@Plastik
Fan needs a beard and an eye-patch.

I use DEER for this one, usually I just go with whatever DDL is available first.

@Dorian Cornelius Jasper
Jouslain seems to be level headed but I think it’s a bit too early to try and discern what he puts up as a facade and what is real. Becoming a duke in Tytania is no small thing and I am sure that he had to have been politically astute to get where he is. Right now I think he can go either way in terms of personality, Ariabart seems the least capable of putting up a false face, or his defeat just shook him up that badly.

Grapevine talk seems to be right. Same with promo materials. Jouslain looks to be the protagonist, or at least a protagonist. Fan Hulic needs a bit more screentime, but apparently info on him from fans of the novel is slim. On the other hand, there’s lots of info on Tytania’s Four Dukes of Uraniborg, with Jouslain at the top of the list.

I think Fan might actually be a secondary character.

Curious, though. Jouslain is shown to be the most level-headed, observant, and compassionate of the Four Dukes. (He insulted Aryabhata in front of the other Dukes, but when he didn’t have to put up a facade in front of him, he was kinder to the poor Bluey. Or was that the front? Hmm.) Note that Tytania is not viewed in a very sympathetic light, as is quite obvious, but the central characters seem to be presented as the Dukes of Tytania. The compassionate one, who skoll interpreted as a “heroic villain,” is also the only one who says of the Tytania clan/family/House that it does not serve a good purpose, it merely serves itself. And he had what could have been interpreted as a villainous aside with Francia, implying that Tytania will need him one day.

But I wonder.

What if this scene is a veiled foreshadowing of a potential betrayal of Tytania? They’re not good guys, they’re merely the major power in the universe. But flashbacks of the family history show some rather unsympathetic bits (the picture of a mother and child right before their execution at the hands of Tytania’s military) and the presented protagonist-figures–both the heroic bum Fan Hulic and the more enigmatic Jouslain–are more defined by a opposition to Tytania. In one case overt (and nearly accidental), the other in his beliefs.

(The current head of Tytania already suspects that Jouslain might not make the best choice as a successor, in spite of being the most qualified, and I suspect loyalty is the cause of his concern.)

I think Fan Hulic might be a red herring. But hey, you never know. Maybe Tytania really are the good guys, or at least a lesser evil. Though describing things in terms of “good and evil” when morality is less of a concern than simple enlightened self-interest is probably not the best way to describe people in this show.

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This is the first time I’ve actually sat down to think about a show in a long time.

BTW, Crusader, which subs are you watching? The romanizations and some translations in your blog seem a bit different than the one I’m watching

Morality is ALWAYS a political luxury, let’s not be naive. Why is that the most stable nations are the most ‘moral’?

I’d like to see Fan Hulic become the Han Solo of the series.

Fan Hulic could use some more work, both in character and in series, but there is still time to give the bloke some depth.

@TwilightShiva
Soon Fan will be turning tricks at a turnpike…Maybe Francia can be head of Tytania…the shadow queen if you will.

@Zentari
Hopefully Greenie’s turn will come, but it might be later rather than sooner.

@Halcyon
With anime you can never be too sure it is really a woman…be a real shame if Fan’s luck with women dropped even lower.

Women problems aside I hope they flesh out this Fan Hulic most heroic of the jobless a bit more.

@Square
It seems that the show is trying to encourage us to think a couple moves ahead at least.

@lubczyk
Let’s hope it stays a bit high minded in the dialogue, other wise it might go down as LOGH for dummies…

@ghostlightning
I hope that they will reveal how long this show will run other wise if it gets nipped then we will only have a shadow of a series.

@RogerOskaner
It’s a series that is a bit harder to blog because of the heavy dialogue, but for LOGH fans this is something to be hopeful for.

And for anybody who’s enjoying Tytania right now, I just have to reccommend Legend of the Galactic Heroes – by the same writer of the original novels just like Tytania, and directed by the same director. It’s a classic and one of the best space operas ever made, I’m sure you’ll all love it.

It’s refreshing to finally watch a show that doesn’t assume its audience are stupid, ADHD, action-crazed 12-year old boys.

hmm seems like a more chess like show, i’m going to wait till there’s more eps out since the pacing is still in intro/build foundation mode.

Ironic that Fan’s victory would get him fired by Euria’s Mayor and basically exiled from the planet. WAY TO TREAT YOUR HERO AND SAVIOR. Ungrateful bastards. I hope they get bombed by Duke Blondie.

In regards to the women issue, they’ve already touched on Fan’s history with women and in the ending theme you can see that there’s one woman that keeps popping up next to (or behind) Fan during the sequence. So it looks like there’s definitely going to be some female presence in Tytania to rein in Fan’s rampant womanizing cavalier nature.

For some reason, every time I think of Fan Hulic, Erroll Flynn pops into my head. May be because they both have weird sounding names or both have that playboy character about them.

Either way, Tytania is succeeding where most shows this season are failing by having interesting characters, crisp dialogue, a strong overarching plot and decent animation.

Easily my second favorite show behind Gundam 00.