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Elotana
Dec 12, 2003

and i'm putting it all on the goddamn expense account

Cubemario posted:

They didn't change his role, he died about a year or so after his role had finished. Nobody else voiced him, to my knowledge.
The gaiden OVA were made after the main series OVA finished, there's a replacement Yang voice for his appearances there. It's more noticeable in the first season (where Yang only speaks in the last few episodes of Hundred Billion Stars), he had the voice pretty much down by Spiral Labyrinth.

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Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

theblackw0lf posted:

Just saw episode 82

gently caress


Finished this episode. I think I'm going to cry.

edit: I also finally understand what the ending sequence for this season means. Julian is watching the slideshow and reminiscing about better days. I mean, that's kind of obvious, but before I was thinking it was showing him being homesick on his trip to Earth. Also, it's kind of funny that Karin is shown at the party, wearing a dress and having fun. Maybe later in the series she does learn to relax, but as of this point she's nowhere close.

Yaoi Gagarin fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Sep 9, 2014

Mederlock
Jun 23, 2012

You won't recognize Canada when I'm through with it
Grimey Drawer

VostokProgram posted:

Finished this episode. I think I'm going to cry.

Let it all out brother

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
As sad as it was when Yang died, nothing in this series tops the moment when you see Kircheis' tombstone and the inscription on it: Mein Freund. Coming from a guy like Reinhardt, that's really touching, and it only gets more so as the series goes on and you realize there was probably nobody else in his life he ever regarded as highly or showed as much intimacy toward again, including his wife.

Elotana
Dec 12, 2003

and i'm putting it all on the goddamn expense account
Tokuma Shoten just took LOGH off Youtube :mad:

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Elotana posted:

Tokuma Shoten just took LOGH off Youtube :mad:

gently caress that.

Is that it for places to watch it online? I dunno if I'd ever watch it again or not but with no English box sets I guess that doesn't matter much anymore.

TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Sep 13, 2014

Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

TheKingofSprings posted:

gently caress that.

Is that it for places to watch it online? I dunno if I'd ever watch it again or not but with no English box sets I guess that doesn't matter much anymore.

kissanime still has them, but you have to disable adblock for the site to use it.

Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

Finally finished. That was absolutely sublime. The greatest anime, and one of the greatest television shows.

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.

VostokProgram posted:

Finally finished. That was absolutely sublime. The greatest anime, and one of the greatest television shows.

Welcome to the enlightened, brother.

Doflamingo
Sep 20, 2006

Started this last month thanks to everyone in ADTRW raving about it and just finished episode 82.

gently caress you guys and gently caress this gay earth. ):

Chas McGill
Oct 29, 2010

loves Fat Philippe

Doflamingo posted:

Started this last month thanks to everyone in ADTRW raving about it and just finished episode 82.

gently caress you guys and gently caress this gay earth. ):

Welcome brother.

Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

Episode 82: Foppery And Whim Come To A Screeching Halt


edit: VVVVVV too soon

Yaoi Gagarin fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Sep 17, 2014

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
History: imagine a terraist's boot stomping on the face of yang wen-li for ever and ever

Depths
Apr 15, 2009

SENPAI
Just finished the show, probably the best anime ever made. Oberstein is such a great character, that last opening song is AWFUL. Wish more people would watch this show.

aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe

Depths posted:

Just finished the show, probably assuredly the best anime ever made. Oberstein is such a great character, that last opening song is AWFUL. Wish more people would watch this show.
ftfy

I just wish anime wasn't so polarizingly awful in so many cases because it's really hard to get your average fan of good TV to give this show a chance.

Doflamingo
Sep 20, 2006

Finished it a couple of days ago. Downloading the gaidens now even though I said I wouldn't because I need more of what is probably the best anime ever. I also have a Rosen Ritter avatar now because why not.

Young Felix grasping for the stars at the end made me shed a tear. So it goes.

DamnGlitch
Sep 2, 2004

Plz note: some of the gaiden are kinda lame. Some are real neat. A lot of them have crappy looking CG.

karlor
Apr 15, 2014

:911::ussr::911::ussr:
:ussr::911::ussr::911:
:911::ussr::911::ussr:
:ussr::911::ussr::911:
College Slice


:suspense: can't stop, I'm hooked

individual865
Mar 26, 2007

Life on the outside ain't what it used to be.
So, I started watching this series, got to episode 14, am hooked, but accidentally moused over a major spoiler upthread. Specifically, I found out that (MAJOR SPOILER) Yang dies in Episode 82. I'm pissed at myself, but do you guys think it's worth continuing to watch with this knowledge?

