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 on Wednesday that the anime will premiere on the Family Gekijo channel on April 3 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m. EDT).
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.
Atsushi Takeuchi, Shinji Usui (009 Re:Cyborg), and Shinobu Tsuneki (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Psycho-Pass) are drafting the mecha designs with original mecha designs by Naoyuki Kato (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes novel illustrations, Starship Troopers).