#Harlock and Yama

[katatsu-chan]

There's a new kid on board and he has a problem with Yama

(fusion between the 78's anime and 2013 CGI verse because I can)

(yes I removed kei's panties on her outfit because I do what i want)

(The captain is secretly enjoying Yama getting bullied by Tadashi)

[kalira]

Earthly Expedition

Written for @domaystic! Day 11: volunteering

T; 1.6k Harlock/Yama, Tochiro (Arcadia)

With the Arcadia's greenhouse bay now well established, the plants growing there can be carefully diversified via an expedition down to the Earth's surface to collect new samples; Yama stepping forward as the one to do that, as a matter of course, brings up some unexpected revelations.

[mikurulucky]

Well, finally watched the 2013 Harlock movie and it was... eh, alright. I can definitely see why it was panned back when it came out ngl, but the animation and the voice acting in the Japanese version was good at least.

This ain't Captain Harlock though. This is the Final Fantasy AU of Captain Harlock. There's a good story there, but it would've been more fitting for a Final Fantasy game.

At least Harlock's Japanese voice doesn't make me cringe like the English voice for him did. It's deep in tone and intimidating and not too whispery.

The characters though deserve time in Supernanny's ol' naughty chair for being assholes. The og characters weren't as mean spirited as half of y'all, y'all suck lol.

[remyfrenchrat]

it always breaks me how tragic harlock is when you put his timeline together

did you know that in the 2013 movie english dub & sub they don't have the ICONIC quote from the french dub? "the instants that repeat themselves become eternity" (les instants qui se répètent deviennent l'éternité, ce qu'il dit lorsqu'il prend la fleur tendue par Yama et puis il lâche une larme)

[ Je vois que beaucoup de gens meurent parce qu'ils estiment que la vie ne vaut pas la peine d’être vécue. J'en vois d’autres qui se font paradoxalement tuer pour les idées, les illusions qui leurs donnent une raison de vivre. Ce qui peut être une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir. ]

[jpf-sydney]

Harlock Space Pirate

DVD review

Sleek yet gritty, this is the CGI take on an iconic sci fi franchise. Heavily action oriented, massive fleet battles in the depth of space are as frequent as starship boarding actions and close quarters combat.

A rebellious youth, enmeshed in the closing throes of an interstellar guerrilla war, finds himself aboard the dreaded skull-faced star ship Arcadia. Soon he is sailing the galaxy under the command of the infamous renegade, Captain Harlock. Sleek yet gritty, this is the CGI take on an iconic sci fi franchise. Heavily action oriented, massive fleet battles in the depth of space, boarding actions and close quarters combat are seldom far away.

It should be mentioned that, in this incarnation, Harlock is not the main character. Certainly not by screen time. The protagonist of the story is the new recruit Yama/Logan who has been likened to the character of Tadashi Daiba from the original.

The Captain Harlock property hails from the same fanciful mind and times that gave birth to improbabilities such as steam locomotives running through space and historical battleships resurrected to travel to other planets. Matsumoto Leiji was involved in several sci fi manga touchstones. These of dubious realism, but enduringly evocative, also tended to feature crossovers and cameos from characters of another series. Continuity wise they are all loosely contained in what has been coined the Leijiverse.

Shelf: 778.77 ARA (@ video section) Harlock : space pirate directed by Shinji Aramaki. [Australia] : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2014.

1 DVD : sound, colour ; 12 cm.

Cataloged from the container. Based on original characters and stories created by Leiji Matsumoto ; screenplay by Harutoshi Fukui, Kiyoto Takeuchi ; animation production Toei Animation ; English screenplay adaption by Steven Foster. DVD (Region 4, PAL); aspect ratio (2.39:1) letterbox; English soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1. Dubbed in English. No subtitles.

[brokenjardaantech]

9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

thanks @radio-chatter for the tag!

1. Three ships: Piers Nivans/Chris Redfield (nivanfield) from Resident Evil 6, Male Ryder/Reyes Vidal (mreyder) from Mass Effect: Andromeda, Alejandro Vargas/Rodolfo Parra (aledolfo/alerudy) from the rebooted Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

2. First ever ship: harlock/yama (or logan if you go by the english dub) from Space Pirate Captain Harlock, the 2013 CGI movie version

3. Last song: Fleeting Worlds from the Nier: Replicant vers 1.22... soundtrack. real predictable here.

4. Last movie: Avatar: The Way of the Water

5. Currently reading: physically? Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jaren Diamond. online? SCP-4010

6. Currently watching: technically? Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, but I only watched the prologue and is now waiting for all the episodes to be released before binging it.

