Is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) good to watch with a friend?
A couple of weeks. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) (Legend of Galactic Heroes Side Stories (2nd Season)) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 1999 by Artland, J.C.Staff: 28 episodes, about 12 hours in total, finished, 8/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a couple of weeks. 28 episodes is about 12 hours: 14 evenings at two a night. Agree on a pace before you start. Rule: 13–99 episodes without a lighter tag → a couple of weeks.
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
- 28
- Episode length
- 26 min
- Total time
- about 12 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Fall 1999
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Artland, J.C.Staff, K-Factory Inc., Magic Bus
- Score
- 8/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, 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 the Galactic Heroes Gaiden Season 2; Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden; Legend of Galactic Heroes: Spiral Labyrinth; Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden (2).
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999)?
- About 12 hours for all 28 episodes at 26 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 14 evenings.
- How many episodes does Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) have?
- 28 episodes of 26 min.
- Is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) finished?
- Yes, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) is finished (28 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) good for a group?
- Yes. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) listed?
- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999) is on AniList (id 3665) and MyAnimeList (id 3665); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists