Die Neue These re-introduces the story of the 150-year war between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance. Through the Galactic Empire, we see the story of Count Reinhard, and with the Free Planets Alliance, viewers are given the point of view of the young strategist, Yang Wen-Li. Despite their respective accomplishments and positions, not only do they have to face each other in battle, they also have to face the establishment of their respective nations.

For starters, Wen-Li is probably the best tactician is anime history. He came to fame when he successfully evacuated 3 million civilians on El Facil after his superiors abandoned the planet upon news of an invasion by the Empire. If anything, he is so great to the point that the US Joints Chiefs of Staff would want him to figure out how to deal with certain real-life issues like Syria. Every time he’s been put on the front lines as the man in charge, he has never lost. Every losing battle he’s been involved in, it was because he wasn’t in charge and his superiors didn’t listen to his accurate advice.

Whenever he’s asked how he became such a great strategist, all he just simply said was he learned from the history of previous battles. While his mediocre grades at the academy’s strategic classes don’t reflect his battlefield achievements, his hobby of history passed down to him from his father gave him the insights necessary to understand the mistakes of his predecessors. Wen-Li is a living embodiment of history being doomed to repeat itself if we don’t learn from it, and the fact that he goes undefeated in his deployments shows he’s always ready.

Despite his position as a highly respected ranking officer within the Alliance, by no means is he a sheep to the establishment. When he attended a speech of the Defense Secretary, he chose not to applaud him knowing that the deaths of a recent battle they were paying memorial to were only being used to advance his agenda. Instead, he chose to support an old friend of his who was protesting the war due to the loss of her fiancee, who was also a friend of Wen-Li’s. It wasn’t only about supporting his friend but also supporting freedom of speech. Not only does he become an enemy of the Empire, but also an enemy to the establishment of the Alliance as his career advances.

Just like Bruce Wayne, he takes in a ward, Julian Mintz. After much persuasion from a government official on the financial benefits he would get from taking in a war orphan, he chooses to adopt Julian as his ward. Julian is always there to make him tea, breakfast, wake him up and keep the house clean. Anyone who is never home to have it taken care would be thankful to have someone like Julian to keep things steady while out on the job for months at a time.