7. Currently consuming: water

8. Currently craving: concentration to finish up one of my older longfic wips

[ulkaralakbarova]

Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Captain Harlock (voice): Shun Oguri Yama (voice): Haruma Miura Miime (voice): Yu Aoi Yattaran (voice): Arata Furuta Tori-san (voice): Ayano Fukuda Isora (voice): Toshiyuki Morikawa Nami (voice): Maaya Sakamoto Roujin (voice): Kiyoshi Kobayashi Soukan (voice): Chikao Ohtsuka Kei (voice): Miyuki Sawashiro Film Crew: Director: Shinji Aramaki Original Story: Leiji Matsumoto Screenplay: Harutoshi Fukui Screenplay: Kiyoto Takeuchi Production Manager: Jeannette Maher-Manifold Music: Tetsuya Takahashi Visual Effects: Koichi Noguchi Theme Song Performance: ONE OK ROCK Movie Reviews:

[canmom]

Now to comment a little more substantially from the vantage of 1. having seen the movies and 2. not being pressed to jot something down in a couple of hours before we go live lol.

The most striking thing about both these films of Aramaki is how much they felt like videogame cutscenes. What's remarkable is that they felt like cutscenes from two very different types of videogame.

Harlock felt very much like a JRPG, especially a Final Fantasy. Its visual language pulled heavily from Star Wars, with a reasonable dash of videogame concept art but in terms of how its characters acted, the plans they advanced, the particularly flavour of the melodramatic turns of the plot, it felt overwhelmingly like it would fit somewhere in the FF7-13 period.

It was definitely a pretty stupid movie, but it stayed on the fun side of stupid. Just delightful sci-fi spectacle nonsense as the Arcadia flew around blasting lasers everywhere and blowing up hundreds of spaceships, just about everything turned out to be a hologram, and planet-sized superweapons were pulled out of nowhere. Harlock managed to become even more chuuni with a backstory about how he became immortal after he destroyed the whole Earth by accident and that's why he's so mysterious and brooding.

As an adaptation of the Leijiverse… well, some of the designs, like Harlock himself, were spot-on. The alien girl fulfilled the quota of Leiji Matsumoto 'very long woman', but the more realist style meant there were very few gnomes with tiny eyes running around, more's the pity. The Arcadia was delightful, but the other ships in the movie tended to fall into the 'greebled block' design pattern - although the superweapons were pretty damn sick.

One of the funniest designs was Kei. If this is a game, it feels like one that's been modded with hair and titty mods specifically for her.

Looking at her design now, I can see signs of Matsumoto's design sensibility. Of course, she gets a gratuitous shower scene and has to be rescued multiple times despite her acrobatic martial arts. I think you could guess all that from glancing at her.

Curiously, for a film about Harlock, it didn't focus on the man himself so much as his successor character, Yama, who joins the crew on behalf of his evil brother and switches allegiances multiple times. There's some of that Harlock '???? sentimality' (to quote @schizsune) with a love triangle that ends in Yama's brother turning off his crush's life support while she tells him she loved him all along, not his brother. And of course, plenty of delicious shots of machinery and pipes.

By contrast, Appleseed Alpha felt like a Metal Gear knockoff. Sadly nobody gave a speech about memes or American imperialism, but the design of the MGRR-esque cyborg characters (so concept-art core), and of course the major setpiece was a giant robot superweapon. The villain's speech about how war is good actually definitely is subpar as Metal Gear villain speeches go, but its delivery hit the vibe exactly.

Visually, it managed an impressive feat of feeling just like an in-engine cutscene in a videogame. I think it's a combo of the detailed, mocapped characters in somewhat lower-res environments, not to mention quite noticeable 3D-scanned objects, and of course all the military tech fetishism. Most of the film's beats felt like videogame plots as well - you could see, this is where you'd be following an objective marker, and here's a staged boss fight.

The animators seemed absolutely in love with an original (non-manga) character for this movie, cyborg gang leader Two Horns, who moves from being a secondary antagonist to almost a deuteragonist after shrugging off a whole series of deaths. Robot muscles are absolutely everywhere. Of course there's a sexy ninja girl one with an exposed robo-ribcage, who gets mechaguro'd. (So, to be fair, does the main villain.)

