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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (movie)

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Alternative title:
Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel: Die Ouvertüre eines neuen Krieges (German)
銀河英雄伝説外伝／新たなる戦いの序曲（オーヴァチュア） (Japanese)
銀河英雄傳說外傳 全新戰役之序曲 (Japanese)
은하영웅전설 새로운 싸움의 서곡 (Korean)
Themes: military, space
Plot Summary: This is a retelling of the first 2 episodes of the Legend of Galactic Heroes OAV series. It gives additional details of the background of Yang Wenli and his first encounter with Reinhard's fleets of the Galactic Empire.
User Ratings: 207 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 75 votes (sub:70, raw:2, dub:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 51 votes (sub:49, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 41 votes (sub:38, others:3
3 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 14 votes (sub:10, dub:1, others:3
1 Polish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Decent: 13 votes (sub:12, ?:1)
 So-so: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:7)
Seen in part or in whole by 288 users, rank: #3104 (of 9585)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.386 (Very good+), std. dev.: 2.1412, rank: #245 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 8.498 (Very good+), rank: #155 (of 9708) (seen all: 8.49 / seen some: 9.91)
Bayesian estimate: 8.434 (Very good+), rank: #79 (of 7289)
Running time: 90 minutes
Vintage: 1993
Premiere date:
1993-12-18 (Japan)
Links: We have 1
News: Show:
HIDIVE to Add Legend of the Galactic Heroes Films to Streaming Catalog (Dec 14, 2018)
Crunchyroll Adds Cobra the Animation Videos, TV Series (Dec 18, 2009)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Legend of the Galactic Heroes [Limited Edition][Sentai Filmworks Shop Exclusive] (Sub.Blu-ray) 2018-08-24

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Keizō Shimizu
Kenichi Maeda
Script: Shimao Kawanaka
Storyboard:
Kenichi Maejima
Raisen Hanyū
Original story: Yoshiki Tanaka
Original Character Design:
Hisatoshi Motoki
Kazunari Kume
Matsuri Okuda
Character Design: Yūji Ikeda
Animation Director: Yūji Ikeda
Mechanical design: Naoyuki Katō
Sound Director: Susumu Aketagawa
Director of Photography: Hideo Okazaki
Executive producer: Tatsumi Yamashita
Producer:
Masatoshi Tahara
Michio Yokoo
Yukio Kikukawa

Assistant Animation Director:
Kazunori Iwakura
Kenji Mizuhata
Kyoko Chino
Assistant Director: Noboru Ishiguro
Background Art:
Eiko Sawada
Rumiko Shindo
Yasushi Nakamura
Yōko Ichihara
Editing:
Harutoshi Ogata
Satoshi Terauchi
Yukiko Itō
Finish Animation:
Junko Igarashi
Kazuko Uehara
Koyuki Kaneda
Nobue Matsufuji
Sachiko Takamizawa
Toshiko Sakai
In-Between Animation:
Keisuke Hamada
Masako Onozawa
Masumi Hattori
Reiko Ikebe
Satoshi Nishimura
Shinichi Shigematsu
Key Animation:
Hidetoshi Namura
Hiroyuki Ohnishi
Ichiro Hattori
Ichizō Kobayashi
Kanae Sugiyama
Kazunori Iwakura
Kazuya Komai
Kenzō Koizumi
Kiichi Suzuno
Kumiko Kasuga
Kyoko Chino
Masakazu Kawazoe
Masami Nagata
Michitaka Yamamoto
Mitsumasa Kimura
Motoki Yagi
Norimoto Tokura
Osamu Satō
Satoshi Shigeta
Setsuko Nobuzane
Shigeki Noda
Shigeki Sato
Shigeyuki Teraji
Shūji Sakamoto
Takashi Iwao
Tomohiro Kawahara
Toshihiko Shimada
Yoshiaki Mizuno
Yoshio Usuda
Yūichi Satō
Yūji Kokai
Yutaka Karyu
Mechanical animation Director: Hideki Takahashi
Photography:
Hideo Okazaki
Mayumi Kawamoto
Mitsue Inukai
Motomitsu Hoshino
Shigenari Nishi
Planning:
Hideo Ogata
Toshihiro Sakai
Production Advancement:
Fumihiro Ueno
Masanori Sawamura
Production Committee:
Akira Kaneko
Hiroyuki Kato
Ryoko Tsutsui
Shōzō Yoshida
Production Desk: Shigeharu Sekiguchi
Production manager: Satoshi Dezaki
Production producer: Yoshiyuki Matsuzaki
Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi
Sound Production: Takeshi Takadera
Special Effects: Takashi Maekawa
Kei Tomiyama as Yang Wen-li
Ryō Horikawa as Reinhard von Lohengramm

Arihiro Masuda as Ahmed
Eiji Itō as Gordonof
Gorō Naya as Merkatz
Hidekatsu Shibata as Gregor von Muckenberger
Hideyuki Tanaka as Jean Robert Lap
Hiroshi Ito as Klaus von Lichtenlade
Hiroshi Naka as Kim
Hiroya Ishimaru as Karl Robert Steinmetz
Hiroyuki Satō as Sanders
Hisashi Katsuta as Steinhof
Ichirō Murakoshi as Staden
Issei Futamata as Flegel
Jouji Yanami as Gerlach
Kan Tokumaru as Paeta
Katsuji Mori as Mittermeyer
Kazuhiko Inoue as Attenborough
Keaton Yamada as Alex Cazerne
Keiji Fujiwara as Carlos
Keiko Han as Annerose Von Grunewald
Kenji Utsumi as Sidney Sithole
Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Rubinsky
Kōji Ishii as Pastolle
Mami Koyama as Jessica Edwards
Mari Yokoo as Magdalena von Westfalen
Masaharu Satō as Ehrenberg
Masaki Aizawa as Eriksen
Masashi Hironaka as Siegfried Kircheis
Masato Hirano as Moore
Matsuo Matsuo as
Fogel
Magadi
Norio Wakamoto as Reuenthal
Nozomu Sasaki as Julian Mintz
Osamu Kobayashi as Prince Braunshweig
Osamu Saka as Friedrich IV
Ryūzō Ishino as Nann
Shō Hayami as Fahrenheit
Sukekiyo Kameyama as Lao
Takaya Hashi as Mecklinger
Tatsuyuki Jinnai as Nicholas Boltik
Tetsuya Iwanaga as Tananchai
Unshō Ishizuka as Truniht
Yamada Ki-tan as Cazellnu
Yūichi Meguro as Bernhard von Schneider
Yūsaku Yara as Erlache

Mari Maruta
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Producer: John Ledford

Booklet Editing:
Alexandra Bedford
Kjell Doucet
Natalie Jones
Booklet Layout: Larry Koteff
Booklet Translation:
Javier Lopez
Matthew Warner
Head Translator: Neil Nadelman
Production:
Crystal Ruiz
Janice Williams
Joey Goubeaud
Son Phan Le
Production Assistant:
Alexandra Bedford
E.W. Rector, III
Jose DeArmas
Kjell Doucet
Natalie Jones
Ned Gayle
Shannon Reed
Production Coordination: Janice Williams
Production manager: Son Phan Le
Subtitling: Janice Williams
Supervising Producer: Janice Williams
Supervising Translator: Javier Lopez
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
(none)
English companies
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Sentai Studios
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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