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
It is unfortunate that that happened but that character is hardly the only memorable one in the show and it would be a huge disservice to set aside all of the other great parts and storylines because of it.

Go RV!
Jun 19, 2008

Uglier on the inside.

individual865 posted:

So, I started watching this series, got to episode 14, am hooked, but accidentally moused over a major spoiler upthread. Specifically, I found out that (MAJOR SPOILER) Yang dies in Episode 82. I'm pissed at myself, but do you guys think it's worth continuing to watch with this knowledge?

Absolutely. The narrator starts hinting at it before it happens anyway, so it's not exactly a twist or anything.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

individual865 posted:

So, I started watching this series, got to episode 14, am hooked, but accidentally moused over a major spoiler upthread. Specifically, I found out that (MAJOR SPOILER) Yang dies in Episode 82. I'm pissed at myself, but do you guys think it's worth continuing to watch with this knowledge?

I watched knowing, it's fine.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Nate RFB posted:

It is unfortunate that that happened but that character is hardly the only memorable one in the show and it would be a huge disservice to set aside all of the other great parts and storylines because of it.

What this guy said. It's a huge, sprawling, lengthy show with lots of cool characters and stories. And it's an event that happens so late in the series, while you've barely scratched the surface, you'd be missing out on so much great stuff.

Besides, the true star of the show is Reinhardt - everybody else is just an expendable secondary character. :colbert:

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

With regards to the spoiler above: it seemed pretty obvious to me that Yang would die at some point - the show was setting Julian up as his successor since the very start, and I also suspected that the lack of "talk to the camera" moments from him meant that he must have died before the events of the show became "historical fact". In spite of that I still found the manner of his death very surprising and sad.

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

individual865 posted:

So, I started watching this series, got to episode 14, am hooked, but accidentally moused over a major spoiler upthread. Specifically, I found out that (MAJOR SPOILER) Yang dies in Episode 82. I'm pissed at myself, but do you guys think it's worth continuing to watch with this knowledge?

In that episode and like the episodes after it the narrator pummels it into your head that "history continues". Yes yang is deadbut the dudes are still in a situation that needs work, and so they keep working.

History is not driven by individuals, it's driven by a lot of things.

Edit sorry thanks

SHISHKABOB fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Sep 30, 2014

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

Yang also says similar things earlier in the series - he talks to Julian about how terrorists can kill individuals but can't change the overall flow of history.

individual865
Mar 26, 2007

Life on the outside ain't what it used to be.
Cool, thanks guys, I'll keep at it! Might want to edit that spoiler out, SHISHKABOB.

Kegslayer
Jul 23, 2007

individual865 posted:

So, I started watching this series, got to episode 14, am hooked, but accidentally moused over a major spoiler upthread. Specifically, I found out that (MAJOR SPOILER) Yang dies in Episode 82. I'm pissed at myself, but do you guys think it's worth continuing to watch with this knowledge?

LOGH is the story of humanity and the characters in the show are really just mere footnotes in an endless debate between competing ideas.

Empires will rise and fall, people will live, love and die and humanity will always find a friend in alcohol.

So yeah just keep watching.

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
The last chapter thing of war and peace where Tolstoy tacks an essay on the end of the novel talks about similar things. War and peace is a story about a bunch of different russian families during the events leading up to and during napoleons invasion of Russia in 1812 and so Napoleon is a "character" in it or whatever, but Tolstoy was of the opinion that history is not moved by *one man alone*, and LoGH holds the same views I think, though it's narrative perspective is from the "prime movers" as opposed to random schmucks in W&P.

I believe that you can see this in the way they both portray the "prime movers", i.e. Yang/Reinhart or Napoleon, in the shop structure of the story. They're important sure but they are not the only actors on the stage.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



karlor posted:



:suspense: can't stop, I'm hooked

LoGH is arguably my favorite anime solely because of the huge amount of eminently quotable pieces. Bucock's lecture on the failure of democracies to Job Truniht is one of the most memorable parts of the series, in my mind.

individual865 posted:

So, I started watching this series, got to episode 14, am hooked, but accidentally moused over a major spoiler upthread. Specifically, I found out that (MAJOR SPOILER) Yang dies in Episode 82. I'm pissed at myself, but do you guys think it's worth continuing to watch with this knowledge?

When Admiral Bucock steps out of retirement for the last time, it's abundantly clear what he is intending to do and what it will mean for him. I seriously cannot help but weep whenever I watch that episode, where he's watching the sunset over Heinessen and thinking back to his happy retirement with his wife, because I know precisely what's coming after. The foreknowledge of what's to come doesn't diminish what comes before it, but simply changes our perceptions of it.

