Fighting in the forces of the Galactic Empire (whose government and society are based on 19th century Prussia) is the ambitious young noble named Reinhard von Müsel, better known by the name granted to him later, Reinhard von Lohengramm. The meat of the story is this: sometime in the 36th century (the narrative of the main series takes place between January 3596 and July 3601), humanity has spread out amongst the stars and has split off into two great superpowers which are now sadly engaged in a decades-long knock-down, drag-out war with each other. (A noble yet feeble attempt at licensing a dub version of the anime was made many years ago, but no one bit, and thus the only way the series was accessible in English until recently was via Fan Sub.) until Anime Expo 2015, when Viz Media licensed the novels and Sentai Filmworks licensed the OVA which is now available on Hidive. (It is, therefore, longest-running OVA of all time, although it was later shown on TV.) This is in Japan, of course, as neither the anime, nor the manga, nor the huge series of novels written by Yoshiki Tanaka which spawned the franchise have ever been released in America. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is an enormous, sprawling 110-episode (plus side stories) Space Opera originally released on home video.

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