Introduction
The Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance have been locked in a seemingly endless war for more than a century and a half. In the Empire, a young Siegfried Kircheis meets Reinhard von Müsel and his older sister Annerose. Kircheis enjoys a happy friendship with the two beautiful blonde-haired siblings until the day that their alcoholic father, a lesser nobleman with low standing, accepts a request for Annerose to be sold as a concubine to the Kaiser. Although enraged, Reinhard is powerless to stop the whims of the Imperial Court. He and his father soon move away, leaving Kircheis behind.
A few years later, Reinhard returns in a military uniform and declares his intent to rise through the ranks and free his sister from sexual servitude. Kircheis joins Reinhard on this daring journey to save Annerose, yearning to forever stay by the side of his friends.
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Audience reviews
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Cayusashi
For such a phenomenal series, this movie is a rather disappointing story albeit not terrible. Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings is shallow and missing what I love most about the series: political commentary with substance.
Chronologically the first event in the timeline, Golden Wings remastered the backstory of Reinhard and Kircheis along side adding context to how they proved their genius on the galactic battlefield. The first act is essentially a reanimated version of an episode with the other two acts continuing where the show did not without the same level of detail. We see Reinhard and Kircheis earning the respect of the troops they command, but this is the most depth to the story. The main antagonist is a guy hired by a completely irrelevant single episode antagonist from…
Read at the sourceWdaCdaShdaDid
I honestly really enjoyed this, though I didn't grow up with this series and so have no nostalgia glasses for it. If you like Reinhard and Kircheis' relationship, I would highly recommend you not skip this, as I see a lot of people suggest. It's not the best film there is, and the writing is often quite bad, but it's really a treat for their relationship in particular.
The writing is quite bad in a number of places. It's predictable, too. But honestly, the character interactions were the more compelling aspect, so I didn't mind.
I watched this after watching the first film and some of the first animated series, so I was familiar with the characters and had already seen versions of scenes included in the story. One of the scenes I saw before starting this was when Reinhard and Kircheis me…
Read at the sourceLost_Viking
The majority of people are going to be watching Golden Wings after seeing the main series of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. As one of those people, Golden Wings was painful to watch.
Where do I begin?:
-Dusty Attenborough and Yang Wenli look nothing like their characters from the original series, and Yang's voice actor and personality are even radically different
-On some of the Imperial characters, the uniforms look so different that you'd think they're Alliance uniforms at a glance
-There's barely any storyline perspective of the Alliance
-There's barely any interesting storyline at all save for what we already know from LoGH
-The music is mediocre at best compared to LoGH
If you've never seen LoGH this might be OK, but if you have stay away from this disappointment of a movie.
Read at the sourceAbby-
Okay, this definitely won't be an objective review, but at the very least I'll try to make it descriptive and hopefully understandable, even for people who disagree with me. There's not really any need for another review of this, I just really feel like putting my negative thoughts about this movie into words.
As I said, this won't be objective, and it's coming from the perspective of a fan of the main series, and my criticisms are intended to be read by other fans of the series (after all, I don't see why anyone else would watch this). On its own, this movie might have been "okay", nothing great, but really nothing worth getting worked up over. But since it's so heavily associated with the established characters and plot line of what is my favorite anime, I can't help but find it frustra…
Read at the sourceJohn-Wayne
Well this was a let down. If you're watching this it's because you've seen and liked the other OVA's/movies.
The art is lacking, some characters are hardly recognizable, both in look and voice. But that's not the worst part.
This movie lacks consistency of information that you get from the other movies/OVA's. It contradicts with what you already know.
4/10, pretty bad compared to what you would expect from such a great series/franchise.
Read at the sourceggultra2764
Whoever was involved in making this movie within the Legend of the Galactic Heroes franchise made something that is quite the far cry from the quality writing and presentation one would expect from the franchise. Golden Wings' presentation is significantly different from other chapters of the LoGH franchise sporting a far different drawing style, new voice actors in the roles of the show's prominent characters, taking away the title's famous orchestral music scores for generic dramatic pieces and dumbing down the writing of the series to the point where this movie gets in the annoying habit of rubbing in your face the ordeals faced by Reinhard and Kircheis. The last mentioned issue was one that really irked me as other titles within LoGH are well known for their intelligent writing that ex…
Read at the sourceBeatnik
Golden Wings is a slight misstep in the Legends of the Galactic Heroes franchise, not enough to stumble on its face but not enough to style it out by whistling innocently and pretending it didn’t almost trip over.
It’s best to watch this movie after episode 54 of the LotGH OVA, as this movie was released after that and before episode 55. The story is set before the OVA, but after watching 54 episodes of Reinhard ascend through the ranks of the military and getting comfortable with his acquaintance, you can get the most satisfaction out of Golden Wings in seeing him ascend through the ranks of military school and learn how he matured into an adult.
All the characters from the OVA are near unrecognisable in their new incarnations in this movie. It’s the first thing to hit you if you've bee…
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