Magic Knight Rayearth II

Both deal with the problems of Autocracy. MKRII takes focus on the personal relationship difficulties of an autocrat, while LoGH downplays this and focuses on national-level politics. The MKRII approach is better in my opinion, as you get to actually feel the difficulty. 

This series reminded me more of LoGH more than almost any other series, despite it's appearance. Politics between various factions set in space. The atmosphere is very similar, I guess it makes some sense as both series share an episode director. A panning shot of a space-faring craft, discussion on the current situation among various characters, combat in space where the fight has some kind of consequence on the political situation. You see things through the perspectives of characters in both sides of a fight. The first season of MKR isn't much like it at all but on the other hand is a great adventure story with a lot of cool monster fights. read more