Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Saw this around 1980 when the local Spanish UHF station was taken over by Nippon TV every Saturday night. I count my blessings that it was subtitled and not the hideous US dubbed version that turns up in closeout bins.

Great stories, great voices and great music. Animation quality went in and out but the overall design of the show was exceptional. This was the place that the famed anime director Rin Taro got his start.

Without going into a detailed description, I'll just say the the next anime that inspired me so completely has been Cowboy Bebop. Extremely hard to find now even in Japan, I'll forever curse my cheapness and not taping every episode. VHS tapes were about $20 a piece back then, I was working as a bike messenger and the SLP recording speed didn't exist yet.

As a correction to another post; there was absolutely no "sex" in this show, although some brief nudity when the evil aliens got blown up!