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A tokyu agency 20th anniversary production

a tokyu agency, ltd. - Toei company, ltd. Presentation in association with toei doga, ltd. Released through toei company, ltd. Assistance provided by tokyu recreation, ltd.

At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was arcadia...

My name is phantom f. Harlock.

At that time...

I was flying from Port Moresby amidst rolling thunder, traversing into new Guinea.

Heading for rabaul on new britain island.

As an aerial explorer, conquering the sky throughout the world...

Was the dream upon which I staked my life.

It was the Owen Stanley mountains that stood in my way.

Its highest peak, 5030 meters...

The mountain that has come to be feared by men as the Stanley witch.

My name is phantom f. Harlock.

And this plane is flesh of my flesh, sharing my blood...

The friend that shares my fate. "Arcadia of my youth."

When this plane, with whom I shared my youth...

With whom I rode the skies, has ceased to fly...

My life will also end.

The fuselage was heavy that day, with a full load of fuel.

Unable to gain altitude, arcadia's engine gasped terribly.

The sound of the cylinders, seemingly out of breath...

Resembled the irregular beat of my aged heart.

Arcadia and I flew as best we could...

Seeking a ravine we could slip through.

But the Owen Stanley mountains looked down on arcadia and I coldly...

Without stirring in the slightest.

Flying through the sky, arcadia and I were beaten in battle but once in our lives.

I had given up, swallowing my regret, when I chanced to look back.

The mountain... The mountain was laughing.

Believing that with arcadia...

I was in a world where there was no such word as defeat,

I kept flying.

I kept ten minutes' worth of gasoline,

and jettisoned the rest into the air.

The fuselage thus lightened, I staked everything on those ten minutes.

My name is phantom f. Harlock.

My plane, with whom I shared joys and sorrows, is "arcadia of my youth.”

I kept flying, believing in myself.

I have no regrets about my life.

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.

Arcadia of my youth

Executive production head chiaki imada

planning, original stories & organization leiji matsumoto

planning

planning assistance michiaki oka tadashi matsushima

screenplay yooichi onaka

No. 3 space shock Cannon breakdown.

Damage near starboard engine room.

Ship's thrust: 80%.

Enemy ship approaching. Prepare for class three combat.

Animation director kazuo komatsubara

art director iwamitsu itoo assistant art director kazuo ebisawa

music

director of photography masaki machida recording

Special appearance by yuujiro ishihara

directed by tomoharu katsumata

the dream has ended. Earth is now the only place for earthmen to live.

This is our defeat. Is it all over...?

This is the lllumidus occupation force.

Follow this station's instructions, and land at base no. 446.

If you resist, we will destroy your ship at once!

Touchdown in 6 minutes, 55 seconds.

Maintain present course. Hoist a surrender flag. Resistance will not be tolerated.

This is frequency 6050... using variable micro-current cycles...

The sun which set yesterday will rise again this morning...

And we believe that sun will rise again tomorrow...

That voice...

We believe in our future.

Hear me, those who try to live... Who can live, on earth...

Maya...!

Though the ground was burnt...

Everything turned into ashes... We will revive again.

The sky is blue, the crashing waves unchanged from long ago...

This is our planet... earth...

T-this is a terran underground broadcast!

The dream is in the hearts of people...

So long as people do not abandon it... yes, it is. From somewhere on occupied earth,

for the sake of tomorrow, keep a song in your heart...

Let us stop our crying, and stand firmly on the ground...

For the sake of our future.

Though the night continues on, the sun will not die.

At the end of the darkness, it keeps on burning.

Lift up your faces, friends. And look up at the dawn.

Friends who still do not see, tomorrow will surely come.

Within the frozen ground, in secret, the flower's life continues on.

Friends, do not lose the seed of hope.

Friends whose names I do not even know, tomorrow will surely come.

Rotten bastard! It's that kind of skill that got us beaten!

To hell with the sol system federation!

I'm sick of hearing about "our invincible fleet!"

Oh... ow! Ow! Ouch! Oh, how terrible!

Captain... harlock, isn't it?

Disarmament is being carried out here. Hand over your gun.

That was a violent landing you made.

Unavoidable, given the condition of the runway.

But in addition, you were intent on rendering your ship inoperable.

That's right.

Present yourself at g.H.Q. And make your report.

With that, your duties will have been completely discharged.

Have we met somewhere before?

At the battle of castlemagne star cluster sector...

Your ship blew a big hole in mine.

I see. Victory must feel good.

It was a long fight, after all. Many times, I too thought I was dead...

You people were tough. Especially your ship.

Thank you.

By the way, what's your name?

Zoll, from tokarga.

Tokarga? You're a tokargan?

The people who fought lllumidus way back and lost?

That's right.

You're to present yourself at 10 o'clock.

Hold it!

Didn't you hear me? I thought I told you to present yourself at g.H.Q.!

10 o'clock is still two hours away. There's someplace I have to go.

