- Title card: At the end of their lives, all men look back and think that their youth was Arcadia.
- [Harlock's plane crashes]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Damn, it's wrecked!
- Toshirô Ôyama: What are you doing? Hey! Get out of there before it blows!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: [fiddling with his gunsight] I've got get take this out with me at least...
- Toshirô Ôyama: A Revi C-12D!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: This is my eye. Whether in the Battle of Britain or the African Campaign, it's always been my eye.
- Captain Harlock: We will not pray for anything. Nor will we seek help from anyone. Never again will we fight under another's flag. We will keep on fighting only for what we believe in, under only OUR flag, as long as we live! Under MY flag!
- Toshirô Ôyama: What... what are you going to do?
- Phantom F. Harlock II: I can't run into a sanctuary. It is the way of the pirate to take responsibility for his actions.
- Phantom F. Harlock I: The fuselage was heavy that day, with a full load of fuel. Unable to gain altitude, Arcadia's engine gasped terribly. The sound of the cylinders, seemingly out of breath, resembled the irregular beat of my aged heart. Arcadia and I flew as best as we could, seeking a ravine we could slip through; but the Owen Stanley Mountains looked down on Arcadia and I coldly, without stirring in the slightest.
- [Harlock navigates snowfalls and canyons, but cannot find a way out of the Mountains]
- Phantom F. Harlock I: Arcadia and I were beaten in battle in the sky for the first time in our lives. I turned back, swallowing my regret, when I chanced to look back...
- [hears taunting laughter]
- Phantom F. Harlock I: The mountain... the mountain was laughing.
- Phantom F. Harlock I: In the belief that with Arcadia I was in a world where there was no such word as defeat, I kept flying. I kept ten minutes' worth of gasoline, and jettisoned the rest into the air, thus lightening the fuselage. I staked everything on those ten minutes.
- Phantom F. Harlock I: My name is Phantom F. Harlock. This plane, with whom I have shared joys and sorrows, is the Arcadia of my youth. I kept flying, believing in myself. I have no regrets about my life. Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
- [about World War II]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: It's Ragnarok, all right...
- Toshirô Ôyama: But my battle still isn't over.
- Toshirô Ôyama: How could they even start such a damned war?
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Both of us feel it pointless, huh?
- Toshirô Ôyama: Uh-huh... if I was going to do something, I'd rather work on a brighter future... like going to the moon, maybe.
- Phantom F. Harlock II: I believe that one day the time will come when we too can fly there.
- [Both gaze up at the moon]
- [During an aerial attack. Harlock II readies his plane for battle, but Toshiro loiters around]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Toshiro! What's wrong? Get going!
- Toshirô Ôyama: There's no place for me to go, anywhere, anymore. Go to Wiesbaden, from there you can escape to Switzerland. A powerful Allied Tank Corps is coming from the other side of that town. There's nowhere I can go now. I at least hoped I could go to Switzerland and continue my research, but...
- [Harlock opens up a hidden compartment and pushes Toshiro in]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: It's a bit cramped, but bear with it.
- Toshirô Ôyama: My house was cramped too...
- Phantom F. Harlock II: There's no bulletproof plating in there; if you get shot, don't hold it against me!
- Toshirô Ôyama: I won't!
- [after Harlock II's plane is ripped apart by spitfire]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Toshiro, you all right?
- Toshirô Ôyama: Yeah! Thanks to that, I got a beautiful view now!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: My eye... there isn't a single plane that has escaped once trapped within my Revi C-12D!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Toshiro, do you want to return to Japan?
- Toshirô Ôyama: Naturally! What about you, Harlock?
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Yes...
- [loses himself in reflection]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: [thinking] I want to return to Arcadia... Heiligenstadt, my home, whose forests and lakes are compared to that ancient Greek paradise... the place where my youth will forever run through green fields... the homeland of the Germanic pirate-knight Harlock clan. At the end of a journey, all my kinsmen think of their homeland. We hear the voice of Arcadia's pirate-knight spirit calling...
- [Harlock II crashes his plane]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Toshiro, neutral Switzerland is on the other side of this river! Get out and run!
- [There's no answer]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: What's wrong, Toshiro? Don't just sit there! What are you doing?
