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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > VEGETA > More people should watch Legend of Galactic Heroes
 
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Fivemarks
Feb 21, 2015
 I really want to like LOGH. I really, really want to like it. But the series' Pro-monarchy, anti-democratic message puts me off it way too much. Like, I love the music and the presentation of the original OVA, but man gently caress Monarchy, even when its 'enlightened'.

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Fivemarks
Feb 21, 2015
 Like, I get that it isn't MONARCHY GOOD EMPIRE BAD- the FPA is blatantly post-war japan's one party democracy with all the corruption it implies, with added bits of ultranationalism for good measure.

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Feb 21, 2015

Peanut Butler posted:

the biggest issue with LoGH's political commentary is that it presents a binary of authoritarianism vs liberal democracy without acknowledging the spectre hovering in the background, the alternative of Marxist solutions

Yang seems to get close - using historical analysis to determine the playing field and where to go next. I felt like the show was building up to cast him as this universe's Marx/Lenin, but he never seemed to commit to anything that went too hard against the liberal ideology he grew up with, and then he fuckin dies which makes the rest of the episodes less interesting imo

it's a very small issue, really, and one that is common if you wanna make media that's commercially viable, but it stands out to me as a flaw in an otherwise well-considered show about space ideology

Not gonna lie- if LOGH had taken that step, had had the reformist minded members of the military and the people team up to overthrow the corrupt government and institute a socialist state, I would've been way more into it.

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Fivemarks
Feb 21, 2015

Captain Cappy posted:

The FPA is in a situation that would actually justify having an America-esque focus on their military, since they are in a fight for survival against an authoritarian state that can actually beat them if given the chance. There are still a lot of parallels to America, but I think that distinction (being in an actual war) is what sets the FPA apart, and sort of what makes the state of their economic system moot. Socialists wouldn't have anymore leeway ending the war than a fully capitalist state would.

The FPA absolutely had a chance to end the war after Yang captured Iserlohn though.

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Feb 21, 2015

Takes No Damage posted:

Kircheis: History's Greatest Waifu?
In this essay I will.........

Well the discord LD remaster project is still limping along. I still wish they'd just put out a quick n' dirty 720 rip so at least we'd have SOME modern source from the original LDs, but do have to admit these samples are looking pretty clean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8-qr2-EeRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNUQGRbdHlY

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