Mederlock
Jun 23, 2012

You won't recognize Canada when I'm through with it
Grimey Drawer
Really, its the basis of most tragedies that the protagonists are likely to not survive or at least come to a positive end; It's the journey from the start of the story to the climatic points with that vague knowledge of eventual misfortune that is so effective at illiciting emotional response

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.
Keep watching, or you will miss Oberstein and his dog :colbert:

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
Also Schenkopp :swoon:

advokat
Nov 17, 2012
Also Bucock. :colbert: His death scene was easily one of the most memorable moments for me, maybe even more so than Yang's.

I suspect he may have been partly based on Ferdinand Foch. An old soldier of the Republic who started out as a private and served all the way up to marshal and commander in chief, assuming supreme command after others have failed. Though maybe I'm just seeing things.

Damo
Nov 8, 2002

The second-generation Pontiac Sunbird, introduced by the automaker for the 1982 model year as the J2000, was built to be an inexpensive and fuel-efficient front-wheel-drive commuter car capable of seating five.

Offensive Clock
I'm probably watching this at a slower pace than anyone ever. I started it like almost a year ago and am only on episode 30.

I absolutely loving love the show, so it's not that I'm not enjoying it. I don't exactly know why I'm taking so long, I just watch a couple of episodes and then keep taking huge breaks before I jump back in. I think I'm kind of afraid that it's either I do this, or I marathon it in like a few days, and I really don't want to do that because I enjoy it so much. I want to let myself have time to breath and reflect between episodes.

Anyway, episode 26 was pretty shocking. I didn't expect that to happen so soon. I mean, I totally knew it was coming, but not that early in the series. It's kind of gotten me worried for other characters I adore. Reinhardt is lost as gently caress without his best bro, and is getting really vindictive. I don't know how he's gonna get it together again, or who would even be capable of wrangling him and tempering his sadistic and vindictive side like Kircheis was.

Yang Wenli is the greatest anime character, or just character period ever. I loving love his attitude, his mannerisms, his voice, everything. He is just such a fantastic character and nothing better happen to him ever or I will be really loving sad and angry.

The idea of a space-opera with battles and action ranging from naval style light years wide spaceship combat scored with amazing classical music, all the way down to dudes in spacesuits fighting with axes is the greatest thing ever. It's something I never knew how much I wanted until I discovered it. Even though I'm only like 1/4 the way through the series I have been trying to get everyone I know to give it a shot. Unfortunately almost everyone I have recommended it to is a loving moron who hates the mere mention of the word anime, even though this series barely even resembles people's ideas of a stereotypical anime. And even if I could get them past that, most are incapable of watching something with subtitles. This is one Anime that really, really would be awesome to have real life people to watch, share, and discuss with, so it really sucks I've only got myself (and the internet) to experience it with. :sigh:.

I actually haven't watched a ton of anime in my life, maybe about 7-8 complete series, all of which which have been fantastic and well regarded. I'm kind of worried that watching LoGH this early in my anime watching times is going to spoil me against any series I watch after. I mean, can any other anime even approach the greatness of this show? I almost regret watching what seems to me to be peak anime before I have seen much other series. Hopefully I will still be able to enjoy other poo poo when I finish it.

Anyway, maybe I should throw on an episode...it has been about 2 weeks since I saw the last one...


edit: vvvv Yeah, all episodes are subbed. Seems like it has been for a long time now. Like years.

Damo fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Oct 1, 2014

Chocobo
Oct 15, 2012


Here comes a new challenger!
Oven Wrangler
Forgive me if it's been answered, I don't want to dig through the thread for fear of spoilers:

Are all 110 episodes subbed now? I've only got 10 episodes left of the epic I've been watching and Legend of Galactic Heroes is next in queue, but I don't want to start an unfinished series.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Chocobo posted:

Forgive me if it's been answered, I don't want to dig through the thread for fear of spoilers:

Are all 110 episodes subbed now? I've only got 10 episodes left of the epic I've been watching and Legend of Galactic Heroes is next in queue, but I don't want to start an unfinished series.

Yeah they have been for years.

Chocobo
Oct 15, 2012


Here comes a new challenger!
Oven Wrangler
Right on, thanks. I'm going to grab the movies and start this ball rolling.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012
What's been the experience for posters in this thread wrt getting people to watch the show? I tried getting some of my anime watching friends to check it out and they pretty much hated it. The first movie got all of them to stop but one, who watched the second movie after I talked him into it and then stopped after that.

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Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

It's hard to get people to start something this long. However, once they've started, every friend I've recommended it to has loved it. This is because if you dislike Legend of Galactic Heroes, you're no friend of mine.

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