- [Harlock opens the compartment and discovers Toshiro had connected his body with the plane's wiring, and that he has been wounded]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: [shocked] Toshiro, you... you held the severed wire with your body... that's why the stick was so soft... I'm sorry Toshiro I didn't realize...
- Toshirô Ôyama: It's not like I'm dead. My hand's torn up, that's all.
- Phantom F. Harlock II: [holding out his gunsight] Toshiro, take this and go home.
- Toshirô Ôyama: That's...
- Phantom F. Harlock II: My Revi C-12D. I'm giving it to you.
- Toshirô Ôyama: But that's...
- Phantom F. Harlock II: To a true man who I can believe in, to a true friend, I can give up my eye or even my heart.
- Captain Harlock: Why did you act like a beggar?
- Tochirô Ôyama: It's what you'd call a one-man revolt.
- Captain Harlock: Revolt?
- Tochirô Ôyama: That's right!
- Captain Harlock: How can that be a revolt, when you don't have weapons, or anything?
- Tochirô Ôyama: If there were weapons to be had, would you do it too?
- Captain Harlock: Weapons? There aren't any, anywhere!
- Tochirô Ôyama: [chuckles] In any world, there are loopholes, you know.
- [produces a gun]
- Triter: Now then... we have decided to send a volunteer dispatch of troops to Tokarga.
- Captain Harlock: To Tokarga?
- Triter: We want to give you the duty of transporting the troops.
- Captain Harlock: A volunteer corps, for what purpose? For what reason must Earthmen go to Tokarga?
- Triter: You pledged total loyalty to Earth didn't you? That's fine, so did I. Now you must kill either your mother, or a stray dog.
- Captain Harlock: Earth is the mother, and Tokarga the dog, right?
- Triter: Yes. As far as Illumidus is concerned, Tokarga has served its purpose.
- Captain Harlock: Annihilate Tokarga? Liquidate it? Just who decides if that planet is useless? To WHOM is it useless? All life has worth! And yet you enlist Earthmen to take the duty of destroying Tokarga? Earthmen, by their own hands? You're scum!
- Triter: Shut up! If we cooperate with Illumidas and send a volunteer corps to Tokarga, Earth's safety will be assured forever! You've called me scum, but would I NOT be scum if I let Earth be destroyed to save another planet?
- [At dinner, Harlock sets his eyes on a young youth for the first time]
- Captain Harlock: It's hard on you too, huh? I know how you feel inside. But right now, all we can do is shut up and eat. We've been beaten after all, but that does not mean we've been destroyed.
- [the youth finishes his meal, and walks away. As he passes by Harlock, he deposits a bottle of sake]
- Tochirô Ôyama: Don't die.
- [walks away from a surprised Harlock]
- Captain Harlock: And here I was feeling sorry for you...
- Tochirô Ôyama: [examining Emeraldas's ship] Those are unusual burns...
- Queen Emeraldas: I failed to cross the Prominence of the Streams of Fire, also known as the Stanley Witch of Space. It's a terrifying place, where in addition to tremendous thermal energy, there is also supergravity which attracts living energy to itself.
- [Zoll and a squad of Tokargan soldiers approach Harlock, Tochiro and Emeraldas]
- Captain Harlock: You bastard, how rotten are you? Do you desire so much the degradation of being an Illumidus dog?
- La Mîmé: Stop it, Harlock! Zoll didn't come here to arrest you. He came to steal the Emeraldas, they're trying to return to Tokarga...
- Zoll: Mime, stop it! It's nothing to tell them about!
- La Mîmé: My planet was wiped out by Illumidus and returned to its primal state. I watched from the refugee ship as it vanished, and that moment of sadness is something I have never forgotten, not even for a single day. Zoll and his men now have those same feelings. If Zoll and his men escape, Tokarga will of course suffer reprisal; even so, they can't sit by and watch their homeworld die in silence. If they are to be destroyed, they want to be destroyed with their own people on Tokarga. They came to steal this ship as an escape ship. It is a fate that will someday befall Earth too. Here and now, let Zoll and his men go, without interference.
- Captain Harlock: [to Zoll] Those were heartless words I said. Forgive me.
- Tochirô Ôyama: The spirit of Maya, who kept pleading to everyone to believe in tomorrow, is gone. The government now wants to exile us from Earth, forever! What will you do now, you who have begun walking the same path as Tokarga? Remember at least a little of what Maya said!
