Before the Storm (episode)

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'Before the Storm' (「嵐の前」)
LOGH: series 1, episode 17 released 1989/04/??
January 797 UC (488 IC / 3597 CE)
←	17th of 110 released in LOGH	→
←	18th of 213 released in all	→

Before the Storm (Japanese: 嵐の前) is the 17th episode of the Legend of Galactic Heroes OVA.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Appendices 2.1 Music 2.2 Cast 2.3 Production staff

Synopsis

Julian Mintz asks Frederica Greenhill how Yang Wen-li became the "Hero of El Facil" 9 years ago. The Free Planets Alliance fleet stationed around the frontier planet El Facil, led by Arthur Lynch, fled the approaching Imperial Fleet, leaving 3 million civilians behind; Yang, one of the few officers left, organised an evacuation while the escaping Alliance fleet was defeated and captured. Meanwhile, in the Empire, Reinhard von Lohengramm thinks a civil war is about to break out; in order to avoid an intervention from the Alliance, he decides to plant Lynch into the Alliance to stage a military coup. The move is hidden behind an exchange of 2 million prisoners of war in January 797 UC (488 IC / 3597 CE).

Appendices

Music

• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3: I. Kraftig. Entschieden (00:01:31)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 4: I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen (00:03:31)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 10 [Cooke version]: V. Finale (00:04:59)
• Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 7 in D minor (Op. 70/B. 141): IV. Finale: Allegro (00:11:40)
• Imperial military anthem (00:11:52)
• Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 8 in G major (Op. 88/B. 163): IV. Allegro ma non troppo (00:13:50)
• Free Planets Alliance national anthem (00:15:36)
• Richard Wagner – Symphony in C major (WWV 29): I. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio (00:21:52)

Cast

• Horikawa Ryō as Reinhard von Lohengramm
• Hironaka Masashi as Siegfried Kircheis
• Tomiyama Kei as Yang Wen-li
• Sakakibara Yoshiko as Frederica Greenhill
• Sasaki Nozomu as Julian Mintz
• Shiozawa Kaneto as Paul von Oberstein
• Tomita Kōsei as Alexandre Bewcock
• Hazama Michio as Walter von Schönkopf
• Aono Takeshi as Murai
• Suzuki Taimei as Edwin Fischer
• Inoue Kazuhiko as Dusty Attemborough
• Masamune Issei as Man in the basement
• Furuya Tōru as Man in the basement
• Mizutori Tetsuo as Man in the basement
• Shima Shunsuke as Man in the basement
• Ikemizu Michihiro as Man in the basement
• Furukawa Toshio as Olivier Poplin
• Suzuoki Hirotaka as Ivan Konev
• Shioya Kōzō as Fyodor Patrichev
• Hirose Masashi as Arthur Lynch
• Ishizuka Unshō as Job Trunicht
• Nagabata Yumi
• Yara Yūsaku as Narrator

Production staff

• Screenplay: Kawanaka Shimao
• Storyboard: Sakai Akio
• Episode director: Sakai Akio
• Animation director: Sakai Akio

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Legend of Galactic Heroes (OVA) Series 1

Next episode: 'The Lippstadt Conspiracy'