Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX
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わが青春のアルカディア 無限軌道SSX (Waga Seishun no Arcadia - Mugen Kido SSX) |
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| Genre | Space opera |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tomoharu Katsumata |
| Written by | Hiroyasu Yamaura Hiroyuki Hoshiyama |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
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| Original network | Tokyo Broadcasting System |
| Original run | October 13, 1982 – March 30, 1983 |
| Episodes | 22 |
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Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX (わが青春のアルカディア·無限軌道SSX Waga Seishun no Arukadia - Mugen Kidō Esu Esu Ekkusu?) is an animated television series created by Leiji Matsumoto. It's the sequel to the 1982 animated film Arcadia of My Youth. However, like many of the stories set in the Leijiverse, the continuity of the series does not necessarily agree with other Harlock series or films.
The series premiered just as the Gundam craze began in Japan. Mobile Suit Gundam ushered in a new era of more realistic Sci-Fi anime that made the fantasy and melodrama of Captain Harlock seem outdated. Therefore, the series suffered low viewer ratings and was ended after 22 episodes - half of what was originally planned.
At the end of Arcadia of My Youth, Captain Harlock and the crew of the space ship Arcadia had been banished from Earth. Earth, as well as many other planets in the universe had been taken over by the Illumidas, a race of destructive humanoids who ruin, enslave or destroy almost any inhabitable planet they come across. In "Endless Orbit SSX" Harlock battles the Illumidas while searching for a mythical "Planet of Peace" where all the peoples of the universe can live freely and without war.
It was not the intention that Endless Orbit SSX act as a prequel to Galaxy Express 999 and the 1978 Space Pirate Captain Harlock as both Galaxy Express and SSX contradict each other as well as the back story given in the 1978 Space Pirate series. The 1989-1993 American comic book adaptations by Eternity Comics did, however attempt to establish a continuity. The comic book series was not an actual adaptation of SSX but liberally borrowed elements from the series while introducing new ones in an attempt to establish a continuity with Galaxy Express and Space Pirate series.
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