It’s also a hefty time commitment, as two films and 110 episodes comprise the main story plus 52 episodes of side stories. The battle sequences, grand in scale though they may be, are similarly dry a calling card of its legendary director, the dearly departed Noboru Ishiguro ( Space Battleship Yamato, Megazone 23, The music is all classical, and the narrator’s emotional detachment is as though he’s literally reading from galactic history as each page turns.
Most episodes consist almost entirely of complex dialogue regarding politics, military tactics, philosophy, and other weighty topics. The number of characters-nearly all male-and locations is so colossal that they’re captioned when they appear so you can keep track of who’s who because nearly everybody’s in military uniform. The anime adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka’s hard sci-fi novels from the 1980s-currently being released in English courtesy of Viz Media’s Haikasoru imprint-will always be of extremely narrow interest among anime fans. It took literally half my life, but I can finally truthfully say it: “Legend of the Galactic Heroes is available to watch legally in English.”
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