Is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (Legend of Galactic Heroes Side Stories (1st Season)) is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 1998 by Artland, K-Factory Inc.: 24 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.07/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 10 hours for the run, 12 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 24
- Episode length
- 26 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 1998
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Artland, K-Factory Inc., Magic Bus, Mushi Production
- Score
- 8.07/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, boys' love, detective, drama, military, space, politics, revenge, sci-fi, seinen, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Legend of Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars; Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden: A Hundred Billion Stars; Legend of Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights; Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights.
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More like this: action · boys' love · detective · drama · military · space · politics · revenge · sci-fi · seinen · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden?
- About 10 hours for all 24 episodes at 26 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden have?
- 24 episodes of 26 min.
- Is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden finished?
- Yes, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden good for a group?
- Yes. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden listed?
- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden is on AniList (id 3371) and MyAnimeList (id 3371); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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