Animation wise, certain shots gave the surprising feeling of being animated on 2s. Framing back through them, it turns out they were not animated on 2s - but the feeling of it came from the lack of motion blur and heavily emphasised held poses, which I thought was interesting. Here for example is a robot running:

(inline imagesets! maybe there's something to this CPU-hog of a new post editor)

The major silhouette changes happen over just a couple of frames, while near-held poses last for a lot more frames. In this way, the timing creates almost a stop motion feel. There is also zero motion blur on the robot here, in contrast to nearly every other scene. They've emphasised clarity here, to avoid the robot disappearing into a blur of indistinct mechanical shapes.

The design work in this film is definitely cool, although it does feel like a random cross-section of ArtStation got together to make a film. The insubstantial story is pretty much what I expected, although it seems a shame that no adaptation has ever quite managed to capture the feeling of a Shirow manga.

Having seen both of these films (and Another Impact), I think I better understand what led to SAC 2045 being... like that. This was an interesting window, and definitely will have it in mind when the time comes to check out some Final Fantasy movies, which are its closest cousins.

(Also I did not mention above, but the Harlock movie was mainly animated by Marza Animation Planet, formerly Sega's cutscene department who did the pre-animated cutscenes in Sonic '06. They're also known for contributing to FFXV Kingsglaive and most recently, joining just about every CG studio out there in working on the recent Sonic movies. So that's a thing to add to the database of 'random facts about Japanese animation studios' I have in my head.)

Animation Night 152: Shinji Aramaki

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Animation Night! Tonight I'm running late as ever, but I have a curiosity to present to you!

CG in anime is generally speaking a dirty word. Something to be tolerated, or begrudgingly acknowledge it wasn't bad. Exceptional studios such as Orange (of Houseki no Kuni [AN97], Beastars and most recently Trigun Stampede) may escape the stigma by cleverly integrating 2D layouts, but they're surrounded by a wasteland of CG (often on Netflix) that is mechanical, awkward and just unappealing.

The style of CG in anime also tends to be designed towards imitating, or integrating with, traditional animation. Cel-shading is the order of the day, established all the way back in GitS:SAC with its tachikomas and helicopters. And generally speaking, that's a good approach! When it's not followed, as in the case of Psycho-Pass season 3, the results often look very jarring.

But there are exceptions to every rule!

We covered one of them back on Animation Night 85, with the bizarre Square-Enix project Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, which tried to apply the then-very new technique of motion capture to create something like a movie-length videogame cutscene. And this is the start of another strain of Japanese animation (perhaps not anime! depending on whether you define anime in a geographical or technical way) - the feature-length CG animated film.

Let's start with Shinji Aramaki, who has spent decades trying to bring anime fans around to the idea of CGI. Aramaki got his start back in the 80s, doing mechanical design on OVAs like Megazone 23 and Bubblegum Crisis. He debuted as a director with Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987), and in 1989, he became the third director of the constantly-reinventing-itself Megazone 23, following on from Ishiguro and Hirano (AN103) on Part I, and Itano and Umetsu on Part II. So, an old hand at the past way of doing things.

In the 2000s, Aramaki returned to direction jumped on CGI, directing early CG animated films such as Appleseed (2004) in cel-shaded style, following Gainax in adapting the dense Masamune Shirow manga, and its sequel Appleseed Ex Machina in 2007 which started moving the stylisation away from cel-shading. In this time, full-CG movies were still very new; Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children dropped only in 2005. Aramaki continued to drill into full-CG with a mecha series Viper's Creed and a Starship Troopers sequel film. From that you can probably get a sense of his taste: he likes mecha!

The results received mixed reviews, as often about the technology as the movies themselves. The first Appleseed inspired Toshio Suzkui of Studio Ghibli to declare it would revolutionise animation, which doesn't seem to have been entirely borne out.

Still, when Toei decided to do a new CG adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto's renowned Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Animation Night 146), famously first taken on by Rintaro, I suppose Aramaki must have seemed a natural choice. If Appleseed had been made on the cheap, Harlock was the opposite, costing 3 billion yen as the most expensive Japanese CG film (and maybe animated film?) evaaaa, surpassing CG-heavy megaprojects like Eva 3.0+1.0, Otomo's Steamboy and In This Corner of the World. Toei clearly had big ambitions for the return of Harlock.

