Iserlohn Captured! (episode)

'Iserlohn Captured!' (「イゼルローン攻略！」)
LOGH: series 1, episode 7 released 1989/02/??
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May 796 UC (487 IC / 3596 CE)
←	7th of 110 released in LOGH	→
←	8th of 165 released in all	→

Iserlohn Captured! (Japanese: イゼルローン攻略！) is the 7th episode of the Legend of Galactic Heroes OVA.

Synopsis

On 14 May 796 UC (487 IC / 3596 CE), after infiltrating Iserlohn Fortress, Rosen Ritter commander Walter von Schönkopf gains access to Iserlohn's command centre. Once inside, he takes the fortress commander hostage, allowing the Rosen Ritter to seize control and enables the 13th Fleet to dock in Iserlohn Fortress. When the Iserlohn Fleet returns, personnel from the 13th Fleet fire the Thor Hammer, inflicting major damage on the Iserlohn Fleet. The Imperial forces then withdraw away from Iserlohn Fortress, and Yang Wen-li's 13th Fleet succeeds in capturing the fortress, dramatically altering the balance of power between the Galactic Empire, the Free Planets Alliance and the Dominion of Fezzan in the Alliance's favour.

Upon returning to Heinessen, Yang, under the belief that, with Iserlohn captured, the war would eventually end, submits a resignation letter to Sidney Sithole, the Chief of Joint Operations Headquarters, but was rejected by the latter.

Appendices

Music

• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 6 in A minor: I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig. (00:01:31)
• Free Planets Alliance national anthem (00:19:57)

Cast

• Tomiyama Kei as Yang Wen-li
• Hazama Michio as Walter von Schönkopf
• Sakakibara Yoshiko as Frederica Greenhill
• Shiozawa Kaneto as Paul von Oberstein
• Utsumi Kenji as Sidney Sithole
• Aono Takeshi as Murai
• Kosugi Jūrōta as Kasper Linz
• Nanba Keiichi as Rainer Blumhardt
• Nagai Ichirō as Thoma von Stockhausen
• Iizuka Shōzō as Hans Dietrich von Seeckt
• Akimoto Yōsuke as Remler
• Satō Hiroyuki as Ein
• Tanaka Kazumi as Ed
• Tobita Nobuo as Simon
• Kusao Takeshi as Hazuki
• Yara Yūsaku as Narrator

Production staff

• Screenplay: Toda Hiroshi
• Storyboard: Kogawa Tomonori
• Episode Director: Ishiguro Noboru, Noshitani Mitsutaka and Ueno Fumihiro
• Animation Director: Kogawa Tomonori and Suzuki Shinichi

Apocrypha

• In the original novels (Volume 1, Chapter 5), the Rosen Ritter seized control of Iserlohn Fortress by incapacitating the entire fortress garrison with hypnotic gas delivered via the fortress' air conditioning system after Schönkopf took Stockhausen hostage in the central command centre.