Ginga eiyû densetsu: Waga seifuku wa hoshi no taikai (1988)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Noboru Ishiguro

Writer:

Yoshiki Tanaka (writer)

Release Date:

6 February 1988 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation

Plot:

This is the first animated film in the adaptation of "Legends of the Galactic Heroes" to the screen...

Plot Keywords:

Space Opera | Resentment Toward Superior | Anime

Cast

Ryô Horikawa	...	Reinhard Von Lohengrim
Kei Tomiyama	...	Yang Wen-Li
Masashi Hironaka	...	Siegfried Kircheis
Kazuhiko Inoue	...	Dusty Attenborough
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Toshio Furukawa	...	Oliver Poplan
Issei Futamata	...	Flegel
Takaya Hashi	...	Ernst Mecklinger
Unshô Ishizuka	...	Job Truniht
Michitaka Kobayashi	...	Tonio (as Sanshirô Nitta)
Katsuji Mori	...	Wolfgang Mittermeyer
Tamio Ôki	...	Lazor Lobos
Hidekatsu Shibata	...	Gregor Von Muckenberger
Kaneto Shiozawa	...	Paul Von Oberstein
Kan Tokumaru	...	Paeta
Norio Wakamoto	...	Oskar Reuental

Also Known As:

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Company:

Kitty Animation

Movie Connections:

Followed by "Ginga eiyû densetsu" (1989)

Space battles set to Bolero, what more could you ask for?

This is an excellent film that should get anyone who reads science fiction (or watches it) interested in the series. The scale of the setting is epic and the use of classical music (real masterpieces ala Mahler, Mozart, Beethoven, etc, etc) gives it an integrity that I find lacking in a lot of anime with cute pop songs and even cuter characters.

There's nothing cute about this one; the series centers around a war and depicts it graphically. If you look real closely, you might pick up on some ideology and social commentary while you're at it.