Some time later Tadashi is summoned by Prime Minister Kirita as he learns that the boy is aware of the space pirate's refuge Capitan harlock, which he is hunting. However, Tadashi does not want to betray the one who saved his life and with whom he made a deep friendship, so he refuses to cooperate and in response the prime minister has him arrested on charges of treason. All this, however, concerns a very specific plan, in fact Tadashi is now nothing more than a lure to bring Captain Harlock to save him. In his cell, Tadashi meets Yattaran, deputy commander of Arcadia who got himself imprisoned in order to have him escape. Thanks to Yuki Kei, a blonde girl from the crew of Capitan harlock, who manages to evade the surveillance of the guards Tadashi and Yattaran manage to escape and foil the plan to capture Harlock, but they also have an encounter with some Mazonians always hunting for Tadashi and his information, who are killed by Yattaran. After escaping aboard a shuttle, Yattaran reveals to the two that the Mazonians arrived in the solar system many years ago and planted their "seeds" by mixing with the human race and assuming the appearance of women to deceive the earthlings, the conquest of the earth is vital to them as their planet has exploded and they find themselves wandering through space in search of a homeland. Meanwhile, Yuki spotted a fleet of Mazonian spacecraft ready to attack their spaceship. A tough battle then begins where, however, Yattaran's spacecraft seems to have the worst, as it is severely hit. Tadashi faints, but when he wakes up he finds himself on a bed in an infirmary, aboard the Alkadia with the legendary Captain Harlock next to him. The three in fact were rescued from Captain Harlock's Alkadia and his crew who defeated the Mazonian ships. Among the various characters of Alkadia we remember the figure of little Mayu, a little girl who has the particularity of playing an ocarina with a sweet and poignant melody, which contributes not a little to the "dark" atmosphere of this anime. Mayu was entrusted to Captain Harlock after the death of her parents: Tochiro Oyama, a very short guy, but the greatest astronaut engineering scientist in the universe and Emeraldas a beautiful woman with long red hair. Captain Harlock met Tochiro Oyama and Esmeralda several years earlier, inside a saloon where he defended the two, subsequently the two managed to save him from hanging and after an escape they became friends. Tochiro Oyama is actually the Alkadia construction engineer who after his death was reincarnated in the onboard computer of the spaceship to which Captain Harlock speaks as if it were a human being. Of note are the episodes of the cartoon "My friend, my youth" and the subsequent "The secret construction of Alkadia". Although Captain Harlock manages to defeat the Mazonians of Queen Raflesia (between the two there is a sort of admiration and respect), saving the earth from danger, the men will continue to hunt down our hero, which will force Halock to continue the his wandering in space. But the originality of this series is also given by the fact that there is no precise boundary between the good and the bad and in fact, Minister Kirita will eventually become friends with Harlock even managing to save the very precious Alkadia on-board computer, from the Mazonians . Likewise Queen Raflesia, she is not an evil queen, but she is only forced to save her people.

After this mythical television series, other cartoons about Captain Harlock have been made, but they have few elements in common with the first series.
These are: "The Arcadia of my youth", "Captain Harlock - 2nd series" of 1982 and "Captain Harlock and the ring of the Nibelungs".

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