So. The style of this Harlock resembles more closely videogame cutscenes, or the films of Square Enix's Visual Works, than Aramaki's past films: realistic materials and lighting, only mildly stylised character designs. In contrast to the 'aliens everywhere' maximalism of the original Leijiverse, this film puts a more antiheroic Harlock in conflict with a human government, in the context of space colonists attempting to resettle Earth and fighting a big old war over it. Which isn't to say there's a shortage of alien superweapons, dark matter, and plans to reset the entire universe. It sounds pretty wild.

Following Harlock, Aramaki would continue to direct CG, including a cool take on an Eva launching for a short film for the Animator Expo, and then perhaps his most infamous creation: a sequel to GitS SAC, in SAC 2045, which brought in a plasticy CG style in place of the beloved traditional animation that proved... divisive at best. But this didn't stop him; his most recent work is a Blade Runner TV series, titled Black Lotus.

Alongside that, he continued to work on adapting Appleseed, rebooting the story yet again with Appleseed α in 2014 with CG studio Sola Digital Arts - indeed, Sola is pretty much Aramaki's studio, with almost all of their works directed by him.

Shirow's series, a predecessor to Ghost in the Shell, deserves a better introduction than I can write tonight - but it's the territory you'd expect: post-apocalyptic cyborgs in a bleak world. Far more than the others, α - which is something of a prequel, telling how the main characters came to the city where the story is set - was highly praised for its exceptionally detailed animation and mocap, though not so much its plot.

I admit, I'm taking a big chance on both these films. Neither managed to make much impact on release, but I'm definitely curious to see this anime that isn't 'anime'. (My original plan was to make this a story about a specific CG studio, but I decided it would be better to put the Final Fantasy films side by side on a night when I can write a proper history of FinFan!)

Animation Night 152 is going live now at twitch.tv/canmom. I'd love to see you there!

[zacekova]

Of Bees and First Impressions

Summary: Tochiro was standing in the doorway, his hands pressed together as if in prayer and expression appropriately grave, eyes closed in a display of sorrow. “And so lies the great Captain Harlock, brought down long before his time by a lowly bee. May he rest in peace.” Harlock threw a pillow at him.

Pairing: Harlock/Yama|Logan  Characters: Harlock, Tochiro, Yama|Logan 

@ruledeargremlinchild, since you were wondering what fic that line came from, even though I’m pretty sure you’re not in this fandom even if you’ve seen the movie... 

(His feet are stuck to the sidewalk, frozen in place with the force of the universe pressing down on him. Fate has brought him here - some fortune beyond his wildest dreams has aligned the stars to make this moment happen, to create the magnificent creature he sees through the glass. Eyes like the ichor of the gods, rich and gold and flecked with sprigs of summer green, and a smile as dazzling as the sun on the sea. He is ruined before he remembers to breathe again.)

Harlock looked up when he heard the door open.

Tochiro was standing in the doorway, his hands pressed together as if in prayer and expression appropriately grave, eyes closed in a display of sorrow. “And so lies the great Captain Harlock, brought down long before his time by a lowly bee. May he rest in peace.”

Harlock threw a pillow at him.

Tochiro managed to catch it and clutched it to his chest like a string of pearls, scoffing with all the prideful airs of a refined lady of pedigree. “Rude! And after I’ve come all this way to you in your time of need. I thought we were friends.”

Harlock shook his head, hoping the hair falling over his face was hiding his smile. “Yeah, yeah. Did you get my text?”

Tochiro reached into his jacket and pulled out a Brown’s bag with flourish. “As requested, only the finest of gas station food for you.” He tossed it over, brow furrowing when Harlock caught it and started opening the packaging with glee. “I still don’t get how someone who grew up like you did can like those things. Even I think they’re disgusting.”

Harlock bit back a grin and turned his nose up, chewing through a mouth full of deep fried, greasy, delicious mushrooms and swallowed with as much dignity as he could muster. “I’ll have you know I have highly refined taste.”

Tochiro’s expression went flat. “Right. Okay. Say I believe you, how do you explain that?” he said, gesturing at the stained bag in Harlock’s oily fingers.  

He grinned. “Palate cleanser.”

