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NEWS: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gets New Anime Project by Production I.G in 2017

A lot of the main cast is still around and still working (except Yang Wenli's voice actor sadly). At least some of them can still be involved.

Still I can't imagine this will be as long as the original. I expect we will be lucky with a year long anime.

Nachtwandler wrote:

I prefer to trust the info here: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=584

Kitty Film wasn't really an animation studio; they were more like GENCO, a production company that hired animation studios for their projects.
Here you can see a detailed list of LOGH episodes and the animation studios who worked on it (under the 制作協力 credit):
LOGH Japanese Wikipedia page
You can see that Madhouse and Artland were majorly responsible for Part 1. Then Madhouse left the project and Artland and Magic Bus continued until the end. It is interesting to see that Shaft joined the project in Part 4.

I've wanted to see this series for awhile now, but it is long and rather old so I figured I would wait until the new anime. But 2017 is so far away... Let's hope the extra time allows them to make it awesome. I hope it's as long as the original series.

Modern anime fans wouldn't have the patience

I'm both excited and scared about this remake.
One thng for sure: new staff and cast have a VERY difficult task.
I especially don't envy composer, though. It's hard to compete with guys like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Chopin, Dvořák, etc.

Well, the original adaptation made it through all of the source material, so this is clearly Production I.G. doing their own thing.

That said, Legend of the Galactic Heroes really, really needed 162 episodes plus two out of its three movies to tell its story. So far as I'm concerned, Ishiguro's adaptation is probably the most impressive feat of storytelling in Japanese animation: always gripping, thought-provoking, internally consistent (okay, yes, except for Golden Wings, nitpickers, but that wasn't Ishiguro), easy-to-follow, and often shockingly moving, there's absolutely nothing else on the same scale that forms such a perfect unity.

Quality animation is always nice, but I have a really hard time imaging how production I.G. can add anything to the animated form of this splendidly operatic tale. It would be a flat-out impossibility to cover the story in anything less than fifty or sixty episodes, and that'd still involve cutting huge swaths of narrative—meaning that the best I can hope for here is a "greatest hits" compilation of the most impressive battles (Eighth Battle of Iserlohn, I'm looking at you) devoid of the political insight that made the original so great.

I've wanted to see this series for awhile now, but it is long and rather old so I figured I would wait until the new anime. But 2017 is so far away... Let's hope the extra time allows them to make it awesome. I hope it's as long as the original series.