- Captain Harlock: Is there anyone who will go with us under our flag?
- [Two Earthmen run towards Harlock and salute him]
- Tochirô Ôyama: He's gonna ram right into us!
- Captain Harlock: Zeda's a man of courage. Such men existed on Earth in olden times.
- Tochirô Ôyama: It's a head-on collision! No choice - I'm firing!
- Captain Harlock: Tochiro, I command you to hold your fire!
- [looking around the Arcadia]
- Captain Harlock: You built this?
- Tochirô Ôyama: Yes, with my inherited knowledge of technology. This ship is my alter-ego. Harlock, this is the ship that will achieve your dreams and mine.
- Toshirô Ôyama: Someone's coming!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: French Resistance, who have entered German territory. Don't worry, I'll get you away from them no matter what!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Are you Japanese?
- Toshirô Ôyama: Yeah, I'm here with the Technical Exchange. I'm an optical machinery designer; my name's Toshiro Oyama.
- Phantom F. Harlock II: I'm Phantom F. Harlock II.
- Toshirô Ôyama: [holds up a book] Harlock? Then you're the Harlock who wrote this book?
- Phantom F. Harlock II: That book was written by my father.
- Toshirô Ôyama: I see...
- [skims through the book]
- Toshirô Ôyama: "Arcadia of My Youth"... only men can appreciate such feelings.
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Something like that.
- Phantom F. Harlock II: Tochiro, don't abandon your dreams. Live, no matter what...
- [Harlock is hit]
- Toshirô Ôyama: HARLOCK!
- Phantom F. Harlock II: I'm glad to have met you at the end of this vain war. I wish we'd met in different times...
- Toshirô Ôyama: HARLOCK, don't die! DON'T DIE! Harlock, as long as the bloodline of my family lives on, our friendship will not be forgotten! IT WON'T BE FORGOTTEN!
- Zoll: I've been a dog... a dog begging for the lives of my people... a fighting dog in service to Illumidus! Those who stayed back home are clenching their teeth, believing in the day of revival! They're holding their breath under Illumidus believing we'll return to save them one day! When I close my eyes, I can still see my young brother and sister, still little, praying for the day I return... their clenched teeth, their prayers that I come back alive...
- [kneels in front of Tochiro]
- Zoll: I beg you, go to Tokarga!
- [Tochiro breaks into tears]
- Zoll: Thank you. You're the only man who's shed tears hearing what I have to say.
- Mâya: Emeraldas, forgive me. I didn't want to see Harlock a slave. That's why I called to him to escape via the Voice of Free Arcadia. As a result, Zoll died, and you have a scar on your beautiful face that will last a lifetime, and many people were captured and wounded. All of it, coming from my broadcasts. I should have been executed.
- Queen Emeraldas: That's not true. Even without your broadcasts, sooner or later the people of Earth, Zoll and I would have done this. Harlock, Tochiro and LaMime would surely have taken the same path.
- [Harlock listens to a recording]
- Mâya: You, who are setting out with the flag of freedom flying, goodbye, until the day you return. I believe that no matter how far away you may be, you will never forget Earth. No one can stop you setting out on your journey under your flag. Goodbye. But, it is because you are such a man, who has always believed in tomorrow, never losing dreams or hope, that I remember with pride the days when I talked with you. I pray that your future will be as you believe. Goodbye, my Harlock. Please live, no matter what. I can see, burning in your heart, the red flame of belief in the future. I can see the fire burning of a man who will never betray his friend. It's because you are such a man, that I love you. I will become one of those fires in your heart, I will become that fire, and I will burn forever... Harlock.
- Zêda: Harlock! I have found you to be a true Earthman, who cannot simply be judged in terms of data. The same goes for Tochiro, and for Maya. I have long wished to duel with you, not as commander of the Earth Occupation Forces, but a warrior. Rest assured, I will give no quarter in this battle!
- Queen Emeraldas: Harlock! Zeda deliberately led us to a place where we can easily escape! If we reverse course and accelerate immediately, the Illumidus fleet can't catch us!
- Captain Harlock: This is the beginning... I don't want it said throughout history that I fled at the beginning. What do you think, Tochiro?
- Tochirô Ôyama: I don't want to put to sea while showing my back to the enemy!
