Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5306

I really dislike the info dumps on heir history. It feels like a waste of time because I am not able to remember any of the names or dates anyways. It's like Guy x ruled then he was murdered, then Guy y ruled, liked abc and died in year bla, then guy z ruled but got assassinated. And it's not like I care for the history of monarchic heirs in RL, either. Just plain boring to me. All that it accomplished for me was to show how troublesome a Kaiser's life is and what is in for Reinhard in the future.

I liked the history session about the earth a few episodes ago way more. That one was really good and interesting.

Namely why did Yang fight Reinhard's Empire? Everything we know about Yang points to him hating useless war and having a strong idea of personal freedom. He knows the Alliance's system doesn't care about it's people anymore while seeing Reinhard's new Empire do everything he believes in to care about it's people. Everything suggests that the people of the Alliance will be better off under Empire rule. Then you have the issue of Yang knowing it's a war he can never win. The Alliance will never let him fight Reinhard on even footing even if they current strength wasn't so depleted. So why didn't Yang just surrender as soon as it was clear that Reinhard was ready to invade? That move would save millions of lives and free the people of the Alliance from this tyrannical rule. As soon as Yang's fleet is no longer blocking the Empire the rest of the military will crumble. Yang could have easily become Reinhard's new Kircheis to temper him while he builds systems in place to make sure that after his rule is over the people will still be safe.

It just puzzled me then and now it puzzles me again

It's something about even when there is a benevolent dictator, there is no guarantee that the success will also be nice. Mediocrity is better for the long run than some knucklehead ruining everything I suppose.

Hmmk, seems a bit weird for his character. Working with a benevolent dictator to create a better society after the benevolent dictator seems like a far better idea than sitting with a corrupt democracy. Reinhard is basically the perfect dictator in this regard and Yang has all this info at this disposal.

The second point is more damning to me. He knows it's a useless war and they will never win. That goes against his character yet he still does it. Is it a case of it's better to fight and lose than to just give up?

Maria almost managed to ruin that season on her own, thank god Ver managed to pull it back up to FUN towards the end

The thing I never really got about him was that he was first praised to be untouched and young and thus pure without evil thoughts. Later it turns out that this is exactly the reason why he is so vulnerable to be taken over by fiends because he is totally jealous, emotional and negatively tempered. Really made no sense with the way they described him when he got contracted.

The problem with dictatorships is that the current dictator has the say in everything. It pretty much doesn't matter what the predecessor did because the current one can easily reverse it all.

It's also fact that Yang doesn't know nearly as much as we do. All he knows is from more or less biased sources without ever seeing for himself, let alone meet Reinhard. He meets Reinhard for the first time when the Alliance got defeated.
It's also fact that, while Yang certainly cares for his people, he is not selfless and lazy. It's an important part of his character. From all the information he had it was certainly not a safe bet to just surrender. Neither for his good nor for that of his people.

I don't know how far you are with your rewatch but there are some really good conversations with Yang (one being with Julian irrc) exactly about this topic. So you might get some more in-depth insights into his way of thinking there.