higher form of life coming from the stars @chineseteawithbrandy - Tumblr Blog

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this is a logh sideblog, created after i finally watched all of OVA and went insane all thanks to my friend who recommended it hard enough. inspirational! and as such, i do not tag spoilers or anything like that;

if you only just started watching logh, or are in the middle of your journey, SHOO. TURN AROUND. come back to the logh side of tumblr when you're finished.

probably all i have to say on the matter for now.

p. s. if you send an ask with a number ranging from 1 to 313 you can get a corresponding screenshot from my collection of logh screenshots :D.

#hiiighly doubt anybody from a non-logh side of tumblr will lay their eyes on this post in the foreseeable future but #better be safe than sorry #you do not want to spoil yourself when watching this show fr #.txt #pinned post

chacha-tortuga

never thought I'd start watching a 110 episode anime but I can't stop. I made sleeves for the burnt DVDs

#actually breathtaking #art

studentofetherium

politicians are always saying this

mm-yy

Resolve

#yang

chlorophanes

have been dragging my friends through a rewatch of legend of the galactic heroes (logh for my mutuals who might not know the acronym) which i last watched as an itty bitty junior high school student... i forgot how extremely wonderfully tragically explicit this show is about its post-ww2 japanese anti-militarism. in fact i think logh really can't be divorced from that context... i am spitballing this in the middle of a very boring work call so forgive the distraction/disorderliness, but during yang's operation to capture iserlohn fortress admiral seeckt literally says gyokusai (玉砕) (shattered jade) and bujin no kokoro (武人の心) (a warrior's heart) — ww2 buzzwords. gyokusai is the driving philosophy behind suicide attacks, i.e. the notion that it's better to die spectacularly (like shattered jade) than to remain alive, and bujin no kokoro is a core part of bushido ethics codified during the meiji era into the imperial combat manual, the senjinkun (戦陣訓). related sidebar: japan didn't ratify the 1929 geneva conventions re: the treatment of POWs because of this philosophy of death over surrender — why negotiate for better conditions for your soldiers when you've ordered them to die instead of accepting capture? i think it's so telling that the first real show of temper that we see from yang is his response to bujin no kokoro... "because people like that are here, war never ends." and when admiral seeckt dies, he is shouting teikoku banzai (帝国万歳) (long live the empire). is there any phrase more intrinsic to identity of the japanese imperial army other than tennouheika banzai (天皇陛下万歳) (long live the emperor)?

boitterfly

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

#imagine a logh amv