To your family?

My parents are gone.

You're to present yourself at 10 o'clock.

I'll come back. Can't you trust my word?

There isn't much law and order. Watch yourself.

If you die and don't come back, it'll be my fault.

This is the voice of free arcadia. The sun sets, and rises again.

The future does not come to those who don't believe in it.

All who believe have long endured, and will someday meet up with you.

Someday, we will combine our strength, and live in the future with you.

Don't let the fire go out, no matter how small a flame it may be.

Believe in our tomorrow.

This way!

He received the badge of combat heroism, so he could be quite useful to us.

Yes, sir.

It would seem you took this earthman for a better man than he was, zoll.

I have come.

What do you want of me?

This is his excellency zeda, supreme commander of the lllumidus earth occupation forces.

I'm harlock.

Captain of the deathshadow. I have nothing else to say.

Don't wise off, you whipped cur!

Let him go, harlock.

If you had time to read books, you should have been devising a means of victory.

You can't defeat us with books.

Since we occupied earth, we've collected data on a great number of earthmen.

According to computer analysis, earthmen adapt quickly to new circumstances.

In other words, up until yesterday, they hated us as the enemy,

and today they follow us, wagging their tails!

Earthmen are not such cowards as that!

Prime minister triter, of the lllumidus occupation corps collaboration cabinet.

Ah, good evening.

Prime minister triter, it would seem you have once again arrested a Rose.

Well, next time for sure, I'll arrest her and execute her at once.

My instructions are that you identify the source of the voice of free arcadia.

Once we know even that, we can put it to good use.

Why, this man is...

The man who captained the refugee evacuation ship.

Ha... harlock! This man is dangerous!

Well, if you'll excuse me, I will start a search at once.

What an unprincipled man!

Anyway, harlock...

The supreme commander knows your reputation, and would be willing to give you work.

Not a chance.

I see. You're stubborn.

Very well!

When you receive your food coupon, disappear!

There's nothing more for you to do! You'll never fly again! Got that?

La mime, give him the coupon.

One moment please.

Your food coupon. Don't lose your temper. Eat while you can.

Right now, earth's provisions are nearly exhausted.

If you don't eat, you'll starve to death.

Ee ee ee £55 == ee eee ee eames meee ee a eee

leave him alone.

In some star sector, he might have managed to scratch our ships.

A scratch, huh? You may be right!

It's hard on you too, huh. I know how you feel inside.

Yeah... all we can do right now is shut up and eat.

After all, we've been beaten, but that does not mean we've been destroyed.

Bottle: "Handsome brand sake"

don't die.

And here I was feeling sympathy for you.

You filthy yellow rat! Eat that and go back to the sewers to sleep!

Take it, if you can!

What's wrong? Can't you take it?

What's wrong?

Bastard!

Go!

Son of a bitch!

Kill him!

Come back here!

Scum!

It's all gone to hell! Everybody die!

Die, damn youl!

Huh? What do you think you're doing, pervert?!

Hahaha!

That was fun! My name's tochiro. I'm getting out of here now!

Me, too!

Oh, what a waste!

Why do you act like a beggar?

It's what you call a one-man revolt.

Revolt?

Yeah, that's right!

How can this be a revolt, when you don't have weapons... or anything?

If there were weapons to be had, would you rebel too?

Weapons? There aren't any, anywhere.

In any world there are loopholes, you know.

Guns!

Pretty old, but...

But how?

Beats having nothing!

Someone's coming!

The device we have placed you in is for simultaneous two-person analysis

of the memory regions of the genes in your cells.

It can analyze roughly 3000 years' worth of memory in a minute.

So what?

Is this some kinda torture?

Listen to me. You two have some genes in common.

Notice how the lines intermingle from time to time?

Those portions that throw off sparks are the ones.

What is this leading up to?

Your memories...

In fact, your genes, going back to your distant ancestors,

both have parts that are absolutely identical.

You and...?

Me?!

I've been acquiring data from long ago concerning your genes.

Strange data, at that.

You both have some identical memories based on a common experience.

I'm going to play back those memories.

Follow me! We'll land on the autobahn for refueling.

Damn! It's wrecked!

What're you doing? Hey! Get out of there before it explodes!

I've at least got to get this loose and take it with me.

A revi c/12d...!

This is my eye.

Whether in the battle of britain or in the African campaign, it's always been my eye.

Huh?! What're you doing?

Got it!

It's a shame that your plane ended up like that.

Yeah. To think that I, of all people, would make such a blunder...

The metal in the landing gear was bad, and it broke. It's not your fault.

Are you Japanese?

Yeah. I'm here with the technical exchange.

I'm an optical machinery designer. Name's ooyama toshiro.

I'm phantom f. Harlock il.

Harlock? Then you're the harlock who wrote this book? Huh?

That book was written by my father.

I see. "Arcadia of my youth." Only men can appreciate these feelings.

Something like that.

