YMMV / Captain Harlock

• Awesome Music:
  • The French theme, particularly when sung by Michel Barouille.
  • The English dub theme from ZIV plants its feet firmly in disco territory, resulting in the infamous catchiness of "Take to the skkkkkyyyyyy...".
  • The Italian version of the opening theme. Immortal? An euphemism. [1]
• French Love Captain Harlock: Or, more precisely, "Albator".
• Fridge Horror: About the Running Gag of saying that Emeraldas is the dangerous twin and Maetel the harmless one, when Maetel is the one who blew up a planet because she was disgusted. Becomes Fridge Horror when you realize that not only are the people who know them best making those remarks, but the twins fully agree, making you wonder what the hell happened to consider a woman who destroyed a planet harmless when compared to Emeraldas.
• Macekre: Several times; most egregiously, Carl Macek himself combined one series with Queen Millennia to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years.
• Moral Event Horizon: It's debatable when Lafresia crossed it. Was it when she forced other conquered races to take down Harlock by holding their families hostage, kidnapped Mayu to lure Harlock away from his defense of the earth, killed Mazones who refused to follow her to Earth, or (somewhat belatedly) used human shields? Whatever the case, she certainly crossed it.
• Tear Jerker: The entirety of episode 10 of SSX.
• Ugly Cute: Tochiro is this to some fans - his SSX version especially.
• The Woobie: Mayu in the first series. The television show takes a perverse pleasure in torturing the seven-year-old girl in increasingly horrible ways. She's never actually abused, but has her pet bird eaten by a hawk, gets attacked by wolves (!?), and she even is forced to clean a church by herself with water dragged from a nearby stream (with other kids being instructed to go in and pray without wiping their feet first so she has to continually redo it). And never mind that she gets kidnapped by the Mazone and dragged off to a remote planet later on, either.