Otaku Revolution Die Neue These Review Episode 5

Episode 05, "Nascence of the 13th Fleet"

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Synopsis:  On the Free Planet Alliance'due south majuscule planet of Heinessen, Yang Wen-li attends a public memorial for the deaths in the Battle of Astarte. There, Secretary of Defense Job Trunicht gives a grandiose spoken language on the sacrifices for the homeland, just is interrupted and confronted by Jessica Edwards, who questions if he's living what he speaks to. Sensing tension, Yang flees the service with her, where he is pursued, and narrowly avoids a car wreck. After escorting Edwards to the spaceport, the beleaguered officer returns home to his ward, Julian, but is followed there by reactionaries called the Patriotic Knight Corps who condemn him for his behavior. He repels the grouping, and is soon called in by his CO to discuss a mission he must undergo: to take a newly formed fleet and capture the Galactic Empire'due south Iserlohn infinite fortress. Yang reluctantly accepts the consignment.

Comments:

Bated from the new (and a tad unnecessary) machine hunt scene, this episode was pretty much a word-for-give-and-take accommodation of Chapter Four of the first Legend of the Galactic Heroes novel past Yoshiki Tanaka. Not just did they manage to get the whole damn thing in, but even add that weird action scene. I hateful, they fifty-fifty included the scrap where Yang loses the only genuine antique his father left him. Mayhap he should accept sold that long ago to pay for Julian's instruction. Now he has to rely on his somewhat sparse, and withal increasing, bacon.

Come to think of it, in that location was one thing they left out that, honestly, they actually should have kept in, which was the quondam woman with her grandson at the spaceport. The erstwhile adult female's grandson was meek and she was hoping with Yang's encouragement he would become brave enough to be a soldier. Even so, Yang claimed that past the fourth dimension the child grew up, an age of peace would make it, and so him becoming a soldier would be unnecessary. Wishful thinking for somebody who tin can be and then skeptical that he'south downright cynical. I remember information technology's a great bit that humanizes Yang and shows the obsession with the state of war even the civilians possess.

Speaking of that obsession, we're introduced to the slimy, jingoistic, and ultimately self-serving Secretary of Defense for the FPA, Task Trunicht. He not-then-subtly represents the sort of politician that glorifies the sacrifices of lives for causes supposedly more than important than those lives while he remains completely sheltered from their consequences, while dismissing any kind of rational compromise. Information technology'southward amazing, however, that this somewhat of a caricature of overzealous warmongers is depressingly common in real life. As the original OVA opined in an opening sequence, "Zu jeder zeit, an jedem ort, bleibt das tun der menschen das gleiche" ("In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same").

An of import grapheme introduced in this episode, bated from Trunicht, is Yang's kind-of-apprentice, Julian Mintz. As Calsenes described in the previous episode, the state of war orphans are recycled into the organization, the military machine giving them board and teaching in return for military service. Yang is determined to sway Julian from becoming a soldier, or at least rushing headlong into information technology, but Julian seems just every bit willful. In the meantime, he basically runs the household and keeps things tidy and livable for the slovenly, irresponsible Yang. Throughout the novels, Julian develops into a more than complicated graphic symbol, just we won't come across much of that in this serial if it only covers the first volume.

So it looks like at the very to the lowest degree the next couple of episodes will cover the attack on Iserlohn, which means spending even more time with Yang. Nosotros'll see the Rozen Ritters, revisit Paul von Oberstein, and hopefully finally go a glimpse at Phezzan and Adrian Rubinsky. Oooh, and Frederica Greenhill grown up! Practiced stuff.

You lot'd near think this bear witness was more often than not about Yang. Nosotros haven't seen Reinhard in a while. I kind of miss that gold haired deviling.

Overall Score:

4 out of v

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These tin be watched on Crunchyroll.

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