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Seikai Trilogy Vol. 2 (of 2): Banner of the Stars:

Today's BGM:

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Naked Abh on the front inside cover. Sure. Actually she's on the back cover in color but you don't see anything there.

The war between the Abh Empire and the Triple Alliance (yes it was four but one of the groups is pacifist and isn't fighting) is at a deadlock, but the Abh have built up a wave of reinforcements that is expected to bring things to a close. Our peeps are still in training, looks like. Lafiel gets sulky after losing a simulated skirmish. Everybody on the bridge has figured out that she and Jinto have a particular bond, so it falls to him to cheer her up, as nobody else wants to face her crankiness.

Skip ahead a bit, and things are going well in the war. We finally get called up and placed under Atosuryua, who is the little sister of the jerky guy from the first volume. She doesn't seem too bent out of shape that we killed her big bro, or maaaaybe she's just biding her time for revenge.

Side note: Jinto has a cat Diaho, and Lafiel is pretty tsundere towards it. (and everything else, really, but to be fair it's weird having a cat on a combat ship) When Lafiel was little, her dad tricked her into thinking Diaho's grandmother supplied half of Lafiel's genes.

First battle goes pretty okay! Atosuryua invites us to a birthday dinner for her dead brother, which is apparently a thing with the Abh. It's awkward, but we accept. I was getting some Red Wedding vibes from the dinner, but nothing happens and Atosuryua might actually genuinely be cool with us. Maybe.

Battle the second is a bit trickier- we have to defend a gate until the main army arrives. The battle is a victory, but our ship is destroyed. Jinto gets trapped trying to help an officer abandon ship, and Lafiel comes to rescue him. OTP is progressing nicely, not that there was ever really any doubt it was gonna be a thing. We timeskip through a brief administrative stint and a small vacation, and end with a couple pages of the cat hanging out, since we'll be leaving him behind.

My rating: 9/10
I dunno, the space battles aren't doing much for me (having watched Legend of Galactic Heroes, I expect much longer and more strategic experiences :P) but I am just attached to the characters and artstyle. As mentioned earlier, I dropped this when they changed the artist for the final volume, but now I kinda wanna see it through if I can find a copy

Overall: 9/10
Probably a bit of this rating is nostalgia, but eh, it's fun, and like I said sci-fi has been growing on me. A race of photogenic anime space elves doesn't really hurt either I guess, and I do enjoy me a well-executed tsundere >_> Lots of fanservice, but at least everybody's of age, and it tends to be more in the realm of sexy chapter art or male gaze than contrived sequences within the actual story.

Discussion question: Favorite Sci-fi?
Hint for next: We're going particularly old-school again.
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