- Queen Emeraldas: [smiles] From now on, those who run into you will be unfortunate!
- Captain Harlock: Pirates have pirates' ways! Those are our ways! All hands to stations! Full speed, port and starboard! Prepare to board! We'll reverse course, and board the bastards' flagship!
- Captain Harlock: The truth of creation that governs the universe... my friend Zoll, and his sister Mira, the last pure Tokargan female; are hereby trusted to your bosom. Farewell, truth; give Zoll and Mira eternal rest.
- Tochirô Ôyama: Farewell, friends.
- [the coffins carrying Zoll and Mira are deployed into space]
- Captain Harlock: We will meet again, at the far place where the ring of time is linked. Goodbye Maya. Until I reach the end of my life in the Sea of Stars, I will never forget you.
- Tochirô Ôyama: Are you ready, Harlock?
- [Harlock is silent, so Emeraldas gives the signal, and Tochiro deploys Maya's coffin]
- Captain Harlock: Sea of Stars, we now leave our precious loved ones in your hands, in the belief that righteousness rules over this sea...
- Title card: I live in freedom under my flag.
- [Zeda's final words to Harlock]
- Zêda: Harlock, when we meet in Hell, let us drink as friends. Until then, realize your dreams without dying! Live, and be certain to realize your dreams! Farewell!
- [first lines]
- [During World War I, a pilot is seen flying a biplane through a mountain range amidst a fierce thunderstorm]
- Phantom F. Harlock I: My name is Phantom F. Harlock. At that time, I was flying amidst rolling thunder from Port Moresby, traversing New Guinea, heading for Rabaul, on New Britain Island. As an aerial explorer, conquering the sky throughout the world was the dream upon which I staked my life. It was the Owen Stanley Mountains that stood in my way; its highest peak was 5030 metres, the mountain that has come to be feared by men as the Stanley Witch.
- Phantom F. Harlock I: My name is Phantom F. Harlock, and this plane is the flesh of my flesh, sharing my blood; the friend that shares my fate; the Arcadia of my Youth. When this plane, with whom I shared my youth, with whom I rode the skies, has ceased to fly, so too will my life cease.
- Mâya: This is the Voice of Free Arcadia. The sun sets, and rises again. The future does not come to those who don't believe in it. All who believe have endured for long, and will someday meet up with you. Someday we will combine our forces and live the future with you. No matter how small a flame there may be, do not let it go out. Believe in our tomorrow...
- Mâya: [on the radio] This is frequency 6050, using variable micro-current cycles... The sun which set yesterday will rise again this morning. And we believe that sun will rise again tomorrow...
- Captain Harlock: That voice...
- Mâya: We believe in our future. Hear me, those who try to live, those who can live, on Earth...
- Captain Harlock: Maya...
- Mâya: Though the ground was burnt and everything turned into ashes, we will revive again. The sky is still blue, the crashing waves from long ago are unchanged. This is Earth, our planet. This dream is in the hearts of people; so long as they do not abandon it, it will not fade away. For the sake of tomorrow, keep a song in your heart. For the sake of our future, let us stop our crying and stand on our ground firmly.
- Mâya: [singing] Thought the night goes on, the sun will not die. At the end of the darkness, it will keep shining. Lift up your faces, friends, and look up at the dawn. Friends who still do not see, tomorrow will surely come. Within the frozen ground, the flower's secret life continues on. Friends, do not lose the seed of hope. Friends whose names I do not even know, tomorrow will surely come...
- Phantom F. Harlock II: All fighters, regroup!
- [looks around and sees no one at his side]
- Phantom F. Harlock II: I'm the only one left... Revi C-12D, my eye... it's just us now.
- Captain Harlock: The dream has come to an end... Earth is now the only place for Earthmen to live... This is our defeat... is it all over?
- Zêda: This is the Illumidus Occupation Force. Follow these commands and land at Base 446. If you resist, we will destroy your ship at once!
- Zoll: Captain Harlock, isn't it?
- Zoll: Disarmament is being carried out here. Hand over your gun.
- [Harlock draws his pistol... and hands it over]
- Zoll: That was a violent landing you made; unavoidable, given the condition of the runway. But in addition you intended to make your ship inoperable.
- Captain Harlock: That's right.