Episode 45 – Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Intrigue

One of Die Neue These – Intrigue‘s overarching storytelling stylization that I like is its dedication to regularly showing the common people of the galaxy reacting to all these upheavals in the news. It was present to a degree in the old OVA, of course, but it feels just a bit more pronounced here in Die Neue These‘s presentation. Coming off the previous Alliance-side focus having a huge chunk of an episode filtering its story through that civilian viewpoint, this one heads back to the Empire and starts with its people and their reactions to the newly opened-up war between the nations. Much of it is to show that Reinhard’s plan to focus his authority by painting an Emperor-shaped target on the Alliance’s back is working, as we get to watch the people of his Empire ironically declare the ‘Free Planets Alliance’ as unilateral enemies to the freedoms and rights they were granted…