember any long stretches where nothing important happened. Maybe the history episodes but those owned anyways.
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Captain Invictus posted:I mean if you've not watched it yet it's kind of an incredible saga told in about a hundred episodes constantly, while it's not balls to the wall really, I don't really remember any long stretches where nothing important happened. Maybe the history episodes but those owned anyways. Yeah, people say that it's slow paced but the truth is that it just has a lot of ground to cover. There's always something going on.
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Sep 21, 2017 18:57
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i will probably just watch the toast to democracy scene in the new series. i cant think of any real standouts beside that which are worth rewatching
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Relin posted:i will probably just watch the toast to democracy scene in the new series. i cant think of any real standouts beside that which are worth rewatching Schenkopp, with a rocket launcher slung over his shoulder, kidnapping Lebello. "We're the lawless and brutally cruel rebel squad."
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The_White_Crane posted:Schenkopp Fixed with a more accurate answer. Walter von Schenkopp 
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Doc Hawkins posted:This show will be good, because it will lead to more people watching Legend of Galactic Heroes, which they should, Q.E.D. It will be bad on it's own merits because it's 2018, and also because some people will say they like it more than the good adaptation, which most newcomers will probably ignore.
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Sep 22, 2017 11:59
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Is the new anime getting an average budget or what It's going in movie theaters for season 2
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I sincerely hope that the new series puts an amount of male gaze on Reinhard that is more similar to the books, i.e. a lot of it.
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I have no expectations this will be anywhere near as good as the OVA, but I'm sure I'll watch it all. I don't care too much about the animation - If it's less than half the trainwreck that Berkserk 2016 was, I'll consider it a win. The ships were recognizably empire/FPA, Reinhard's flagship was recognizable - if they keep that up that's fine. Go wild with the doodads or don't...whatever. Yang definitely looks too young and neat in the trailer, hopefully they figure out how to animate foppery and whim between now and release. Nothing else looked that off other than Kircheis looking Asian instead of European, but I figure that's fair considering what we do to Asian characters over here. The voice acting and music will make or break it for me, though if they do any fanservice that's not blatantly centered around Schenkopf and Poplan, I'll be pretty mad. Anyone know if they're keeping OVA Dusty Attenborough or sticking with the novel version?
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They couldn't have made Reinhard's face look more unlike his personality. He looks like a teenager making a badass face in his bedroom mirror. Yang looks like a cheap gigolo.
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I'll be honest I thought they were gonna like way anime it up so aside for infant Yang I'm pleasantly surprised. I'd take this over the gaiden animation, for example. For me though it's a bit of a wasted effort, since I love the original, but obviously the idea is to exploit the same story for a generation of people who never saw or heard of the original, so I doubt they are trying to please current fans so much as remain recognizable while not being slavish to the adaptation.
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VostokProgram posted:I was going to make a Mahler joke but while looking for relevant clips I found something amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3RbTUcg8Y
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I'm not sure how I feel about the new designs for Yang and Sieg but I will probably still watch it if it's closer to the books' timeline/canon. I'm actually one of the rare people who started getting into the series through the books so I've only seen a few episodes of the old OVA for fear of spoilers, but I really like the art and character designs in it. The new sharp-looking Yang just seems wrong. I thought folks in the thread might be interested in this - it's an article/talk by the translator of vol 4 and 5 of the novels about the series: http://www.haikasoru.com/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-vol-3/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-translator-tyran-grillo-speaks/
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Ghost-Slug posted:I will probably still watch it if it's closer to the books' timeline/canon. It won't be. The OVAs are hilariously faithful, which is part of the reason the series is 110 episodes long. The most they differ (that I have noticed) is in the fact that certain scenes which are flashbacks in the books are sometimes parcelled out into their own Gaiden episodes instead of being shown in the middle of the current events the way they're interleaved in the books.
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Well, the OVAs also have Dusty. It saddens me to think of a LoGH without Dusty.
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YF-23 posted:Well, the OVAs also have Dusty. It saddens me to think of a LoGH without Dusty. Dusty is still in the books but he's introduced in Book 3 I think, rather than being around from the start. Now that I've been listening to the audiobooks for the series it saddens me that the exploits of Yang's father aren't included in the OVAs. The_White_Crane posted:It won't be. The OVAs are hilariously faithful, which is part of the reason the series is 110 episodes long. The most they differ (that I have noticed) is in the fact that certain scenes which are flashbacks in the books are sometimes parcelled out into their own Gaiden episodes instead of being shown in the middle of the current events the way they're interleaved in the books. The recontextualisation of the background lore and history in episodes 50-51(?) was a brilliant decision, as they were formerly just an inelegant lore dump right at the start of the first book.
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Has anyone read the translated novels and would the first three be worth $20? There's a humble bundle deal at the moment but I'm not sure if it's worth buying and I have no idea about the other novels.
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Kegslayer posted:Has anyone read the translated novels and would the first three be worth $20? Well if you already wanted to read the novels that's a great price, since the usual price for one is $16 on amazon. If you're unsure, my personal feeling about the first one is that on it's own merits its a decent novel, but the OVA was such a ridiculously faithful adaptation that it almost feels like you're reading a script. So if you go in expecting to see some new story or nuance that you haven't seen before, you'll be mostly disappointed. On the other hand, if you go in expecting loving descriptions of how beautiful Reinhard is....
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Kegslayer posted:Has anyone read the translated novels and would the first three be worth $20? The audiobooks are worth more simply because it gives a different interpretation of characters, like Yang who is a bit more bitter. There's also a ton of small details here and there.
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I've only been reading the novels and haven't seen much of the OVA but I'd say it's definitely worth it - I've really been enjoying the series! In my opinion, what I saw of the OVA wasn't completely the same as the novels (the background history has apparently been moved from the very beginning of the series to mid-way through, they added Dusty into a bunch of scenes, and I don't remember Yang having a romantic thing for Jessica in the novels). There's enough different that it's worth checking both out, I think. 
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