Episode
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: The Arcadia's Secret History
Overview
We're all as one, together on the Arcadia."The Arcadia is rapidly being repaired on a Pirate Island while Lafresia continues her bloodthirsty hunt for it. While this is happening, Harlock tells Tadashi the secret story behind the Arcadia's origins. As fate would have it, Commander Kiruta captured and enlisted the services of a brilliant scientist named Tochiro to build a battleship to help capture Captain Harlock. However, Harlock saves Tochiro after he is in a pinch on Heavy Meldar, a planet which was being cultivated and they escape on the newly built Arcadia. Though it was a close call, they escape, but Tochiro (is hit with a bullet and) dies right after. Emeralda, wishing to remain with Tochiro, entrusts their daughter, Mayu, to Harlock. She then follows Tochiro out into space in a burial at space sea.
Details
- Series
- Space Pirate Captain Harlock
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 31
- Air date
- 1978-10-31
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Arcadia's Secret History is Episode 31 in Season 1 of Space Pirate Captain Harlock. It aired on 1978-10-31. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 30: My Friend, My Youth
If you can imagine, I drank whiskey that time..."While the Arcadia is being repaired at the dock of a Pirate Island, Tadashi and Tori-san come back with a pair of glasses. Harlock says they belonged to the man who built the Arcadia. Harlock met that man, Tochiro Oyama, in a bar in the Ulysses Nebula. The two of them got along great, but due to the influence of a mysterious woman named Emeralda, the two of them got a bad reputation and were sent off to the mines on Bad. The truth is Emeralda needed the help of the two men to rescue her younger brother Jimmy who was sent there already. After being freed from life in the mine, Tochiro and Emeralda got married and had Mayu.
Episode 32: Call of the Star Flute
Earth is meaningless to me without Mayu."The Mazone plot to use Mayu to lure Harlock and the Arcadia to the Wind Planet and then attack with a powerful mine. As the Arcadia is making up its mind as to where they will go, they intercept a communication saying that the Mazone have sent advance troops to Earth. The crew asks Harlock if they can return to Earth. As Harlock is pondering what to do, the sound of Mayu's ocarina ominously comes to them from the Wind Planet, so they set their course to there. Thanks to the will of Tochiro, which remains on board the Arcadia, they are able to escape the Mazone's trap. Just as it looks like they will succeed in rescuing Mayu, she is whisked away to another planet.
More episodes from this season
Episode 29: Life-and-Death Struggle on the Rainbow Planet
A man learns little by little while in battle."The Mazone come attacking the Arcadia which has had too much free time lately. Tadashi, thinking he may find clues to Mayu's whereabouts, gives chase in a fighter and is wrecked on the Rainbow Planet. A Mazone civilian saves him. Believing their story that they escaped in search of freedom, Tadashi befriends the girl, Kirika. Though he's hated the Mazone up until now, Tadashi gives a grass whistle to Kirika and they quickly grow close. But then he sees that it was all a trap to get close to him. He's saved by Harlock in the brink of time and grows due to this mistake.
Episode 33: The Lone Man's Charge
When a man is searching for his final resting ground, don't go running your mouth."Commander Kiruta learns of the existence of the Mazone and persistently tries to inform the Prime Minister of the impending doom. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister ignores his pleas and begins to think of Kiruta as a dangerous person who may pull off a coup d'?tat. Then, Kiruta encounters Commander Otawara in a drinking establishment once again. He was the former commander who was accused of being a murderer after killing his wife upon finding out she was a Mazone. Learning of the Mazone invasion, Otawara leaves in a fighter all alone and makes contact with the Arcadia. He then leaves his final parting words to his former lover, whom he broke up with due to a misunderstanding, Masu-san. He then charges into the Mazone's crosshairs. Harlock is impressed with Otawara and vows once again to rescue Mayu.
Episode 28: The Ulysses Nebula
The human race started with two."In order to rescue Mayu, Harlock allows the will of the ship to choose its own course. It then sets course for the Human Planet within the seven planets of the Ulysses Nebula. Dr. Ain and thirty humans escaped to there. It's almost like a tropical paradise. Harlock and the crew are there to take respite but when they hear that many UFO's have been spotted overhead recently, they go off to investigate. But, the Mazone have reached there as well and Harlock and the crew are attacked. Miyu, who pretended to be one of them but is really a Mazone, threatens Dr. Ain and make him use his weather control device to create a massive storm. Because of this, the only people who are left in the village are the two young children Vena and Ikaru.