Tochiro laughed, shaking his head and sitting down on the mattress by Harlock’s knees. “Alright, whatever. Weirdo.”

Harlock smiled, the remaining tension in his nerves finally settling under the familiar cadence of teasing banter and Tochiro’s comforting presence; he always made Harlock feel better.

Tochiro smiled back and rotated to lean his spine against the foot of the bedframe. “So you wanna tell me how you ended up in here?”

Tochiro also made him hate his life. “Uhh.”

(There’s dirt on the young man’s hands, caked under his fingernails; it should be gross but he can’t find it in himself to care when those same fingers are also so slender and graceful, dexterous and delicate as they sort through the stacks of papers on the desk and hand him a colorful pamphlet. “Hi! Welcome to Gaia Botanical Gardens! Would you like to join our next tour group or would you rather explore the grounds on your own?”

He glances at the schedule up on the wall, then at the analog clock beneath it - the twelve-thirty tour is to be lead by “Logan.” He turns back to the employee with eyes like melted caramel and scans for his name tag. A smug smile graces his lips when he finds it. “A tour would be lovely.”)

The door opened before Harlock could make up an excuse explain anything, revealing a tall, young man with shaggy hair carrying a tray, various snacks and drinks scattered across it. “The cafeteria didn’t have any ice cream left but there was some pudding,” the guy was saying. “I don’t know what kind you like so I just grabbed one of- Oh. Hi.” He had finally caught sight of Tochiro sitting on the bed with his leg wedged in next to Harlock’s and eyebrows raised in curiosity; his eyes flicked between the two of them, expression neutral.

Harlock jumped at the chance to change the topic. “Logan, this is my friend Tochiro. Tochiro, this is Logan. He was kind enough to drive me to the hospital.”

(Oh god, you’re swelling. You’re really swelling. You need to go to the hospital. Shit. Shit, where’s my keys?”

Harlock gestures vaguely toward the kid’s back pocket. He’d seen the outline of what was probably a ring full of keys (and, yes, he had been staring, could anyone really blame him? Those jeans were tight ).

His larynx is going to start constricting any second now. He’s going to start dying and the last thing he’s going to see through his rapidly-swelling eyes is Logan’s flushed cheeks and frantic pocket-patting.

Totally worth it.)

Tochiro smiled nice and easy because he’d always been the better of the two of them at socializing and thrusted his hand out. “Hey, nice to meet you. Thanks for taking care of this guy for me,” he said, nodding in Harlock’s direction.

Logan smiled politely and shook Tochiro’s hand. “It was no trouble. My shift was over anyway and he didn’t have anyone to go with him.”

(You came here alone, right?”

Harlock nods, his cheeking knocking against Logan’s head where it’s wedged under Harlock’s shoulder, supporting his woozy self as they trudge as quickly as his wobbly legs can take them out the side door and through the parking lot.

“Anyone I should call for you?”

He’s panting, lungs working in overtime to get oxygen through his narrowed bronchials, but he manages to squeeze out, “It can wait till we get there,” his voice rasping and labored.

Logan nods and calls out to a pretty girl watering some flowers by the wall. “Nami! Clock me out, will you?”

She looks up, eyes widening. “Uh sure. What’s going on?”

“I’ll tell you later!”)

Tochiro’s eyes pinched in curiosity. “Your shift?”

Uh oh.

Logan’s brow furrowed and he glanced over at Harlock where he was subtly trying to gesture for him to stop, abort, change the subject. Something. Anything . But Logan didn’t seem to notice and barreled on. “Uh, yeah, at the botanical garden? That’s where he got stung.”

Shit.

Tochiro’s head began to turn - Harlock could hear the creaking of his spine as it rotated, slowly, painfully; creepy and terrifying like a body possessed by demons -  and his eyes blazed with murderous, unholy fury. The monster had been unleashed. “You went to a botanical garden?” he asked, low and quiet. Dangerous.

Harlock resisted the powerful urge to flinch, but only just. “Umm… there were extenuating circumstances-”

(“A friend gave me a cactus once because he said, and I quote, ‘even you can’t kill this.’ It was dead in a month.”

Logan laughs, light and free like birds in the springtime, like the tinkling of a rocky stream, like angels singing from within the heavenly gates. Harlock must have been a saint in another life to be able to see this.)

