Tytania – Episode 1
October 9, 2008
Politics, space battles, and bubble gum! 
Genres: science fiction
Plot Summary: The capital of the empire of Euria is attacked by the empire of Titania, a much more powerful enemy that controls a large part of the galaxy. The story follows a soldier who flees the Titania empire and seeks refuge with the rebellion force, that rose up since the battle.
Director: Noboru Ishiguro (Legend of the Galactic Heroes, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?). He is 70 years old, so it might be his last work.
Original creator: Yoshiki Tanaka (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
Original Character Design: Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross, Gunbuster)
Mechanical design: Kazutaka Miyatake (Macross, Gundam, RahXephon)
Color design: Tomoko Yamazaki (Mushishi)
Sound director: Susumu Aketagawa (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
Opening
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- Duke Ariabart Tytania
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- Duke Jouslain Tytania
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- Duke Zalisch Tytania
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- Duke Idris Tytania
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- The Unfallen King – Ajuman Tytania
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- Beginning of the Episode
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- Ships look like they move underwater. This is the main ship of Tytania.
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- Vardhana Empire – Crystal Palace
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- Idris Tytania: “The emperor is merely an ornament”
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- The masses can be easily swayed. Tytania has to become the figure they fear, then its bloodline and influence will carry on forever.
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- “I pity those people who are to be made sacrificial goods”
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- Report about Euria opponent: Ariabart Tytania is a man of beauty, intelligence, and it is rumored that he never lost a battle.
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- Admiral Fan Hulic is the commander of the Euria fleet.
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- Bubble gum captain! :)
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- The Empire of Vardhana, greatest in the universe, holds a birthday celebration for Emperor Harsha VI.
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- Tytania Clan was once only a part of the Empire and didnt hold a territory on its own, but now the vast universe and humanity is rulled by that single clan.
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- Minister Salomon
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- “Behold the tribute of His Majesty’s servant, Tytania clan, for him!”
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- “I would like to give a more extravagant tribute to His Majesty”
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- “It is the gift of glory for the next 100 years, just like the honorable Minister said”
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- “I have executed a traitor for the Empire and his Majesty”
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- He is actually reloading the gun while the guards can’t do anything!
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- “It is a sheer waste of time to hold a trial for someone we already know to be guilty”
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- Ute!
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- Too many lasers >.>
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- Euria have been working on an advanced technology for a long time and Tytania wanted to get a hold of it.
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- Ever scene of the battle is being broadcast throughout the universe
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- The explosions also look like they occur under water
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- Lydia
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- “I respect them for not running away in a situation like this”
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- Ariabart Tytania proceeds with the classical approach to this situation
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- Get ready to run! lol
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- This is clearly a trap!
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- Ariabart Tytania orders to advance the main ship, Golden Sheep, because it would be unethical to sit back here as Tytania’s commander while the enemy commander fights in the front lines.
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- Idris and Zalisch depart because they think the battle is over, but Jouslain and Ajman remain.
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- Necessary fuel
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- Whigerd Cannon!
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- It would be suicide to fire those weapons in close proximity to the ships because they explode, but the red ship is actually unmanned lol
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- Wise Ajman orders to cut off all broadcast connections :P
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- Both parties retreat
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- This respectible opponent has shown me something interesting. With this Tytania’s 100 years of peace will be assured.
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- Ending
Ending
The visual presentation was quite pleasing: diverse perspectives, superimposed scenes, and interesting transitions. It seems that Noboru Ishiguro really likes to closeup on one person and the leave another one in the background. The character’s names appear upon first appearance, just like in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The space battles looked like they were happening under water… I really liked the images of the ending
Music was appropriate and set the atmosphere well. However, I felt it was little too dramatic at times. Plenty of laser shooting sounds 
Voice actors performed well, but I am not particularly excited about any of them. I’ll keep my judgment of the story for later.
Keep in mind that the anime is based on the novels by Yoshiki Tanaka that are not complete yet, and the author stopped working on them in 1991. That is not a good sign, but we’ll see how it will turn out. The writer for Tytania anime is Kenichi Kanemaki (Ai Yori Aoshi, Hell Girl, Negima, Pretear, Record of Lodoss War, Rumbling Hearts, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei).
I’ll definitely keep watching and blogging about Tytania
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So I’ve watched this RAW and noticed one major flaw… There’s no females. The only one (maybe two) only appear in the ED.
The battles remind me more of the Crest/Banner of the Stars series… but less aristocrats having tea in the midst of a battle (granted, one did take a bath…)
Lydia appeared in the middle of the episode, but I see what you mean – no Nagi in this one
Nothing tastes better than a fresh tea in the midst of a battle
I’m glad you liked it, I plan on watching it soon, so I feel a bit relieved that someone had some praise to give this show. I’ll stick with this show for the rest of the season.
Ah, good to hear that you’ll keep watching it
Ffviiknight, I updated the post to address the important issue you raised
Also I updated the post with some information based on the subs.
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