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Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985)

Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years poster
Genre
science fiction television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 65 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Captain Harlock goes on space adventures with a crew. The show combines footage from two Japanese anime series into a new English language story.

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What happens

Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years is an animated science fiction television series produced by Harmony Gold USA. The series was created by Carl Macek by combining footage from Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock and Queen Millennia anime series. This is the second time the 1978 Captain Harlock series was treated for English language distribution. The first attempt was in 1981 with the lesser known ZIV International, who only released two volumes of two episodes each, the first (episodes 1 and 9) a relatively faithful adaptation, the second (episodes 2 and 3) retooling the approach to a more farcical one. This attempt is often confused with the Harmony Gold production, but the two productions are not related. The plot of Macek's creation is extremely different to the plots of Matsumoto's original works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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