But why're you flying around in an iron cross plane?

It's what you might call "paying rent." By the way, tochiro...

Are your family samurai?

My old man's a farmer.

That's the world's first manned rocket.

Looks like it ran out of fuel, too.

It's ragnarok, all right.

But my battle still isn't over.

We put the last of the fuel into a new plane.

There aren't any more planes in reserve.

H-hey!

Oh, what a waste!

It's because this country does things like this that it won't endure.

Did you need that for something?

Yeah. My work is the development of a new sight.

I had one that I was carrying with great care, but thanks to your outrageous landing I wrecked it.

Sorry about that.

How could they even start such a damned war?

We both feel that it's pointless, huh?

Uh-huh. If I were going to do something,

I'd rather it be work with a brighter future.

Like going to the moon, maybe.

I believe that someday, the time will come when we fly there, too.

Tochiro! What's wrong? Get going!

There's no place for me to go, anymore.

Go to diesbaden! From there, you can escape to Switzerland.

A powerful allied tank corps is coming from the other side of diesbaden.

There's nowhere I can go now.

I at least wanted to go to Switzerland and continue my research, but...

It's cramped, but bear with it.

Sure. My house was cramped, too.

There's no bulletproof plating in there.

If you get shot, don't hold it against me.

Oh, I won't.

Watch out! They're above us!

Tochiro! You all right?

Yeah. Thanks to that, I can see outside very nicely now.

He's coming in from the side! The side! Starboard!

Ok! I've got him!

My eye...

There isn't a single plane that's escaped once it's trapped within my revi c/12d.

Hm? That's strange. Tochiro! Is the elevator wire coming loose?

It's fine!

I see... it's got a strange feeling to it. One I've never experienced before.

Ok! All fighters, regroup!

I'm the only one left...

Revi c/12d... my eye. Say something... it's just us now.

I see. You don't want to say anything.

Switzerland...

Ten minutes more.

Tochiro, you want to go back to Japan?

Naturally! What about you, harlock?

Yes...

The place I need to return to is arcadia.

My home, whose forests and lakes are likened to that ancient Greek paradise.

Heiligenstadt.

The place where my youth will forever run through green fields.

The homeland of the germanic pirate-knight harlock clan.

At the end of the journey, all my kinsmen think of their homeland.

We hear the voice of arcadia's pirate-knight spirit calling...

Tochiro! Switzerland is close at hand!

Only 500 meters!

Tochiro! Neutral Switzerland is on the other side of the river!

Get out and run!

What's wrong, tochiro? Don't just sit there!

What're you doing?

Tochiro... you...

You held the severed wire together with your body...

That's why the response got so soft!

I'm sorry, tochiro. I didn't realize!

It's not like I'm dead. My hand's torn up, that's all.

Hey! There it is! Head over there!

S-someone's coming!

French resistance who've entered German territory.

Don't worry. I'll get you away from them, no matter what!

Tochiro, take this and go home!

That's...!

My revi c/12d. I'm giving it to you.

B-but, that's your...

To a true man, in whom I can believe...

To a true friend, I'd give even my eyes. Even my heart.

Harlock...

Here!

So long!

W-what are you going to do?

I can't run into a sanctuary.

The pirate's way of life is to take responsibility for his actions.

Tochiro, don't abandon your dreams. Live, no matter what!

Harlock!

I'm glad to have met you at the end of this stupid war.

I wish we'd met in different times!

Axis bastard! Go to hell! Die, damn youl!

Harlock!

Don't die!

Don't die!

Harlock! So long as the blood of my descendants continues to flow,

our friendship will not be forgotten!

It won't be forgotten!

More than 1000 years ago, your ancestor and mine...

Why the hell did zoll give us back these books, though?

Harlock! Congratulations!

I was worried that you were suspected of revolting,

but it seems my fears were groundless.

According to zoll's report, your data analysis was perfectly clean,

and there are no problems.

Leave us a moment. I have something important to discuss with harlock.

Harlock, we must once again have you pledge loyalty to earth.

I've always fought with conviction.

But only when I believed the earth was worth fighting for.

Very well. Now then...

We have decided to dispatch a volunteer corps to tokarga.

To tokarga?!

We want to give you the duty of transporting the troops.

A volunteer corps for what purpose?

For what purpose must earthmen go to tokarga?

You pledged total loyalty to earth, right?

That's fine. So did I.

Now you must kill either your mother or a stray dog.

You're saying earth is the mother, and tokarga the stray dog?

Yes. Tokarga has served its purpose, as far as lllumidus is concerned.

Annihilate tokarga?! Liquidate it?!

Just who decides whether that planet is useless?

To whom is it useless?

All that lives has worth.

And yet, you tell earthmen to take on the duty of destroying tokarga?!

Earthmen, by their own hands?! You truly are scum!

Shut up!

If we cooperate with lllumidus and send a volunteer corps to tokarga,

earth's safety will be assured forever!

