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Here's the short version: forget it.
And now for the slightly longer account:
I've many times seen, in various articles, publications, websites, etc., the idea put forth that the various stories featuring Captain Harlock and assorted attendant characters don't fit into any proper chronology that could make any sense at all. After this declaration, which is significant and utterly true, the writer will then proceed to elaborate on some form of overarching continuity, as if they had suddenly been struck with a flat iron and were unable to remember their own prior assertion. Failure dogs their heels throughout the ill-fated attempt, and finally catches them and eats them. They have blown it.
There shall be no schizophrenic doubling back here. I'm here to tell you that any excercise in trying to fit all the Harlock stories under one umbrella is rather like trying to fit all the penguins in Antarctica under one umbrella, which is to say 1. futile, and 2. pointless.
There's a baker's dozen good reasons why it can't work, but let's begin with one of the biggest: a little guy named Tochiro Oyama, Harlock's bestest pal and the creator of the Arcadia, who (to date) has died three times in the animated incarnations of Harlock, in three different ways:

DVD Space Pirate Captain Harlock The Movie Eng Sub Ship +. DVD Anime Kobayashi San Chi No Maid Dragon Vol. 1-13 End English Dub Ship. $13.99 New + $3.00 Shipping. Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey Episode 5 English Subbed TV Sub Series Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey On an archaelogical mission to the end of the known universe, Professor Daiba unwitting unleashes an ancient horror from its confines.

In this dying universe, the space pirate Captain Harlock travels with his immensely powerful flagship, the Arcadia, to fulfill a mysterious purpose. The young Yama, brother of the Fleet Commander Ezra, is chosen to infiltrate the Arcadia's crew and discover the objective of the pirate captain.

The mere fact of a single character dying more than one time is enough to raise serious eyebrows for most of us, but it might be different if it were the same scene each time, occurring at a convergent place in the continuities of the three storylines. However, it's not. The first time, in the 1978 Space Pirate Captain Harlock series, Tochiro dies from an anemic attack mere minutes after the launching of the Arcadia. The second time sees Tochiro die in the wreck of Harlock's old ship the Deathshadow after catching a 'space disease' while in pursuit of the villainous Count Mecha, whereupon Galaxy Express 999's Tetsuro Hoshino assists him in transferring his consciousness into the central computer of the Arcadia, which has been cruising about without him for some time. And then, in the 1982 Endless Road SSX series, he dies yet again, this time catching a space disease after traveling through a wormhole to rescue Emeraldas. He has at this point been traveling aboard the Arcadia for several years, after which he returns to the Deathshadow's wreck to perform the upload of his brain again, only this time without Tetsuro's presence. His skinny-necked pet Mr. Bird is also absent, though he was living with Tochiro in the 999 version of the scene. In SSX, Bird is still on the Arcadia. And while we're on the subject, which Arcadia are we talking about, anyway?

In the Space Pirate series, Harlock is captain of the blue Arcadia, which we see Tochiro build on planet Heavy Meldar, a planet which then, much like Tochiro, buys the farm minutes later. (This planet is seen alive and well in both 999 films and the SSX series, well after the Arcadia's creation.) In the theatrical feature My Youth in Arcadia, Tochiro builds the ship yet again, this time the green, skull-nosed one that has appeared in virtually every other Harlock story since. Moreover, he builds it on earth this time. Are these two different ships?
No.
There have been plenty of theories put forth, often presented as facts, irritatingly enough, saying that one or the other ship was damaged or destroyed, and Tochiro had to build a new one, or rebuild the old one. The fact that there isn't a single frame of animation depicting this, nor do any of the characters ever say anything along these lines, tends to suggest that people are simply concocting comfortable notions to avoid having to deal with the (admittedly mild) brain-bender that both these ships are the same Arcadia. The change in design was due to nothing more than simple marketing issues: Takara owned the rights to model kits from Space Pirate, and Bandai owned the model rights to Galaxy Express 999. When the Arcadia was slated to appear in the first 999 film while Space Pirate was still on the air, it would've amounted to free advertising for Takara; therefore Bandai had Studio Nue design an alternate version for them, to avoid giving their primary competition any leg up. (Studio Nue had also designed the blue Arcadia, and would shortly gain fame for its Macross design work.) In its own way, it's not far removed from having two different actors portray the same character in two different TV seasons or movies, in which cases viewers rarely have to contrive wild notions of secret plastic surgery in order to deal with it. So deal, jackass.
The blue Arcadia also made a cameo appearance in the 999 television series in a three-part episode (episodes 79-81) titled 'Pirate of the Time Castle,' and has recently resurfaced in the new Queen Emeraldas OVA series (though now painted black.) Of course, its most recent and simultaneously most bizarre appearance is in the new Cosmo Warrior Zero mini-series, where it appears sporting the paint job of the green Arcadia, and is renamed the Deathshadow. Far from reconciling any of the disparate continuites, it simply gives us one more iteration in the category of 'things named Deathshadow.' The ship Deathshadow, Harlock's first command, appears in both 999 movies, the Arcadia movie and the SSX series, wherein it looks absolutely nothing like the blue Arcadia; in Space Pirate, Harlock's ship is quite definitely known as the Arcadia, while the name Deathshadow is given to a mobile dock for the ship and the actual planetoid it's modeled in semblance of. Continuity, I laugh at thee. Shall I compare thee to a mangled train wreck?

