Arcadia of My Youth

Arcadia of My Youth (わが青春のアルカディア Waga Seishun no Arukadia) is an anime film depicting the origin of Leiji Matsumoto's seminal character Captain Harlock. The film was originally released in 1982, and is directed by Tomoharu Katsumata, with Kazuo Komatsubara as animation director.

Synopsis
After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus Empire. Harlock, a captain in earth's fleet, crashes his ship to prevent the Illumidus from using it, and flat-out refuses to join them. With the help of his allies, Tochiro and the space pirate Emeraldas, and his lover Maya, he wages a private and bitter war against the Illumidus.

Dubbing History[]

The film was dubbed by Frontier Enterprises in Tokyo around 1987, by commission from Toei. The film was originally released on VHS in 1987 by Celebrity Home Entertainment under its "Just For Kids" label as Vengeance of the Space Pirate. Like most of their releases, it was heavily cut, excising about 40 minutes of content. Most notably the lengthy pre-title prologue concerning one of Harlock's ancestor's attempting to fly over the tallest peak (known as the Stanley Witch) of the Owen Stanley Mountain Range in New Guinea.

The film was later re-released by Best Film & Video along with many of the other anime released under the Just For Kids label. It was given the alternately translated title of My Youth in Arcadia, and features the full uncut dub of the film. The dub was not included in AnimEigo's 2003 DVD release. In 2017, Discotek Media released the film on DVD and Blu-Ray with the uncut English dub included.

Cast[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Harlock	Makio Inoue	Lanny Broyles
Tochiro Ōyama	Kei Tomiyama	Walter Carroll
Queen Emeraldas	Reiko Tajima	Carrie Sakai
Maya	Reiko Mutō	Michelle Hart
La Mime	Yuriko Yamamoto	Gerri Sorrells
Zeda	Tarō Ishida	William Ross
Zoll	Shūichi Ikeda	Cliff Harrington
Muriguson	Takeshi Aono	Richard Nieskens
Triter	Hitoshi Takagi	Mike Worman
Bird	Hiroshi Ōtake	Didi Moore
Mira	Hiromi Tsuru	Justine Simons
Black Suited Commander	Hidekatsu Shibata	Jeff Manning
Phantom F. Harlock I	Yujiro Ishihara	Lanny Broyles

Additional Voices[]

Avi Landau

Notes[]

The translation of the title used for most releases, Arcadia of my Youth, is a mis-translation. The proper translation is My Youth in Arcadia. The Best Film and Video VHS release uses the proper title.

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Region	Country
Celebrity Home Entertainment	1987	NTSC	United States
Best Film & Video Corp.	1995	NTSC
East West Entertainment	2005	0 NTSC
Discotek Media	2017	1 NTSC
Discotek Media	2017	A DVB-T