You called me scum,

but would I not be scum if I let earth be destroyed to save another planet?

I am emeraldas, a free space trader. I'm a legitimately licensed trader.

A free space trader, neither enemy of nor ally to anyone. Who are you?

Tochiro... ooyama toshiro, to be precise.

What do you want?

I'm looking for a friend.

But you know, these are unusual burns.

I failed to cross the prominence of the streams of fire.

It's the place that's called the Stanley witch of space.

A terrifying place where, in addition to tremendous thermal energy...

Supergravity, which attracts living energy to itself, is also at work.

Zoll...

What is it, la mime? It's dangerous to come here!

I know. But...

But what?

I overheard a top-secret coded order to the supreme commander.

Tokarga...

What about tokarga?

Tokarga...

However great the suffering...

Think of it as a harbinger, for making tomorrow's meeting even more beautiful.

And please do not lose to despair"s seduction.

Do not forget the freshness of the dawn, or the wind.

Please remember that day when we ran hand-in-hand...

Through that green field, overflowing with love...

Harlock!

Maya! Watch out! Take cover!

Maya!

Harlock!

Maya!

Harlock!

Maya!

H-harlock!

No! Don't come any closer!

I'm glad you came even this far! Now run! Quickly!

Are you telling me to run away... And abandon you?

No! You must stay away!

Dying will accomplish nothing!

If we live, we can meet again someday.

The day will surely come when we see the sun and smile.

H-harlock!

Stay back!

Stay away, harlock...

Stay away...!

Fire!

Maya!

Harlock! Long time no see.

Has a man called tochiro been here?

Oh, you finally showed up, huh?

Where've you been hiding all this time?

I was repairing your ship.

I'm missing one part, so it's not completely fixed.

But there'll be no trouble in ordinary flight.

You say you fixed that ship?

You don't believe me?

It's not that... so it can fly?

Sure it can.

Hey! What're you doing over there?

- Harlock! - Harlock!

Oh! Harlock! Hang on...!

This is the voice of free arcadia.

If you burn yourself out, only ashes will remain.

A fire of living hope will never go out.

Someday it will spread from person to person like wildfire,

and they may create a new future with their hands.

In order to protect that fire,

no one will laugh, even if tomorrow you journey far away.

People will believe that you will surely return.

Did she get caught?

I can envision her...

The kind of person who, within the depths of a gentle body,

which seems like it might shatter if touched, holds fiery magma.

That broadcast just now was a personal message to someone.

She sent it, aware of the danger.

Emeraldas...

Let... let me steal your ship.

What're you saying?!

I'm going to escape from earth.

No, you're not!

How rotten are you, you bastard?!

Do you like being a lowly lllumidus dog that much?

Stop it, harlock!

Zoll didn't come here to arrest you.

Zoll has come to steal the emeraldas.

They're all trying to return to tokarga.

La mime, stop it. It's not something to tell them about.

My planet was wiped out by lllumidus and returned to its primal state.

That moment of sadness as I watched it vanish from aboard the refugee ship

is something I haven't forgotten, even for a single day.

Zoll and his men are now having those same feelings.

If zoll and his men escape, tokarga will, of course, suffer reprisal.

Even so, they can't sit by and watch their homeworld's demise in silence.

If they are to be destroyed,

they want to be destroyed with their own people, on tokarga.

They came to steal this ship as an escape ship.

It's a fate that will someday visit earth, too.

Here and now, let zoll and his men go, without interference.

Those were heartless things I said.

Forgive me.

All forces have assumed emergency stations, sir.

Hmm.

So far, I've overlooked the broadcasts, thinking it would actually increase their will to work, but...

Yes, today's messages can only be considered an incitement to revolt or escape.

And la mime, overhearing the tokarga annihilation operation...

I see. Don't worry. They can't go anywhere.

They're cockroaches crawling over the ground.

If tochiro hadn't repaired this ship, I would have had to discard it.

Use it!

Hold on!

By using this ship, no matter the excuse, emeraldas will lose her free space trader's qualification.

Furthermore, as soon as zoll takes off,

tokarga will be attacked. They won't wait until tomorrow.

Let's go in a different ship.

Harlock, let's go to tokarga in zoll's place.

I've been waiting... Waiting for so long...

Acting as if I was a beggar... I've been waiting...!

For the day when I... I would fly my spaceship!

"My spaceship"?

I've been searching for a captain worthy of entrusting my ship to.

Where... where is there such a ship?

It's there! It's there!

Why, you! You!

Zoll, how about it? Let's use his ship and their strength.

No. This is tokarga's problem. Let us borrow your ship.

I can't do that.

The ship... is me. It's me, myself. Without me, it won't budge.

Zoll, I'll go in your place.

So ask harlock and tochiro to go to tokarga.

In return, you pretend loyalty to lllumidus, and protect the earthmen.

Illumidus is far too powerful an enemy.

The only option is to consume it like bacteria from within,

through imperceptible means! So please...