The third in the trio of space pirates at the core of this mythos, Emeraldas, presents her own contributions to this irreconcilable mishmash, the least of which being that in the Space Pirate series, she's known as 'Emeralda' instead (though interestingly, in the Space Pirate manga from which this series was rather loosely adapted, she's still known as Emeraldas.) It's also the only version of the story in which she and Tochiro conceive a child, the blue-haired woodwind extraordinaire Mayu. (Or rather, it's the only version wherein this fact is dealt with at all: the Endless Odyssey mini-series actually does show Mayu again, albeit briefly, but never bothers to tell the audience who she is. Newcomers beware.) In pretty much every other storyline, the two are in love but living separate lives, and in SSX, she's only begun to return his affections when he tragically bites the big one. She also may or may not have a scar on her face, a la Harlock. We'll see her get it twice, in two different ways.

There's a baker's zillion of fan articles out there calling the female pirate 'Esmerelda,' presumably written by people who have never heard her name spoken in any of the Japanese films in which she's featured. Take heed: she is never known by this name in any original Harlock anime or manga; I can only assume that either they've all watched the French-dubbed version Albator, where her name was in fact changed to 'Esmerelda,' or that's it's just a case of people not paying very close attention.
Newer Matsumoto anime has put forth the idea that Emeraldas and Galaxy Express 999's Maeter are actually sisters who grew up together on the planet LaMetalle (featured in the Queen Millennia series and movie,) but this is plainly a new idea that is flat-out incompatible with the older stories; witness the pair's first meeting-which is quite obviously their very first meeting-in the 1980 TV special Eternal Voyager Emeraldas, wherein the two know each other only by reputation. Any way you slice it-and as you can see, it's already been sliced a good number of ways-there's just no way you're going to get a unified picture from this collection of stories. It's like assembling a single jigsaw puzzle of say, Richard Nixon, from five different puzzle sets; no matter how you piece it together, you're going to get a crook, but one that will look like he was painted by Picasso on a bad day with a live weasel as a brush. It will hurt your brain, and your hand as the weasel attempts impatiently to consume it. Save your sanity and don't try this at home, kiddies.
Let me also point out that the Japanese have no particular standards for romanizing non-Japanese words, so Harlock is occasionally spelled 'Herlock' in various places. This is the same character as Harlock, not a relative, clone, or evil robot double. And yes, real flesh-and-blood humans have actually asked that question. I have used the spelling 'Harlock' throughout on account of the fact that the Japanese use the pronunciation 'Harlock' throughout, as has every English dubbed or subtitled property prior to Endless Odyssey (with the small exception of Roger Corman's Captain Warlock from New World Pictures' dub of Galaxy Express 999, which can be safely ignored.) This could be due to the fact that 'Harlock' is an actual name, and 'Herlock' is not.
What follows is a list of the various Harlock continuities: what fits with what else and what absolutely does not cross over. Please note that as newer Matsumoto anime featuring Harlock is still being produced, this list may not be 100% complete at the time you may be happening to read it, a fact which remains, as always, entirely your own problem.

