The Space Graveyard - Deathshadow
The Arcadia travels to Deathshadow Island, Captain Harlock's asteroid base. He examines the device that Combat Commander Zol gave him in the previous episode. It tells him and the others about the Mazone fleet and the sorts of ships it includes. The Mazone flagship of Queen LaFresia is blindingly bright.
The Mazone send a second beacon. The first was sent to Earth. This one they send to Mars. Captain Harlock sees where it is headed but chooses to let it land on Mars. He sets a course for the Andromeda Galaxy in the hopes of finding the Mazone fleet there.
The Arcadia arrives in the Andromeda Galaxy 17 days later. The Arcadia is pulled into a trap, an antimatter gravity planet, also known as a Deathshadow. The crew wants to do something but it is useless. They are trapped. The Arcadia is unable to move. The situation changes when a Mazone rapid attack fleet strikes. Captain Harlock's turns the weapons on the Mazone ships and destroys them all.
Captain Harlock muses to himself that someone must have helped them.
Thoughts
Deathshadow Island is named after the Deathshadow, the Space Graveyard. I thought for a moment when I was watching that I wrote down the wrong name for Captain Harlock's asteroid base.
Mayu shows up briefly at the beginning of this episode. She is also mentioned by Captain Harlock later in the episode.
Who helped the Arcadia escape from the trap? That part is unclear. Captain Harlock does "talk" to Mayu's dead father. Maybe he had something to do with it? I don't know.
This is the sort of episode that seems to expand the universe within which the story takes place without any decisive action.
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