I become a bacteria on earth?

And...

We become bacteria on tokarga.

Zoll, I'll board their ship as a tokargan representative. So, you...

I've been a dog. A dog begging for the lives of my people.

A dog fighting in service to lllumidus!

Those who remained behind are clenching their teeth, believing in the day of revival.

They're holding their breath under lllumidus,

believing that someday we'll come back to save them.

When I close my eyes, I can see my little brother and sister, still very small...

Praying for the day when I return.

Their clenched teeth, their prayers that I come back alive...

Go to tokarga, I beg you!

Thank you. You're the only man to shed tears, hearing what I had to say.

Thank you.

Now, for tokarga's future!

For zoll of tokarga, a true hero,

and for harlock, tochiro, and la mime's burning hearts!

Gohram!

It's a tokargan prayer word used when toasting with truly trusted friends.

It means, there will be happiness on the paths of we blood comrades.

Gohram!

Gohram!

Gohram!

Gohram!

Take this to harlock.

Please, hurry!

Interesting. Let's see how far they take this.

This is something that miss Maya kept sewing with her own hands,

thinking of the fire burning in your heart.

Harlock, hurry!

We will protect miss Maya.

We'll be all right. Please go with peace of mind.

Harlock!

This way!

Maya! It's dangerous! Please don't go!

I haven't got long to live now.

So let me see harlock's ship on its way.

What's this?

The ship with which I fulfilled the dream of my long-ago ancestor.

Name: Arcadia!

"Arcadia"?

There can be no name, save arcadia, for the ship in which we travel.

Arcadia...

This is our ship!

Arcadia... our ship!

You... built this?

That's right, using the legacy of historic technology that I inherited.

This ship that I've built is my alter-ego!

Harlock!

This is the ship that will achieve your dreams and mine!

Harlock, what's that?

I didn't know... Do you want to go to Maya?

If I go now, Maya will be angry. She's that kind of person.

But...

With this flag flying...

With this flag flying...

I will go!

The earthmen rebel units are being put down, sir.

But we've found no sign of harlock's group.

He's a trapped rat, in any case.

Hmh? What's that?

Catapult ascent angle: 40 degrees. Balance: Normal.

Retract all circuit shields! Armament system power circuit safety: Off!

Cylinder interior oscillation rate: 360,000,000 hertz.

All normal!

Release thrust conduction conduit shutdown valve.

Begin generating artificial gravity. Switch on power to rifle radar!

Open throttle from slow speed ahead up to full.

Arcadia... lift off!

W-what is that?!

Stop your ship! Stop your ship at once!

That's the lllumidus occupation force special frequency!

E... emeraldas!

Maya...!

If you do not return to earth and surrender,

by 6 am earthtime tomorrow, they will be publicly executed!

Dammit!

In order to prevent another such revolt from happening,

this execution will be carried out at dawn, by firing squad!

Dammit!

Let's go back to earth. We can't sacrifice them.

This execution will only stir up resistance in the earthmen.

"The ship didn't return.” "they abandoned them."

Simply announcing that would be sufficient.

Just the opposite, sir.

If we don't give them an object lesson, then they'll just get insolent.

If we halt the execution,

I'm not confident we'll be able to continue subjugating the earthmen!

Earthmen executing earthmen!

Shit! Are you lllumidus dogs?!

The bastards mean to go through with the execution!

In the end, those bastards didn't come back!

You've been abandoned.

This execution is being sent to them, up in space, from start to finish.

How about it?

Why not make a last plea to them: "Please come back?"

Neither she nor I would say those words, even if our mouths were torn open.

Nor will harlock and the others return.

After all, they are cowards who only care about their own lives!

You people know nothing of real heroes.

You know nothing of the true frightfulness of the men of earth, you pathetic aliens.

What?!

Firing squad, ready!

Aim!

Harlock!

Fi-!

Z-zoll!

Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!

Fire!

- Why, you! - Why, you!

Get 'em!

Payment for this will come due.

It's an earthman-tokargan uprising! And zoll... zoll's at the forefront!

Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid!

Maya!

Dammit!

F-farewell... friend...

I'm sorry... that I couldn't carry out... m-my promise...

Tochiro, raise our flag.

Our flag?

Yes... our flag!

Arcadia will now set course for planet tokarga.

Zoll, I will keep my promise.

Maya...

Emeraldas... forgive me, I didn't want to see harlock become a slave.

That's why I called out to him to escape, via the voice of free arcadia.

As a result, zoll died.

You have a scar on your beautiful face that will last a lifetime.

Many people were wounded and captured.

All of it stemming from my broadcasts. I really should have been executed.

That's not true. Even without your broadcasts,

sooner or later, the people of earth, zoll, and I would have done this.

Harlock, tochiro, and la mime would also surely have chosen the same path.

To the officers and men of the lllumidus fleet:

This fleet will now head for earth, to reinforce the earth occupation force.