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Galaxy Express 999
My Youth in Arcadia/Endless Road SSX
Harlock Saga: Der Ring Des Nibelungen
The Endless Odyssey: Outside Legend

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Harlock: Space Pirate (Japanese: 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック, Hepburn: Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku, released as Space Pirate Captain Harlock in Japan) is a 2013 Japanese 3D CG animescience fiction film directed by Shinji Aramaki.^[2][3][4]

In 2010, Toei Animation announced that it had developed a pilot for a computer-graphics remake of the earlier manga-inspired TV series, and presented it at Tokyo International Anime Fair that year. In the next year they presented a preview of Space Pirate Captain Harlock at Annecy International Animated Film Festival. This is Toei's highest production budget ever at the equivalent of over US$30 million. The story was reconstructed by the writer Harutoshi Fukui to reflect the themes of modern society and Toei provided the latest filmmaking technology for the film.^[3] An English-narrated international teaser trailer was released for promotion.^[2] It was shown in the competition of the 70th Venice International Film Festival^[5][6] and was screened at the 33rd Hawaii International Film Festival.^[7] It received a mixed response from critics and was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. It won the Lumière award in Best International 3D Feature – Animated category at the 3D Creative Arts Award (2014).^[8]

Plot[edit]

As resources dwindle, five hundred billion colonists return to Earth, causing the Homecoming War over Earth's remaining resources. The bloody war only ends when an authoritarian government, the Gaia Sanction, declares Earth a sacred planet forbidden to humanity. With the help of four unstoppable ships powered by alien technology, Harlock's fleet prevents Earth from recolonization until a treaty allows diplomatic elite to immigrate. Enraged by this betrayal, Harlock turns on the Gaia Sanction. With his ship, the Arcadia, badly damaged, Harlock unleashes the ship's dark matter. Intending to encase Earth in a protective force field, it instead becomes uninhabitable. The Arcadia survives but is forever changed. Now an immortal pirate, Harlock vows to atone.

Gaia obscures the condition of Earth with a giant hologram to maintain power. Harlock and his crew steal 100 warheads from the Gaia Sanction to 'start over'. Admiral Isora recruits his younger brother, Yama, to kill Harlock. Yama agrees, desperate to atone for a childhood accident that paralyzed Isora and critically injured their mutual love, Nami. Harlock, aware of his plan, allows Yama to infiltrate his crew. During a mission to install the penultimate warhead, Yama learns that Harlock's plan is to disrupt the timestream and alter history by exploding the warheads in strategic places throughout the universe. When the mission goes awry, Yama dooms himself to save a crew mate. Harlock rescues Yama, who briefly considers executing Harlock. On board the Arcadia, Harlock's words and attitude and the crew's acceptance convince Yama to follow Harlock.

The Gaia Sanction permit Isora to use a superweapon to stop Harlock. Harlock evades the Gaia fleet using holograms. Isora destroys the Arcadia with the superweapon, but this is another hologram. The real Arcadia ambushes the fleet, rams Isora's flagship, and Harlock takes the crew hostage. Once at Earth and past the great illusion, the crew is horrified at Earth's fate. Isora reveals Harlock's true plan: Harlock intends to destroy the current universe and rebirth a new one.

Shocked, Yama sides with Isora, and the Arcadia moves away from Earth, apparently of its own volition. Yama helps Isora and his crew take over the Arcadia. With the ship and crew imprisoned, Isora confronts Nami, who informed Yama of his tactical plans. Nami realizes that she is the source of Isora's torment, not Yama. Nami provokes Isora into causing her life support to fail. As Nami dies, she admits to loving him and sacrificing herself to bring him peace.

Isora lies about Nami's death. Disbelieving Isora and haunted by Nami's death, Yama returns to Earth, where he finds a meadow of flowers. Yama interrupts Harlock's public execution and releases the Arcadia's crew. Yama says both he and Harlock were wrong, and he shows them a flower. Overcome by the possibility of a peaceful 'starting over', Harlock abandons his previous plans and decides to expose the Gaia Sanction.

The Arcadia evades the Gaia Fleet and destroys Earth's hologram emitters. The exposed truth of Earth's condition destabilizes the Gaia Sanction, which depended on a quasi-religious veneration of Earth to legitimize their rule. Desperate to contain the situation, the Gaia Sanction's leader decides to use a doomsday particle cannon to destroy the Arcadia. Realizing Earth could be destroyed, too, Isora rams the Arcadia and pushes it away from Earth. Both ships board each other, causing many casualties on both sides.

Yama confronts Isora. Isora shoots at Yama's face, scarring him similarly to Harlock. Harlock mortally wounds Isora, saving Yama. When Isora warns them about the particle cannon, Harlock remarks that Isora was the only one to remain faithful to Earth. Harlock again unleashes the Arcadia's dark matter. With the Arcadia moved further from Earth and protected by a dark matter shield, both Earth and the Arcadia survive the cannon's blast. As Isora dies, he explains that he saved Earth because he knew Nami and their mother loved flowers.