“You dumbass!” Tochiro shouted. “What were you thinking?”

Nothing appropriate, but he wasn’t about to say anything.

(His work polo stretches taut over his arms as he lifts the massive flower pot and carries it out of the middle of the aisle. He has a tan line around his biceps, rich brown meeting soft pearl, and Harlock is weak.)

Logan’s eyes were wide, darting back and forth between them.

Harlock sighed. He had accepted this inevitability when he had knowingly walked through Gaia’s gate, trailing after his own personal Achilles. But no way was he admitting that to Tochiro. “I suppose I wasn’t,” he said.

Tochiro deflated a bit, as Harlock had planned, shoulders slumping. “Yeah, no shit.”

Logan’s eyes narrowed. “Wait. So you knew you were allergic to bees?”

Damnit. Harlock sent a silent prayer to the heavens for mercy; no one here had any in their hearts for him. But he couldn’t lie, not to Logan. “I… was aware, yes.”

Logan’s eyes widened in panic. “You idiot, you could have died!”

Harlock grinned, raking his gaze up and down Logan’s frame. “Well. The view was to die for.”

Logan flushed up to the tips of his ears, mouth gaping. “I- You-”

Tochiro’s nose wrinkled. “You’re not talking about the flowers anymore, are you?”

He wasn’t talking about the flowers.

“Yep, I’m out,” Tochiro said, raising his hands in the air and heading toward the door. “You two lovebirds are on your own.” He paused in the doorway and turned to give Harlock a thumbs up behind Logan’s back before disappearing.

Logan’s jaw was still unhinged, looking at Harlock in blatant surprise, and Harlock smiled.

(“Well it looks like you’re going to get your own private tour!” he says, still smiling with all the brilliance of a newborn star. “If you don’t like crowds, you definitely picked a good time to come in.”

He cannot think, can hardly breathe, but somehow words come out of his mouth in coherent form. “I’m just on my lunch break.” His heart is racing, beating against the cage of his ribs so hard he’s surprised Logan hasn’t commented on it.

“Must be a long lunch break,” he says.

Harlock hums and doesn’t say that he’s definitely going to be late clocking back in. “And what better way to spend it?” he does say, eyeing Logan appreciatively.

But Logan’s gaze is on a bed of gerber daisies and he doesn’t seem to hear the suggestion in Harlock’s tone, already moving to explain how the aqueducts carry water to the whole garden.)

“I suppose I was a little too subtle with my… interest in you?” Harlock asked, hoping he wasn’t going to have to spend the night comforting himself from a rejection on top of recovering from a severe allergic reaction. He might need more mushrooms.

Logan’s jaw slammed shut and his eyes darted away. “I- Yes. You were.”

Harlock nodded and leaned forward, getting himself in Logan’s line of sight again. “Is that a problem? My being interested in you?” he asked, heart hammering in his chest. “Because I am. Very interested.”

Logan’s gaze roved over his face, expression going soft, relieved. “No,” he breathed. “No it’s not.”

Harlock’s heart skipped in his chest, the rhythm picking back up twice as fast as before. “Can I take you out for dinner?”

Logan nodded. “Yes. Yes, please .”

Harlock smiled. “Let’s get out of here.”

[alemvy]

supasu pairetto kyaputen harrokuuu sketches

[thedragonofmajima]

Logan: *puts hand over harlocks to pull the lever*

Harlock: *looking over* are we about to kiss right now

[art-in-arcadia]

[kalira]

Worthy

T; 1k Harlock/Yama

Yama gently teases Harlock out of contemplations on a point he can't quite understand before he sinks so far as to begin brooding.

Another piece polished up from the Music Shuffle Challenge I did for them in 2018! And revisiting a theme Harlock slips into all too easily, really. . .

[mad-madam-m]

The Shipping Ship

Title: The Shipping Ship Fandom: Captain Harlock Pairing: Harlock/Yama Word count: 2487 Rating: T Summary: Tochiro has been waiting for Harlock to find someone for a hundred years. ONE. HUNDRED. YEARS. And now the perfect person has waltzed onto the Arcadia and Harlock is going to do...nothing. Absolutely nothing about it. That's fine. Tochiro might be a ship now, but by God, he can still wingman with the best of them. Read it on AO3!

[the-eternal-captain-harlock]

[yuzukisuoh]

Space Captain: H A R L O C K