Queen Emeraldas
| Queen Emeraldas | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ク ィ ー ン エ メ ラ ル ダ ス |
| genre | Science fiction |
| Manga | |
| title | Queen Emeraldas |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Leiji Matsumoto |
| publishing company | Kodansha |
| magazine | Shōnen Magazine |
| First publication | 1978-1979 |
| expenditure | 4th |
| Original video animation | |
| title | Queen Emeraldas |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 1998 |
| Studio | OLM , MAC |
| length | 31 minutes |
| Episodes | 4th |
| Director | Yuji Asada |
| music | Michiru Oshima |
Queen Emeraldas ( Japanese :ク ィ ー ン エ メ ラ ル ダ ス ) is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto from the 1970s. It wasadaptedas an original video animation in 1998. The work is a continuation of the series The Adventures of the Fantastic Space Pirate Captain Harlock by the same author.
action
The action follows a little boy named Hiroshi Umino who sneaks aboard a freighter to leave Earth. As the freighter flies through space, they are attacked by an Afressi ship with the skull insignia. However, the train is rescued by a mysterious and incredibly powerful spaceship that bears the same insignia and can reach its destination: a desert planet with saloons and bar fights. The boy meets another stowaway, an old man, and becomes friends with him. He tells the old man that he came to the planet to get stronger. He gets a job in a bar with the roughest reputation in the world to prove himself.
When the attacking ship, led by Captain Eldomain, lands on the planet to search for whoever attacked it, Emeraldas demands that he remove the insignia from his ship: “Only two ships have the right to carry it! “She doesn't want the enemy fleet to damage her reputation with her symbol. In the second episode, Emeraldas Hiroshi presents the Cosmo Dragoons, which once belonged to Tochiro, after a final argument with Eldomain and later with Queen Baraluda von Arfess. Later Hiroshi Umino and his older friend visit a planet whose inhabitants have been driven off by a murderous cyborg. This cyborg killed one of the planet's inhabitants and drove his son insane. Umino meets the son and his sister and with their help and Emeraldas he kills the oppressive cyborg.
Publication of the manga
The manga appeared from 1978 to 1979 in Shōnen Magazine at Kodansha . A short story with Emeraldas was published in the Gekkan Princess in 1975 . The chapters in the series were later published in four edited volumes. An English version was published by Kodansha from 2016, an Italian by Hazard.
Anime adaptation
In 1998, the OLM studio produced an adaptation of the manga as a four-part anime under the direction of Yuji Asada . Each of the episodes is 31 minutes long. The author was Baku Kamio and the music was composed by Michiru Oshima. The character design was created by Keisuke Masunaga and Tatsuo Yanagino and the artistic direction was by Tadashi Kudo.
The anime was released in Japan as an original video animation . This was followed by publications in English, Spanish, French and Italian dubbing.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Hiroshi Umino | Megumi Hayashibara |
| Emeraldas | Reiko Tajima |
| Lou Row | Kenichi Ogata |
| Tochiro Oyama | Kōichi Yamadera |
| Captain Harlock | Makio Inoue |
reception
The anime is a "seductive introduction to Matsumoto's values" and the universe he created, according to the Anime Encyclopedia . The classic story is combined with successful, elegant animation, and even if the animation is not always of the highest quality, this does not disturb the story.
Web links
- Manga and Anime on Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 518 f .