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Jun 17, 2011 11:53 AM
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What an episode! At last we get to see things from the Mazone's point of view.
Sep 15, 2011 9:21 AM
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This may well be my favorite episode so far. Getting to witness the internal strife within the Mazone fleet was really interesting. The ending was great too.
Dec 5, 2015 2:43 PM
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Another intense episode, really great development! Looking forward to see what's next.

Also interesting new OP sequence!
Feb 21, 2017 6:19 PM
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Harlock is an idiot, protecting stupid earthlings for no reason at all, only for his pride, what a dick.
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Aug 7, 2021 10:18 AM
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Here it really shows how negatively it affect's the story when a rather short story is stretched. When portraying the mazone's being pure evil for almost half the show then it feels really yarring to pull 180.

The manga probably gives a more balanced view from early on so it probably is more coherent.

Nov 10, 2022 4:35 PM
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Kuruwin said:
Here it really shows how negatively it affect's the story when a rather short story is stretched. When portraying the mazone's being pure evil for almost half the show then it feels really yarring to pull 180.


I don't necessarily agree. The first half of the series shows us the Mazone almost entirely from the POV of earthlings. We learn more about the Mazone as Harlock and the crew of the Arcadia themselves do, and slowly we are beginning to learn there's more to them than we were able to know on first sight, such as the fact that they themselves are refugees of a cataclysmic event that destroyed their homeworld. Their leadership is still as ruthless as ever - the anime remains entirely consistent there. We are just beginning to learn now that there are also civilians who are caught in the crossfire.

I think the pacing of the story is really quite excellent.
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Feb 27, 2023 8:14 PM
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There are so many innocent Mazone civilians, and knowing that really opens up one's eyes.

Will Harlock's crew be able to save any of them?

Nov 4, 5:10 PM
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starting with zolba and that girl mazon we started to change our view of mazon, this episode was great in developing this, it feels more like a tirany that rafflesia haves, they exterminated a race just to create a garden hahah, so yeah at least they started to better this aspect cause i was getting bored of how comically bad they were, even the daughter of chief maji didnt show any emotions towards him, its nuts how bad they were portrayed, not even a glimpse of empathy, great development cause honestly all chief stuff was crazy
Nov 8, 12:31 AM
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This might be my favourite episode so far. This is getting really good! I’m glad we’re seeing more depth for the Mazone. This is amazing

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