Reinforcements? Just for harlock-for one man?

- Murigson! - Yes, sir!

Rest assured, harlock will come back.

Start thinking now about how you will confront him at that time.

Y-yes, sir!

Harlock! It's planet tokarga!

But the tokarga that zoll told me about was a lush, green planet...

The planet... Tokarga is completely different.

It was them! This has to be the work of lllumidus! Shit!

Judging from the surface, planet tokarga may have already been annihilated.

But let's see for ourselves.

Everything's been blown away...

There isn't a single sign of life. Tokarga is finished.

What an atrocity...

Huh?

Damn youl!

They fought so long as the last of them had strength remaining.

Searching for zoll's brother and sister would be pointless now.

Brother zoll... come back to tokarga. Save tokarga.

Brother zoll... come back to tokarga. Save tokarga.

Hey! Hey! Long time no see!

You... you're alive!

Hey, old man! Old man!

Oh, it's good! This is good!

It's good that you're alive! It really is good! I'm so glad!

Brother zoll... Come back to tokarga.

- Brother zoll... save us... - How terrible...

To burn up even women and children!

Earth will be next.

How awful!

Brother zoll... brother zoll...

Mira!

Brother zoll... save tokarga...

Harlock, move it!

There's a supergravitic planet destruction bomb under that tower!

Damn! La mime, take care of Mira!

Harlock, do you read me?! Pull out of there immediately!

What're they doing, anyway?!

What is it? What's going on down there?

It's terrible!

There's a supergravitic planet destruction bomb near harlock and la mime!

What?!

Oh!

The lllumidus fleet!

All ships: 45 degrees to port.

Block the course of the enemy ship as it flees tokarga!

Harlock, la mime, return at once!

Arcadia, lift off!

Blast off at full speed!

Brother zoll... save tokarga...

If we go on this way, we'll run smack into the lllumidus fleet!

Can we shake them off?

Not without changing course.

But the only change we can make is to break through the prominence of the streams of fire.

The Stanley witch of space?

Right! The five fire streams suspended between the double suns besberas.

It's where the emeraldas was beaten- the most difficult passage in space.

All right! Just as my ancient ancestor tried,

so we too will challenge the Stanley witch of space!

This ship's thermal-shielding system surpasses that of the emeraldas.

But according to emeraldas...

These streams have the strange property of drawing in the life-essence of living things.

Thrust: Minus 70%. Descent velocity: Plus 4.

We're steadily being drawn in.

Our bodies, along with the ship, are being dragged into the streams of flame!

It's the witch! The Stanley witch is laughing!

Save us... brother zoll...

Hang on, Mira. We're going to see your brother zoll.

Brother zoll... L... I... did my best...

It was hard, but... we all...

Listen to me, all of you! The last tokargan female has just died.

There isn't a single female left to bear our children.

The tokargan race... is extinct.

Do not forget!

Harlock and the others have fought for tokarga at the risk of their lives.

Thrust: Minus 80%. Descent velocity: Plus 10!

That's an impressive rate of descent!

Tochiro, full throttle! Maximum thrust!

Roger! I've opened the emergency thrust valve!

Dammit!

All right! We're gaining thrust!

Harlock! We've beaten the Stanley witch!

Mira!

Mira isn't the only one who died.

What?!

To cancel the life-essence which was attracting the ship, they all...

Are you saying they jumped? Into that river of flame...?

What?! Harlock's returning? It can't be!

Message to all bases: Prepare to intercept!

Hold it!

Let them return to earth, just as they are.

Why, sir?

Let's shoot it down! It's only one ship!

Just try shooting down a lone returning ship with lllumidus's combined forces!

The earthmen will simply stir up another insurrection!

Commander, we really must intercept!

They are seeking to land on their own initiative.

Shooting down those who dare to try to return to this earth where only a harsh fate awaits...

I won't do it!

They are true men. We must meet them as befits knights.

Maya, harlock and the others are returning to earth.

I hear he openly requested landing clearance from zeda.

If he returns to earth, he will again experience hardship.

Even so, he is returning. Harlock is that kind of man.

The next time harlock and the others leave earth, let's go with them.

You've done all you can for earth!

This is the voice of free arcadia.

I will report our new frequency.

Using variable micro-current cycles... 8390... 8390...

This is the voice of free arcadia.

Let us go to the desert, bearing flowers.

Let us go to meet hope, bearing flowers.

Zoll!

Zoll, I came back as promised! But I was too late. Forgive me.

- Brother zoll... come back to tokarga... - I brought your sister, Mira.

Brother zoll... save us...!

Zoll, I won't let your death be in vain. I swear it.

You went to the trouble of coming back, just to say that to a dead man?

Here, where all our forces are waiting for you?

I can only say you're an idiot!

You don't understand?

If you don't understand, then fine.

This may make you feel good, but it is very inconvenient for earth.

Earth is now choosing to maintain its cooperative relationship with lllumidus.

