LOGH is still amazing. I haven't seen it in like 10 years so I'm really happy with it. Actually, I'm more than happy. Now that I have more life experience I'm actually enjoying it even more, which rarely happens with anime.
Such a classic.
Quoting myself but this ed is just so beautiful. The lyrics, the singing, the power of the singers words (might help to know Japanese but I don't think so), the orchestration, the visual of Yang and Julian walk by their fellow soldiers. It always struck me as an amazing ED, but I could never articulate how beautiful I find it to be, even as an adult. It perfectly fits the show.
As I watch more (up to ep 17 on my rewatch), I'm falling more and more and more in love with the show...again. It really is like falling in love all over again. It has so much to say: democracy vs dictatorship. Is democracy truly good? Is dictatorship truly evil? What is the nature of man? And it asks these questions through the shows imagery, but also sometimes quite literally. All while never truly providing an answer, and allowing the viewer to come to their own conclusions. I have to admit that rewatching it, I believe I underestimated how much it influenced the younger me. Of the "mature genre fiction", LOGH was probably my first introduction. Before I ever watched Blade Runner, or even Full Metal Jacket I think. Before I ever ventured into the deep pool that is Star Trek. And it turns out now that I'm rewatching, it's always what I'm using as a base to compare similar entertainment to although it hasn't been a conscious act. I wasn't used to media where there was no pretext of good guys vs bad guys. I mean, I flirted with it in things like Suikoden III, of course. So I definitely had those leanings. But not the way LOGH does it, where there truly is no good nor evil, just man. I watched LOGH before ever reading an ASOIAF book, for example. And more than I can admit, went on to influence me a lot, even politically. Even now after all these years, I think LOGH does the "there are no good or bad guys" motif the best. It really is about human nature, power and the responsibilities that come with it, pride, excess, corruption, war, and so many other things. It has so much to say with its density and I'm so happy its even better in my older age.
S-tier anime classic.