Episode 34: The Galactic Lullaby
It's time for our showdown, Lafresia."The Arcadia is trapped due to an artificial gravity device. However, they escape and protect Mayu from the Mazone base. However, she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after being held captive for so long, and if she stops playing her ocarina, she goes into terrible bouts of terror. Worried that she'll die at this rate, Harlock turns to the main central computer which harbors her father, Tochiro's soul, in order to save her. Finally, after the computer plays her a lullaby, she is able to go to sleep.
Episode 27: The Will of the Arcadia
Queen Lafresia is a Mazone with a heart."Having a hunch as to the reason why Harlock so staunchly opposes them, Queen Lafresia sends someone on a mission to Earth to find out why. They threaten Commander Kiruta and find out about Mayu. Finally believing the warnings about the Mazone that Harlock spoke of, Kiruta pleads to the Prime Minister to defend the Earth. But the Prime Minister does not deem the Mazone a threat. Kiruta finally understands Harlock's impatience with him. Then, after appearing in front of Harlock via hologram, Queen Lafresia is called a coward by Harlock. Then she makes up her mind to kidnap Mayu. She is taken away from Kiruta, who was protecting her, by a Mazone.
Episode 35: The Beautiful Mystery Woman
Mayu, come here. The Earth is beautiful."After rescuing Mayu, all that remains is the final showdown with Lafresia. Harlock decides that she cannot remain on the ship during the battle and to return her to Earth. At the same time, Commander Kiruta, after pleading dozens of times regarding the impending Mazone invasion to the Prime Minister, is accused of treason due to a plot by his secretary, Shizuka Namino. Kiruta is slated to be executed the following morning and there is nothing more he can do. However, Shizuka saves him from this fate. In order to save Shizuka from the hands of the police, Kiruta turns to his one-time rival Harlock for assistance. He swallows his pride to Harlock as he promises to take her someplace safe. It turns out that this was what Shizuka wanted all along.
Episode 26: The Long Journey From Afar
You have awakened the lion that sleeps within me."Due to Harlock's unrelenting resistance, there is a growing resentment between the Mazone military and its civilians. There is a faction in the military saying the civilians are just a nuisance and should be cut off. But the queen has resigned herself to complete the exodus of all her peoples to Earth. When Tesius breaks away from the caravan with a group of Mazone, the queen sends her subordinate Cleo to deliver her punishment. She lets Tesius commit suicide rather than kill her...
Episode 36: The Eve of the Showdown
Even within all this silence, a flame is toiling."The beautiful, dazzling Shizuka Namino becomes a bit of a celebrity on board the Arcadia after being rescued. However, she's really a spy sent by Queen Lafresia. Upon the Queen's orders, she takes photos of the ship with a camera in her earring and seeks to discover Harlock's true intentions. However, Harlock doesn't fall to her sexual advances and provokes Lafresia, almost as if he knows Shizuka's true identity. Lafresia, hearing his words over her earring transmitter, becomes infuriated. She suddenly sends her main fleet out. At the same time, Shizuka realizes that the forty-second person on board the Arcadia is Tochiro Oyama.
Episode 25: Doctor Zero and Mi
This is a gamble. But it's a gamble we will win."Doctor Zero becomes extremely resentful over Zorba and Lucia's murder. So, he sets off to do battle in the midst of a magnetic storm and leaves his pet cat to the ship's cook, Masu-san. He leaves alone in a fighter. Then, with the cat who snuck into the cockpit when he wasn't looking, he prepares for death in a violent dogfight. Shortly after, Tadashi informs Harlock that the Mazone mothership he shot down was actually a passenger ship. The Mazone are not just plotting an invasion but are on a mass exodus in search of a new home!
Episode 37: Tears on a Red Sweater
It's cold in space."Upon realizing that Harlock knew who Shizuka's real identity is, she deems that she has failed in her mission. Harlock was going to banish her from his ship but he sees Shizuka help someone out and reconsiders. He decides to let her stay on the Arcadia but she then tries to blow up the main computer! Harlock scrambles to get the bomb out of the way and almost dies! The truth is that Shizuka was in love with Harlock, and as she couldn't live her life as a failure, she wanted to die by Harlock's doing.