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That weaving is where the show tends to fall apart. And the story can get very complex as they try to weave the two worlds of Harlock and Queen Millennia together. Like Robotech, the show doesn't pull its punches- a lot of violent death scenes are left in, main characters are killed, there's live childbirth scenes (not once, but twice). It's still got some good storytelling to it, especially when compared with what else was airing in 1986. So, as to the show itself: Is it any good?įor me, the answer is a resounding yes. So when I started copying all my VHS tapes to DVD and I reached the Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years tapes, I decided I was going to actually sit down and watch them as I copied them. Then I had to leave the store and I was so sour on anime I didn't want to have anything to do with it.īut that was years ago now, and shows like the aforementioned Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, Macross Frontier and Cosmo Warrior Zero have helped me lose my resentment towards anime. I wanted to get back into watching them, but by that point I was too busy working with anime to actually watch any of it. His last tape repeats the first two episodes, and the voice over on the end credits talks about their new line-up starting on Monday. (Well, except for those two missing episodes that is, but I suspect that the Chicago station skipped them so it wasn't his fault. I had a fansub trade list I carried around with me, and I was lucky enough to run into a fan who said he had all 65 episodes! We quickly arranged the trades, and good to his word, he provided me with the rest of the series. Joy and I were in Chicago running our booth for Joy's Japanimation at AnimeCentral. I wasn't able to actually get any more episodes until over ten years later.
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I ate them up and eagerly wanted to see more. I think people really don't appreciate how lucky we are that Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles actually got released.) But a friend of mine got a hold of the first 8 episodes from someone in Texas.
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(Just like the other HG products I was waiting on at the time: Robotech: The Movie and Robotech II: The Sentinels. Well, the show's "wider push" never came. Macek said he hated the project, and just dreaded going in to work every day to deal with it. Being between a rock and a hard place, Harmony Gold went with Queen Millenia, an unrelated show that used the same character designer, Leiji Matsumoto.
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Macek said at the con that he wanted to use the follow-up series Harlock SSX and the My Youth in Arcadia Harlock movie, but the rights owners were demanding too much money for it. To fill it out, they needed another show like they did with Robotech. The only problem is, that show only ran 42 episodes. HG was now stuck with honoring these sales, so they were forced to aquire the rights to the Japanese show Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
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Macek shrugged and said, "I like Captain Harlock." So this employee then got on the phone and proceeded to sell 65 episodes of Captain Harlock to TV stations around the country. The show was in limited release but was expected to have a wider push in 1987.Īt the 1986 Creation Robotech Convention I got to see Carl Macek, and he explained the show's backstory something like this: After the success of Robotech, a Harmony Gold employee "who as a result of this is no longer with the company" asked him what other anime was cool.
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I saw in an issue of Starlog that Harmony Gold had released another anime series, Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years.
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But hey, this is as close as I'm ever gonna get, so I feel happy.Ĭaptain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years was a project by Carl Macek and Harmony Gold, the folks who brought me Robotech, the show that changed my life. it turns out I'm missing episodes 50 & 51.
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Well okay, I've actually only watched 63 episodes. I've finally watched all 65 episodes of Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years ! I DID IT!! I've finally completed something I've always wanted to do since 1986.