Let me introduce myself, I'm Abelardo and I'm from Mexico. Back when I was younger I watched a lot of anime a long time ago and last year I downloaded a few of my favorite classic anime from those days, in Mexico we had a few classic anime series going (big ones were Robotech, Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball (and DBZ too, but I didn't watched that), we had a few other ones wich were not big hits as the formers, last year I downloaded all Macross classic, Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Moonspida (or whatever that one is called), I enjoyed Macross classic a lot and decided to try "new" classics and I stumbled upon Galaxy Express 999 wich I inmediatly loved and I'm looking forward to it. I saw you guys were releasing a lot of this "Leijiverse" series and I investigated, in Mexico they broadcasted Queen Millenia but all my attention was drawn to Saint Seiya wich was broadcasted at the same time, I didn't payed much attention to that series but I think it wouldn't matter anyways, I was about 13-14 years old and the story is very confusing (I recently saw Queen Millenia move and things were very confusing even now that I'm more familiar with the "Leijiverse"), wee didn't had GE999 nor Captain Harlock, but they were broadcasted in Spain and some south american countries, and some spanish group released Harlock, I downloaded the whole thing and watched some but there were some things I couldn't understand (or more exactly were not available, such as the past of Harlock, wich is shown in bits and pieces, and with caracters unknown to me at the moment). I bought some Galaxy Railways DVD's recently, it's great but not exactly what I'm looking for, so I downloaded Space Symphony Maetel here and that explained a lot of things (great series) but not everything makes sense, then I watched Queen Millenia move wich I thought would make things clearer, it did in a way but still the movie ended up too confusing, and now I'm watching Matel Legend with hopes of catching more bits and pieces of the whole story.
Anyways the point of my post is what is a good way to introduce this whole universe to someone who knows nothing about it? I recently tried to explain to a friend but my explanation was too confusing, based only on bits and pieces from here and there as I don't understand it very well myself (he told me he watched some Queen Millenia when it was broadcasted here and in his oppinion the series were too confusing at that time, and in the other hand we had Saint Seiya to draw our attention at that moment). I would love to see some sort of guide to this Leijiverse. I hope you can help me, I think Queen Millenia TV could be a good intro and I'm very glad you're fansubbing it, but right now with the current releses available (not only L-E ones, but by other groups as well) how can you understand the whole thing?, thank you.
Abelardo