Drink #022: Berliner Weisse mit Schuss,
A Legend of the Galactic Heroes Discussion
In this episode, we discuss the epic, the legendary, the greatest anime space opera Legend of the Galactic Heroes. With so much material, we couldn’t do it alone so we invited Caleb from Otaku USA and Vinny from All Geeks Considered to help us out.
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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:
Berliner Weisse mit Schuss
1 ounce red-raspberry flavored syrup (or green Waldmeister sweet woodruff syrup)
16 ounces light German wheat beer
Pour a 1 oz schuss of waldmeister or raspberry syrup into a large wheat-beer glass. Slowly add 16 oz cold Berliner Kindl Weisse or other light German-style wheat beer.
It is rather hard to believe but we’ve watched all of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. ALL OF IT! But it seems like less of a celebrated victory and more of a melancholy reality that this is all there is to the epic of Reinhard and Yang. I don’t have to say too much because if you’ve made it to the movies you are already invested. But actually it is worth nothing that you could watch (two out of three) the films to know if this is a series you want to dive into.
And so we come full circle with Legend of the Galactic Heroes. We started in the middle of Reinhard’s plot to overthrow the Empire and followed Yang and Reinhard’s rise and fall through the ranks in four arcs as both men tried to nurture their ideals. We then went back with two side stories that showed how both men were molded by the corrupt systems that raised them but remained true to higher ideals. These last three movies tie both of the halves together. Our lasts steps in this unimaginable space operas has us re-examining where it all began. 
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