![]() ![]() Shinji Aramaki is a director who emerged first as a mechanical designer on various anime tv series of the 1980s and 90s. Though continuity changes considerably between versions of the story, Harlock is always a brooding interstellar pirate aboard the ship The Arcadia who wages a war against various authoritarian regimes. Aside from that, Harlock crosses over into other Matsumoto creations and makes appearances in Galaxy Express 999 (1979) and the OVA Queen Emeraldas (1998-9). There was also Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey (2002-3), a thirteen-episode OVA from Rintaro. Gun Frontier (2002) was another anime series, which incarnated Harlock in a Western setting. Matsumoto revisited Harlock with a new manga series Harlock Saga: Ring of the Niebelung (1998-9). Harlock was revived in the animated feature film Arcadia of My Youth (1982), which was expanded out into a 22-episode anime series Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit (1982-3). That was badly dubbed into English where it appeared under the title Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985) and was edited together with another unrelated Matsumoto-adapted series Queen Millennia (1981-2) to reportedly incoherent results. This was then adapted into the animated tv series Space Pirate Captain Harlock (1978-9), which ran for 42 episodes. The creation of famous manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, Captain Harlock first appeared in a manga in Play magazine that ran from 1977-9. Captain Harlock is one of the most famous characters in Japanese anime and manga.
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