Space Pirate Captain Harlock
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Cover of the first tankōbon volume.
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宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック (Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku) |
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| Genre | Space opera |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Play Comic |
| Original run | January 1977 – January 1979 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Rintaro |
| Written by | Haruya Yamazaki (1–30) Shozo Uehara (31–42) |
| Music by | Seiji Yokoyama |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | March 14, 1978 – February 13, 1979 |
| Episodes | 42 |
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Japanese: 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック Hepburn: Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku?, also romanized as Space Pirate Captain Herlock) is a manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto. It was serialized in Play Comic from 1977 to 1979, with the chapters collected into five tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. The series follows the titular Captain, an outcast turned space pirate after he rebelled against Earth's Government and humanity's general apathy.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock was adapted into an anime television series in 1978 directed by Rintaro and produced by Toei Animation. A computer-animated film adaptation of the same name was released in 2013.
In the future, humanity has achieved a vast starfaring civilization, but is slowly and steadily succumbing to ennui or despair, often due to defeat and subjugation by a foreign invader. Rising against the general apathy, Harlock denies defeat and leads an outlaw crew aboard his starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth's oppressors. Their primary oppressors are the Mazone, a race of organic plant-based alien women who explored Earth in the mythic past and are now back to reclaim it.
Harlock is the archetypal romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life. He is as noble as he is taciturn, rebellious, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes, whether they be earthborn or alien. In his own words, he "fight[s] for no one's sake, only for something deep in [his] heart."
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