Captain Harlock Complete TV Series

Great Show and Great Boxset
For the first time ever in North America, Captain Harlock has received an official release, featuring all 42 uncut episodes in one boxset. Like all animated series in Japan, Captain Harlock originally started as a manga series in 1977 by Leiji Matsumoto, the creator of Galaxy Express 999 and later became an anime series in 1978. The anime series provided to be successful not only in Japan but around the world. In France and Quebec, the show is known as "Albator" and in Latin America, the show is known as "Capitán Raymar".I find the show to be very enjoyable, with tone being much more darker than Galaxy Express 999 and the art style very interesting to look at, though, like all of Matsumoto's works, they all look alike. My favorite character in show is obviously Captain Harlock. To me, Captain Harlock is the embodiment of hope yet he's very mysterious. Throughout the majority of the show, we, the audience, don't know much about his past other than he was wrongly accused of...

I Don't Think I've Ever Enjoyed a Show This Much...
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I am not an anime person. Of the very small handful of animes I have watched to completion only three warranted purchase/re-watches: Wolf's Rain Anime Legends Perfect Collection, 'Ginga Densetsu Weed' and Last Exile: The Complete Series. After those I pretty much stopped watching anime (I've had no luck with manga) and never considered myself a fan of the genre, although I enjoyed most of the Studio Gibli films, my favorite being Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

But now I must truly say that this 'old-school' 1970's anime is now my favorite show ever, not just my favorite anime show, my favorite show period. I stumbled across the first episode while looking for movies on Cracked.com and with no pre-expectations and knowledge...

Fantastic release of a fantastic series
Space Pirate Captain Harlock TV is one of those series that I used to think "never, ever, in a million years will we see a proper English language (subbed) release on DVD." We are apparently living in the hey day of classic Anime. Fist of the North Star? Check. Cutie Honey TV? Check (it's coming). Mazinger Z? Check (it's coming). Dragonball Dragon Boxes? Check. Galaxy Express movies (all THREE!?). Check. Devilman TV? Check.

All of these series are ones I never, ever expected to see on DVD. I own all but the Dragon boxes and Devilman on official R2 DVD.

Anyway. Space Pirate Captain Harlock (SPCH) is a "rogue saves the universe" story. Mankind has become lazy, allowing robots to do all of their work for them. There is an alien invasion that only Harlock and his merry band of misfits can defend against.

The story has been done a million times, but this is Matsumoto Leiji's work (is based off the original Manga to an extent). The artwork will remind many...

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