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dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
Space Pirate Captain Harlock continues his war against the Mazon, whether Earth deserves his help or not...
While I wasn't blown out of the water by Captain Harlock: The Classic Collection Vol. 1, I was interested enough to continue and I'm glad I did. Whereas volume 1 was mostly setup, there was a lot of meat to this one. The Arcadia goes from battle to battle, learning more about the Mazon and narrowly escaping death. The crew gets closer to some of Harlock's secrets and the Mazon threat is more resourceful than anyone thought.
Some of the gender politics in this book were ahead of their time and once again Harlock rails against humanity's complacency. You have to wonder if he won't wind up blasting earth himself in the final volume.
Mimay continues to be my favorite character, an alien female who subsists on alcohol. Daibo is coming along. Harlock's still mysterious. I do wonder if his background will be revealed in the final volume. The Mazon have a lot more depth than was apparent in the first volume.
Captain Harlock: The Classic Collection Vol. 2 was vastly more enjoyable than the first volume. To paraphrase Arnold Rimmer it has better art, better writing, bettter... better. Just better. Four out of five stars.
While I wasn't blown out of the water by Captain Harlock: The Classic Collection Vol. 1, I was interested enough to continue and I'm glad I did. Whereas volume 1 was mostly setup, there was a lot of meat to this one. The Arcadia goes from battle to battle, learning more about the Mazon and narrowly escaping death. The crew gets closer to some of Harlock's secrets and the Mazon threat is more resourceful than anyone thought.
Some of the gender politics in this book were ahead of their time and once again Harlock rails against humanity's complacency. You have to wonder if he won't wind up blasting earth himself in the final volume.
Mimay continues to be my favorite character, an alien female who subsists on alcohol. Daibo is coming along. Harlock's still mysterious. I do wonder if his background will be revealed in the final volume. The Mazon have a lot more depth than was apparent in the first volume.
Captain Harlock: The Classic Collection Vol. 2 was vastly more enjoyable than the first volume. To paraphrase Arnold Rimmer it has better art, better writing, bettter... better. Just better. Four out of five stars.
lyrafay12's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.25
bethanharcourt's review against another edition
3.0
This was my first dive into manga as well as my first time reading something in Spanish, so I maybe didn't pick everything up, but I enjoyed what I did understand and the story was interesting enough to get me to finish it in one sitting.
emeraldreverie's review against another edition
3.0
A great edition of classic manga in all its inspiring, beautiful, problematic glory. Good stuff.
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