Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey

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Original video animation
title Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2002-2003
Studio Madhouse
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
genre Science fiction , action
Director Rintaro
music Takayuki Hattori
synchronization

Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey , also Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey , is a Japanese original video animation produced in 2002 with 13 episodes of 25 minutes each, which is a continuation of the late 1970s after the manga - Series The Adventures of the Fantastic Space Pirate Captain Harlock was designed by Leiji Matsumoto . The director Rintaro was responsible , the script was written by Sadayuki Murai . In the title of the series, the original spelling of the captain's name, Harlock , is changed to Herlock .

action

Years after the disappearance of Captain Herlock, his right-hand man Yuki Kei and the remaining space pirates are seized by the central government and taken prisoner; but Captain Herlock is about to intervene again in what is happening in space. An unknown intellectual power has taken over the corpses of several scientists, who now make the universe unsafe as a kind of overpowering ghouls or zombies. When the dead scientists confront a living colleague, Professor Daiba, he is killed; they also want to kill his son Tadashi, who is arriving, but Captain Herlock can save him. Herlock promises Tadashi to help him in his revenge on his father's murderer; he asks him to come aboard his ship, the Arcadia, to become a "real man".

Herlock frees his former crew and sets out to solve the mystery of the evil scientist ghouls; it turns out to be individualized splinters of the Noo, an evil primordial being that was banned from a power called an "Infinite Chain" shortly after the Big Bang. It is Noo's will to return from his exile into the dimension of life and to enslave all living beings through fear and to reincarnate the earth, a part of his original body. To do this, Noo moves the planet into the sixth dimension, where it disappears from people's scanners. Noo reaches for the souls of the living and unleashes a cruel, fear-driven interstellar war. Captain Herlock proves himself immune to fear, the real power of the Noo, and thanks to the trust of his comrades-in-arms and in spite of the deceit of his opponent, he can advance into the sixth dimension, from where he succeeds in removing Noo from the dimension of the living to banish and let the earth appear again in its ancestral place.

In the end, he reveals to Tadashi that he had promised his father that he would kill him should he betray the world of the living; Professor Dashi had almost done so, since as a scientist he could not resist the temptation to solve the riddle of Noo's exile. As the murderer of Tadashi's father, he now demands his revenge.

Production and publication

The 13-part series was created in 2002 at Studio Madhouse under the direction of Rintaro , the script was written by Sadayuki Murai . The music was composed by Takayuki Hattori , the character design was created by Nobuteru Yuki and the artistic direction was by Hisashi Ikeda . The mechanical design comes from Katsuya Yamada and Masami Ozone . The responsible producers were Manabu Tamura and Satoki Toyada . The production was originally intended to be broadcast on television. However, there was an interruption when Leiji Matsumoto noticed shortly before completion that a Star of David had been used as a symbol for the root of evil. Since he didn't want any anti-Semitic symbolism in the series, it was revised and so missed the broadcast date.

Instead, it was released on DVD in 2002 and 2003. The anime was later shown on television by Nippon Television Network . Universum Film released a German dubbing on DVD. Italian, French and English translations have also appeared.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Captain Herlock Kōichi Yamadera Tobias Brecklinghaus
Yattaran Naoki Tatsuta Hans-Georg Panczak
Tadashi Daiba Tomokazu Seki Hubertus von Lerchenfeld
Mimeh Yuko Minaguchi Melanie Jung
Nana Fumiko Orikasa Natalie Loewenberg
Yuki Kei Rei Sakuma Stephanie waiter
Shizuka Emi Shinohara Tatiana Pokorny
Doctor Zero Nachi Nozawa Tobias Lelle

reception

Due to the exciting plot and the interesting visual details, the series is a worthy continuation of the Captain Harlock story, according to the criticism on Anime News Network . However, THEM Anime criticizes Captain Harlock's extreme inviolability. The series clearly shows Rintaro's handwriting, according to the German magazine Animania : instead of Leiji Matsumoto's usual “compact story with a melancholy message”, a 13-part story with a focus on a mysterious atmosphere is conveyed. The production was technically successful, albeit partly daring, and backed by a down-to-earth, "bluesy soundtrack". The character design shows both its own style and a connection to the earlier works of the Leiji Matsumoto universe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Space Pirate Captain Herlock The Endless. Anime News Network, February 27, 2004, accessed October 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 1-933330-10-4 , p. 88.
  3. ↑ a b Animania 04/2003, p. 32.
  4. ↑ TOPIC Anime Reviews 4.0 - Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey. In: www.themanime.org. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .

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