Some fools still plot revolts and the like, but we will soon suppress them as well.

From now on, I want peace in the world.

Dangerous elements like you do not fit earth's policy.

Therefore, the earth government hereby sentences you all to eternal exile!

Say what?!

If you remain on earth, we will have to fight you.

Fight? Against us?

You are enemies of earth!

Enemies of earth...?

All right, then. If you say you're exiling us, then let's leave!

Harlock!

That's right!

Living does not mean clinging to earth and becoming filthy pigs.

Emeraldas!

Emeraldas...!

You two! Listen carefully!

The brutality of murigson, who shot Maya and I, won't be forgotten.

The baseness of triter, who shot zoll, won't be forgiven.

You, who have no respect for people's lives... your cruelty will not be forgiven.

I... I was...

Don't make excuses!

There is no act more cowardly than that!

This the voice of free arcadia...

I am Maya.

People of earth... I wanted to keep calling to you, always...

I wanted to keep on singing with you...

But... I cannot go on any longer. Please forgive me.

This... is the final voice of free arcadia.

Maya!

- This is... - Maya!

It's all right! It's all right!

Harlock... I was certain...

That you would come back...

That you were the kind of man...

Who would surely keep a promise to even a dead friend...

Let's go together... To that sea of stars.

I have been dreaming all along...

Of going to the sea of stars with you.

Like heiligenstadt... our arcadia... Where we ran together.

Maya!

Maya! Maya!

I had so many things to say to you... So many things to ask you! Maya!

The spirit of Maya, who kept pleading to everyone

to believe in tomorrow, has gone.

The earth government is now trying to exile us from earth, forever.

What will you do now, you who have begun walking...

The same path as tokarga?!

Remember at least a little of what Maya said!

It's all right, tochiro. If earth says it's exiling us, then let's leave!

Is there anyone who will go with us under that flag?

If there are, come aboard!

Can you swear on that flag to fight only for that which you believe in?

- I swear! - There will be no turning back!

The sea of stars is where we come from! It's our home!

- Let's go! - Yeah!

Under the flag of freedom!

Keep your filthy hands off!

That's a good friend of mine!

Hold it, harlock!

I, too, have pride.

If you want to depart earth in safety, you will have to go through me!

A duel?

Yes. I shall choose the location of the field of honor.

As in olden times, the duel will be one on one.

I will not allow anyone to interfere.

Fine.

Commander, I'm opposed to such a course of action!

You opposed me. You took matters into your own hands, and drew your gun.

Settle it yourself!

You, who are setting out now with the flag of freedom flying...

Until the day when you again return, good-bye.

I believe that no matter how far away you may be,

you will never forget earth.

No one can stop you setting out on your journey under your flag. Good-bye.

But it is because you are such a man, one who has always believed in tomorrow,

never losing dreams and hope,

that I remember with pride the days when I talked with you.

I pray that your future will be as you believe.

Good-bye, my harlock. Please live, no matter what.

I can see the red fire of belief in the future burning in your heart.

I can see the fire burning of a man who will not betray a friend.

It is because you are such a man that I love you.

I will become one of those fires in your heart.

I will become one with that fire, and burn forever... harlock...

Look, harlock...

At the red death's-head flag on my ship.

This is Maya's blood.

The pirate's Mark, painted with the blood that dyed Maya's white dress.

The ensign of blood, of all who seek freedom.

Maya... was harlock's...?

Yes... someone who did not chain down those she loved.

Someone you, too, would surely have loved.

"Follow me," huh?

What an incredible ship. No doubting that that's an lllumidus flagship.

Harlock!

I've found in you a true earthman, who cannot simply be measured by data.

The same goes...

For tochiro.

And for...

Maya.

Therefore, I have long wanted to do battle with you.

Not as commander of the earth occupation forces...

But as a samurai.

Rest assured, I will give no quarter in this contest!

The lllumidus main fleet... a huge mobile force numbering 624 ships in all.

Zeda is trying to draw us away from the area of space where the lllumidus main fleet is heading.

Increase output! Overtake them!

Roger! Enemy ship closing! Range: 500!

All hands, prepare for combat!

Velocity: Combat speed 5!

All gun turrets, stand ready for combat!

Engage retrobrakes! Reduce velocity!

Roger! Decelerating to combat speed 3!

Port side six-column gun emplacement, prepare to fire all batteries!

Firing interval: 0.1 gelm!

30 gelm to firing!

Relative velocity: 128,000.

Altitude variance: Zero!

Main Cannon tracking speed, synchronized!

Ten seconds to firing!

Eight... seven... six...

Five... four...

Three... two... one...

Fire!

Fire!

Port aft section damaged. Autocannon damaged.

Report areas of bombardment and damage!

Port torpedo tube damaged!

Exhaust port bombarded!

Hold no. 16 and the aft portion of the hangar also damaged.

Starboard reverse 180 degrees!

