The first season, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Kaikō (The New Thesis: Star-Crossed), will air as a 12-episode series.
G’s new anime of Yoshiki Tanaka’s epic science fiction novels The Legend of the Galactic Heroes revealed a new visual, screenshots, and a story introduction for the first episode from the anime on Thursday.
The event screenings of the second “season,” The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran (The New Thesis: Stellar War), will then play in theaters, as three films of four episodes each, in 2019.
Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko’s Basketball, STARMYU) is directing the anime at Production I.G. Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!, Kuroko’s Basketball) is in charge of the series scripts.