After the Arcadia crash lands on Earth, Harlock sets the final detonator and says another Homecoming War is inevitable. Believing Earth is a gift from Nami and Isora, Yama refuses to destroy it. Liking his answer, Harlock gives the detonator to Yama and says the universe needs the myth of Captain Harlock. As the Gaia Sanction fleet confronts the Arcadia, the crew wakes up, seemingly healed by the dark matter, and the ship escapes, now commanded by Yama.

Cast[edit]

• Shun Oguri as Captain Harlock
• Haruma Miura as Yama Daiba (Logan in English release)
• Yū Aoi as Miime (Mimay in English release)
• Arata Furuta as Yattaran (Yullian in US release)
• Ayano Fukuda as Tori-san
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Isora Daiba (Ezra in English release)
• Maaya Sakamoto as Nami
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Kei
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Roujin
• Chikao Ōtsuka as Soukan

English Voice Cast[edit]

• David Matranga as Captain Harlock
• Adam Gibbs as Logan (Yama Daiba in original release)
• Emily Neves as Mimay (Miime in original release)
• Jessica Boone as Kei
• Rob Mungle as Yullian (Yattaran in original release)
• Mike Yager as Ezra (Isora Daiba in original release)
• Rebekah Stevens as Nami

Production[edit]

Reception[edit]

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The film received mixed reviews from critics.^[9][10][11] Filmmaker James Cameron praised the film for its use of 3D.^[12]

It was recognized as the best international animated feature at the fifth annual 3D Creative Arts Awards held at Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles on January 28, 2014.^[13] It was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 37th Japan Academy Prize.^[14]

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Box office[edit]

By September 29, 2013, it had grossed ¥437,326,416 (US$4,452,519) at the Japanese box office.^[15][16] It went on to gross ¥500 million ($5,131,363) in Japan.^[17]

Space Pirate Captain Harlock is one of the most successful Japanese films ever screened in Italy, making about US$6.8 million by the end of January 2014.^[18] Having earned more in France and Italy than it did in Japan, the film went onto gross $13,557,798 overseas,^[15] bringing its worldwide gross to $18,689,161.

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References[edit]

1. ^'Harlock Space Pirate [2D] (PG)'. British Board of Film Classification. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
2. ^ ^ab'Space Pirate Captain Harlock Remake's English Teaser Posted'. Anime News Network. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
3. ^ ^ab'Captain Harlock Sci-Fi Anime's Remake to Open This Fall'. Anime News Network. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
4. ^Frater, Patrick (10 May 2013). 'Toei's Harlock captured by GFM'. Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 28 October 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
5. ^'Out of Competition'. La biennale. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
6. ^'Venice film festival 2013: the full line-up'. The Guardian. London. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
7. ^'Harlock: space pirate'. Program. HIFF Fall Festival. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
8. ^''Captain Harlock' named best international animated feature at 3D Creative Arts Awards'. Anime news. 17 February 2014. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
9. ^Rooney, David (5 September 2013). 'Harlock: Space Pirate: Venice Review'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
10. ^'Harlock: Space Pirate is a Big, Pretty, Action-filled Disappointment'. Kotaku.com. 7 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
11. ^Leslie Felperin (6 September 2013). ''Space Pirate Captain Harlock' Review: Shinji Aramaki's Epic a Nerd's Delight'. Variety. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
12. ^https://io9.gizmodo.com/james-cameron-loves-the-hell-out-of-the-cg-captain-harl-1307423255
13. ^'Space Pirate Captain Harlock Awarded Best International Animated Feature'. Anime News Network. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
14. ^'Wind Rises, Madoka, Lupin vs. Conan, Harlock, Kaguya Earn Japan Academy Prize Nods'. Anime News Network. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
15. ^ ^ab'Japanese Box Office, September 28–29'. Box Office Mojo. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
16. ^'Japanese Box Office, September 28–29'. Anime News Network. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
17. ^'2013年 日本映画・外国映画業界総決算'. Kinema Junpo（2月下旬決算特別号）. Kinema Junposha (1656): 201. 2014.
18. ^'Captain Harlock CG Film Now Available on Netflix in U.S., U.K.'Anime News Network. 3 August 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2015.

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External links[edit]

• Harlock: Space Pirate on IMDb
• Space Pirate Captain Harlock (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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