Arcadia of My Youth

Waga Seishun no Arcadia (Japaneseわが青春のアルカディア, GV " The Arcadia of my youth ") is a 130 -minute science fiction anime and was built in 1982 by the Toei Company and The Tokyu Agency Ltd.. produced.

The story gives an insight into the beginnings of the space pirate Harlock, whose adventures were published in several television series, manga and films. Author of the manga, which served as a template, is Leiji Matsumoto, the TV series such as The Queen of the 1,000 years, Battleship Yamato, The cockpit and Galaxy Express 999 designed.

The television series The Adventures of fantastic space pirate Captain Harlock tells of events that lie after Waga Seishun no Arcadia. The term Arcadia, which was derived from the Greek landscape Arcadia, describes an ideal, imaginary place.

Action

The earth has lost the war against an extraterrestrial humanoid race who Illumiden, and all the colonies have to give up on other planets. The surviving colonists have to work for the occupiers on the ruined earth as slaves.

Captain Harlock, who flies a refugee ship to Earth, realizes that his fiancee Maya runs an illegal rebellion transmitter, and then refuses to serve the Illumiden. As Harlock the mechanic Tochiro get to know, both are finding that their ancestors have come to know in the turmoil of the Second World War.

After the failed attempt Harlocks and his friends to save the planet Tokarga and its population from destruction by the Illumiden, Harlock is banished from the earth. His surviving friends and allies to go with him into exile. Zedas proposes Harlock before a duel that this win with the help of a sighting device from the Second World War. Subsequently, attacks Harlock to the illumidische fleet.

People

• Captain Harlock is from a Germanic Piratenritterklan whose headquarters in the Holy City, which is like all earthly cities is completely destroyed. Two of his ancestors Phantom F. Harlock and Phantom F. Harlock II present in flashbacks.
• Toshirō Ōyama is Harlocks best friend. He is a brilliant inventor and mechanic who has built the spacecraft Arkadia without help. His connection to Harlocks family goes back to the time of the Second World War.
• Maya is Harlocks fiancee and operates the rebels station " Voice of Free Arcadia.
• La Mime is an alien and one of the last survivors of their planet which was destroyed by the Illumiden. La Mime is the Illumiden as reluctant as inches.
• Emeraldas is a free trader in space and captain the merchant ship "Queen Emeraldas " although both their ship and their clothes are already decorated with a skull and crossbones symbol. She knows Harlock long and is good friends with him.
• Customs is a tokargischer soldier in the service of Illumiden. His planet was already conquered long before the earth. Inch is the conquerors only reluctantly, because he fears for his family on Tokarga.
• Zeda is the commander of the occupying forces Illumidischen on earth and a very proud man.
• Murigson is ZEDAS deputy and responsible for the atrocities against the population.
• Triter is the Chairman of the Committee for Cooperation with the Illumiden and is a man who wants to tune the occupiers mild to obtain benefits for the population.

Synchronization