Empire's Afterglow (episode)

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'Empire's Afterglow' (「帝国の残照」)
LOGH: series 1, episode 4 released 1989/01/??
March 796 UC (487 IC / 3596 CE)
←	4th of 110 released in LOGH	→
←	5th of 213 released in all	→

Empire's Afterglow (Japanese: 帝国の残照) is the 4th episode of the Legend of Galactic Heroes OVA.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Appendices 2.1 Memorable quotes 2.2 Music 2.3 Cast 2.4 Production staff 2.5 Apocrypha

Synopsis

After his overwhelming victory at the Battle of Astarte, Reinhard von Lohengramm returns to the Imperial Capital on Odin and is promoted to the rank of Fleet Admiral and appointed as Vice Commander of the Imperial Space Fleet. Together with Siegfried Kircheis, Reinhard visits his sister, Annerose von Grünewald, favoured concubine of Kaiser Friedrich IV.

Kircheis contemplates the past, remembering how he first met Reinhard and Annerose; how Annerose was taken from her family, and how the loss of his sister ignited Reinhard's ambitions to depose the tyranny of the high nobles and the Goldenbaum Dynasty.

Appendices

Memorable quotes

"Sieg, be good friends with my little brother, won't you?"

– Annerose von Grünewald, to Siegfried Kircheis during their first meeting

"I will do everything I can for the sake of your future."

– Annerose, to Reinhard before she was led away to Neue Sanssouci

Music

• Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C minor (Op. 46/B. 83) (00:01:31)
• Imperial military anthem (00:02:03)
• Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll (WWV 103) (00:07:05)
• Johannes Brahms – Seven Fantasias for Piano (Op. 116): II. Intermezzo in A minor (00:13:15)
• Richard Wagner – Symphony in C major (WWV 29): I. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio (00:14:00)
• Max Reger – Ballet Suite for Orchestra (Op. 130): V. Valse d'amour (00:16:58)
• Richard Wagner – Symphony in C major (WWV 29): II. Andante ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (00:20:19)

Cast

• Horikawa Ryō as Reinhard von Lohengramm
• Hironaka Masashi as Siegfried Kircheis
• Han Keiko as Annerose von Grünewald
• Shiozawa Kaneto as Paul von Oberstein
• Shibata Hidekatsu as Gregor von Mückenberger
• Saka Osamu as Friedrich IV
• Gōri Daisuke as Ovlesser
• Yada Kōji as Sebastian von Müsel
• Ōkura Masaaki, Matsuo Ginzō
• Yara Yūsaku as Narrator

Production staff

• Screenplay: Endō Akinori
• Storyboard: Fukutomi Hiroshi
• Episode director: Tomizawa Kazuo
• Animation director: Aoki Tetsurō

Apocrypha

• The events of this episode took place chronologically before that of LOGH: 'Birth of the 13th Fleet' in the original novels in Volume 1, Chapter 3.

Previous episode: 'Birth of the 13th Fleet'

Legend of Galactic Heroes (OVA) Series 1

Next episode: 'The Castrop Rebellion'