Queen Millennia

Queen Millennia
Cover of first manga volume, with spines from remaining four volumes (Sankei editions).
新竹取物語 1000年女王 (Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō)
Genre	Adventure, science fiction
Manga
Written by	Leiji Matsumoto
Published by	Sankei Shimbun Nishinippon Shimbun
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Sankei Shimbun Nishinippon Sports
Original run	28 January 1980 – 11 May 1983
Volumes	5
Light novel
Written by	Kaeko Iguchi Leiji Matsumoto
Illustrated by	Leiji Matsumoto
Published by	Sankei Shuppan
Imprint	Junior Shōsetsu
Original run	December 1980 – August 1981
Volumes	2 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written by	Keisuke Fujikawa
Illustrated by	Leiji Matsumoto
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Cobalt
Original run	January 1981 – March 1982
Volumes	3 + 1 film novel (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written by	Ken Wakasaki
Illustrated by	Leiji Matsumoto
Published by	Bunka Publishing Bureau
Imprint	Cobalt
Original run	June 1981 – March 1982
Volumes	3 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Nobutaka Nishizawa
Written by	Keisuke Fujikawa Shigemitsu Taguchi Hiroyasu Yamaura Toyohiro Andō
Music by	Ryudo Uzaki Tomoyuki Asakawa
Studio	Toei Dōga
Original network	Fuji TV
English network	US Syndication
Original run	16 April 1981 – 25 March 1982
Episodes	42
Anime film
Directed by	Masayuki Akehi
Produced by	Kenji Yokoyama
Written by	Keisuke Fujikawa
Music by	Kitarō
Studio	Toei Dōga
Released	13 March 1982
Runtime	121 minutes

Queen Millennia (Japanese: 新竹取物語 1000年女王, Hepburn: Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō^?, lit. "The New Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Millennium Queen") is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime TV series by Toei Dōga and broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through 25 March 1982. An anime film was released on 13 March 1982 shortly before the TV series ended.

The anime series was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with episodes from the 1978 Matsumoto series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and shown from 1985 to 1986 in the United States as the 65-episode Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. The series was broadcast in Germany on Tele 5 during 1992 and on Mangas in France in 2004.

The series takes place in the (then) futuristic year 1999. Professor Amamori discovers a 10th planet in the Earth's solar system, which he names La-Metal, while at his observatory in Tokyo. Its diameter is 9 times that of Earth. Amamori notes the planet has a highly eccentric orbit and, as it emerges behind the distant Pluto, Amamori realizes that La-Metal is on a collision course with Earth. He calculates that the planet will impact Earth on 9 September 1999, at 9 o'clock, 9 minutes and 9 seconds.