Don't listen to what any of the negative reviewers say. This series is absolutely beautiful, both in scope, it's design of story and artwork. Simply stunning. Possible Spoilers but honestly, nothing at all given away in terms of the overall story.
On what that 'other' individual seemed to state.
1. The Plot. What better plot could you have than a political one with so many threads it keeps you guessing as to which way things are going to go. Will it be the Empire who triumphs or the Free Planetary Alliance. Or is it really the other factions and figures in the background that are pulling the strings and both sides are simply chess pieces for the benefit of these ruthless zealots and dictators who play each side against one another for there own personal gain. Essentially as the series focuses on many different people with many different pasts and adds a real cultural diversity rarely seen in scifi anime there's more plot twists and turns than you can imagine. Practically every character has a story to tell and a part to play. I've never seen this kind of scope attempted before in a Scifi anime. In fact in most scifi's It far outdoes Babylon 5 for example in it's breath taking scope.
2. The Battle tactics.Sometimes there may look to be kickbacks etc, but honestly this is a Scifi,perhaps they have compensators and it get's annoying when people treat something like a futuristic starship(in fact most people do this), as if it would obey the laws of physics we know today. That's ludicrous in itself and the author of Heldensagen Vom Kosmosinsel(it's proper name), obviously has far more depth than this. That's the beauty of SciFi, it poses the concepts of 'WHAT IF'. A final note on that would be that the series features more projectile style weapons than energy weapons. Ever seen a canon on a battle ship fire. It rocks back and forwards. If you had something to keep you in the same position(thrust to get you to a position), then you would certainly have thrust to counteract the recoil of a canon(or in the case of these ships multifirings) all at once.
3. They wear battle armor(does it state that anywhere in the series?). When I saw those scenes, I saw war torn ravaged landscapes and areas of space stations etc exposed to the vacuum of space. The suits seemed more like environment suits than battle suits. The axes seemed to be something of tradition. In the vacuum areas it looked like there was a lot of sensitive gear around, hence firing projectile weapons of any kind would not have been practical and in the war torn areas, the air is so thick with pollutants etc, you couldn't see the enemy until they were right next to you, hence the close combat weapons. Projectiles and high energy weapons are used however for more direct attacks. Hence the axes are not a bad thing. With the asteroid vacuum opened space stations, projectiles pinging off the walls would not be a good thing for your own troops. In a nutshell it makes sense if you put a bit of thought to it.
Seriously fellow Sci-Fi buffs and fans, this is a major mind blowing series that I class as even better than Starblazers(which I still love and adore to this day). The scope is amazing, the depth and care to detail for the characters incredible. Even watching the whole series and having to read the subtitles throughout has done nothing to detract me from the awesome beauty of the grand Sci-Fi space opera. The massive scale of it is beyond so many series. The starships are spectacular and the way they mix battleship style warfare with sub into a 3D aspect is truly unique for any SciFi series made into an adult animation. The only negative I had for the entire series was the intro song which features as the main theme for each season. To be honest, it was just not worthy of the series grandeur, however for most of the actual show it features well placed classical music throughout which is really to it's credit and sets terrific atmosphere as the show progresses. Even those intro songs can be looked at as how the directors where trying to achieve the point of the series, which to me was how fragile human relationships, organisations and teams of any kind are. It is great to see a show that blurs a very distinct line on the good guys and the bad guys. The horror of war is seen by both sides and both sides have there just cause. In the end whichever side you go with, your going to be hard pressed to justify all the actions and incidents that proliferate throughout a war. It was some of these actions which hardened the characters. In essence I found the character Wengli to have an interesting attitude towards the whole predicament but agreed on the way he studied each and every situation before acting upon it. The way he looks non-plussed is indicative of how hopeless he found war full stop and how much he wished it would go away and let everyone just live in peace.
Mind blowingly good series that is sadly hard to come by in a DVD format or Blu-ray format.
On what that 'other' individual seemed to state.
1. The Plot. What better plot could you have than a political one with so many threads it keeps you guessing as to which way things are going to go. Will it be the Empire who triumphs or the Free Planetary Alliance. Or is it really the other factions and figures in the background that are pulling the strings and both sides are simply chess pieces for the benefit of these ruthless zealots and dictators who play each side against one another for there own personal gain. Essentially as the series focuses on many different people with many different pasts and adds a real cultural diversity rarely seen in scifi anime there's more plot twists and turns than you can imagine. Practically every character has a story to tell and a part to play. I've never seen this kind of scope attempted before in a Scifi anime. In fact in most scifi's It far outdoes Babylon 5 for example in it's breath taking scope.
2. The Battle tactics.Sometimes there may look to be kickbacks etc, but honestly this is a Scifi,perhaps they have compensators and it get's annoying when people treat something like a futuristic starship(in fact most people do this), as if it would obey the laws of physics we know today. That's ludicrous in itself and the author of Heldensagen Vom Kosmosinsel(it's proper name), obviously has far more depth than this. That's the beauty of SciFi, it poses the concepts of 'WHAT IF'. A final note on that would be that the series features more projectile style weapons than energy weapons. Ever seen a canon on a battle ship fire. It rocks back and forwards. If you had something to keep you in the same position(thrust to get you to a position), then you would certainly have thrust to counteract the recoil of a canon(or in the case of these ships multifirings) all at once.
3. They wear battle armor(does it state that anywhere in the series?). When I saw those scenes, I saw war torn ravaged landscapes and areas of space stations etc exposed to the vacuum of space. The suits seemed more like environment suits than battle suits. The axes seemed to be something of tradition. In the vacuum areas it looked like there was a lot of sensitive gear around, hence firing projectile weapons of any kind would not have been practical and in the war torn areas, the air is so thick with pollutants etc, you couldn't see the enemy until they were right next to you, hence the close combat weapons. Projectiles and high energy weapons are used however for more direct attacks. Hence the axes are not a bad thing. With the asteroid vacuum opened space stations, projectiles pinging off the walls would not be a good thing for your own troops. In a nutshell it makes sense if you put a bit of thought to it.
Seriously fellow Sci-Fi buffs and fans, this is a major mind blowing series that I class as even better than Starblazers(which I still love and adore to this day). The scope is amazing, the depth and care to detail for the characters incredible. Even watching the whole series and having to read the subtitles throughout has done nothing to detract me from the awesome beauty of the grand Sci-Fi space opera. The massive scale of it is beyond so many series. The starships are spectacular and the way they mix battleship style warfare with sub into a 3D aspect is truly unique for any SciFi series made into an adult animation. The only negative I had for the entire series was the intro song which features as the main theme for each season. To be honest, it was just not worthy of the series grandeur, however for most of the actual show it features well placed classical music throughout which is really to it's credit and sets terrific atmosphere as the show progresses. Even those intro songs can be looked at as how the directors where trying to achieve the point of the series, which to me was how fragile human relationships, organisations and teams of any kind are. It is great to see a show that blurs a very distinct line on the good guys and the bad guys. The horror of war is seen by both sides and both sides have there just cause. In the end whichever side you go with, your going to be hard pressed to justify all the actions and incidents that proliferate throughout a war. It was some of these actions which hardened the characters. In essence I found the character Wengli to have an interesting attitude towards the whole predicament but agreed on the way he studied each and every situation before acting upon it. The way he looks non-plussed is indicative of how hopeless he found war full stop and how much he wished it would go away and let everyone just live in peace.
Mind blowingly good series that is sadly hard to come by in a DVD format or Blu-ray format.