Decelerate 280. Hard to starboard!

Reverse 180 dolsu!

Relative velocity: 6000 gammel. Vertical angle: Vekaoctave!

Range: 6,000,000,000 balsu!

Starboard gun emplacement percussion velocity, synchronized!

Fire!

Fire!

Port side hull damaged. Unable to fire!

Tochiro! You all right?

I'm all right, but the automatic sight... Without it, the relative angle is...

Oh, the sight!

Outer hull crewmen, transfer to the center hull within 300 gelm!

Repeat: Outer hull crewmen, transfer to the center hull within 300 gelm!

A manual sight?

It's in here!

In there?

Look!

That's...!

Yes! The sight that your ancient ancestor gave to my ancestor!

This is the "eye" that tied our ancestors together...?

Yes, our eye!

Here he comes!

Roger! Steady as she goes, straight ahead!

Detach both outer hulls! Drive output maximum!

Zeda's center hull is undamaged...!

Concentrate fire on the central part of the bridge!

Got it! Damn, my hands are shaking!

Tochiro! Now!

Eat this!

Hang in there, tochiro! Keep firing!

Don't be intimidated! Fire!

You all right, tochiro?!

L... I'm still alive!

But if he comes at us once more, who knows!

All hands, abandon ship!

Commander zeda!

Commander zeda!

Zeda means to come around at arcadia head-on again.

If he comes at us once more, I can make no guarantees.

He's gonna ram right into us!

Zeda's a man of courage!

There were many such men on earth in olden times!

It's a head-on collision!

No choice! I'm firing!

Tochiro, I'm asking you! Hold your fire!

B-but...!

Harlock, when we meet in hell, let us drink together as friends!

Until then, realize your dreams without dying!

Live, and be certain to realize your dreams!

Farewell!

Too late!

Farewell, zeda! We'll meet in hell!

Harlock!

Zeda deliberately led us to a place where we can easily escape!

If we reverse course and accelerate right now,

the lllumidus fleet can't catch us!

This is our new beginning.

I don't want it said throughout eternity that I ran away at that new beginning.

Tochiro, what do you think?

I don't want to put to sea while showing my back to the enemy!

Those who face you will befall an unfortunate fate from now on...

A pirate must live a pirate's life. That is the life we chose!

All hands to stations!

Full speed, port and starboard! Prepare for boarding!

We'll reverse course, and board the bastards' flagship!

She's running away!

The only flag that will fly in space is the lllumidus battle flag!

Trample that death's-head flag!

Commander!

According to reports from the vanguard,

our energy bolts aren't going straight!

They say the computer sights are giving out inaccurate estimation data!

What?!

Harlock!

The gravity zone and the dimension wave around arcadia are producing anomalies!

Anomalies?

It seems exact if I look at it with my eyes,

but using the machinery, I can't tell the enemy's position precisely!

It was the explosion of zeda's ship...

The explosion of his ship's powerful engine warped this area of space!

Which means he did it deliberately, to protect us!

Okay! Frontal breakthrough! We're boarding their flagship!

Don't lose your heads! Keep firing!

The way you fight...

Isn't by the rules, right? Exactly! That's the way a pirate fights!

Never again come near any place where my flag flies!

Engine, red throttle, 75,000 revolutions! Blast off at full speed!

Truth of creation, which governs the universe...

My friend zoll, and his sister Mira, the pure, last tokargan female...

Are hereby entrusted to your bosom.

And so, truth, give zoll and Mira their eternal rest.

Farewell, friends.

At the faraway point where the rings of time come together...

We shall meet again.

Good-bye, Maya.

Until I come to the end of my life in the sea of stars,

I will not forget.

Are you ready, harlock?

Sea of stars...

We now leave our precious loved ones in your hands...

In the belief that righteousness rules over this sea.

We will not pray for anything.

Nor will we seek help from anyone.

Never again will we fight under another's flag.

We will keep on fighting, only for what we believe in,

under only our flag, for as long as we live.

Under my flag!

Arcadia of my youth, lift off!

Queen emeraldas, lift off!

Because I have no regrets for yesterday, which is done.

I do not need Serenity. I want solitude.

Without solitude, I cannot chase my dream.

Space! Oh, frozen sea of stars!

Citizens of earth, the lawless ones have gone!

Let us combine our strength with lllumidus, and once again build a paradise on earth!

We will...

Oh, you fools!

Dance to your heart's content in that small world of yours!

Our world is the whole of space!

The increasing scars I have in exchange for freedom

and burning pain, are signs that I live.

There was also a day when I stopped walking in love.

That, too, is part of the faraway past.

Space! Oh, parched wasteland of stars!

Let's stake everything on this life of mine!

The only thing I am after

is just a life, at the end of which I can laugh as I die.

Space! Oh, frozen sea of stars!

My spirit will continue to defy you!

The colder and stricter you become,

the hotter my blood will likely continue to burn.

Under my flag, I live in freedom.