Queen Millennia

Queen Millennia
Cover of first manga volume, with spines from remaining four volumes (Sankei editions).
新竹取物語 1000年女王
(Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō)
GenreAdventure, science fiction
Manga
Written byLeiji Matsumoto
Published bySankei Shimbun
Nishinippon Shimbun
MagazineSankei Shimbun
Nishinippon Sports
DemographicSeinen
Original run28 January 198011 May 1983
Volumes5 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written byKaeko Iguchi
Leiji Matsumoto
Illustrated byLeiji Matsumoto
Published bySankei Shuppan
ImprintJunior Shōsetsu
Original runDecember 1980August 1981
Volumes2 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written byKeisuke Fujikawa
Illustrated byLeiji Matsumoto
Published byShueisha
ImprintCobalt
Original runJanuary 1981March 1982
Volumes3 + 1 film novel (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written byKen Wakasaki
Illustrated byLeiji Matsumoto
Published byBunka Publishing Bureau
ImprintCobalt
Original runJune 1981March 1982
Volumes3 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed byNobutaka Nishizawa
Written byKeisuke Fujikawa
Shigemitsu Taguchi
Hiroyasu Yamaura
Toyohiro Andō
Music byRyudo Uzaki
Tomoyuki Asakawa
StudioToei Dōga
Original networkFuji TV
English network
Original run 16 April 1981 25 March 1982
Episodes42
Anime film
Directed byMasayuki Akehi
Produced byKenji Yokoyama
Written byKeisuke Fujikawa
Music byKitarō
StudioToei Dōga
Released13 March 1982
Runtime121 minutes

Queen Millennia (Japanese: 新竹取物語 1000年女王, Hepburn: Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō, lit. "The New Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Millennium Queen") is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto[2] which was serialized from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime television series by Toei Dōga and broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981[2] through 25 March 1982.[3] An anime film was released on 13 March 1982 shortly before the TV series ended.[4]

The anime series was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with episodes from the 1978 Matsumoto series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and shown from 1985 to 1986 in the United States as the 65-episode Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years.[5][6] The series was broadcast in Germany on Tele 5 during 1992,[7] on New Channel in Greece in 1997 and on Mangas in France in 2004.

  1. ^ The series was never broadcast in the United States on its own, but was combined with Space Pirate Captain Harlock and aired as Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years.
  2. ^ a b "New Shows of Spring Preview: Queen Millennia (春の新番組プレビュー 新竹取物語1000年女王, Haru no Shinbangumi Purebyū: Shin Taketori Monogatari Sennen Joō)". Animage (in Japanese). 33. Tokuma Shoten: 54–55. March 1981.
  3. ^ "テレビ篇" [Television Works]. 1998 Animage Pocket Data Notes (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Tokuma Shoten. March 1998. p. 31.
  4. ^ "Queen Millennia (1000年女王, Sennen Joō)". Animage (in Japanese). 46. Tokuma Shoten: 42–45. April 1982.
  5. ^ Patten, Fred (2004). "Japan + Animation = Japanimation! Part 2". Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. p. 256. ISBN 1-880656-92-2.
  6. ^ Ledoux, Trish; Ranney, Doug (December 1995). "Animated Television Series". The Complete Anime Guide. Issaquah, Washington: Tiger Mountain Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 0-9649542-3-0.
  7. ^ "Die Königin der tausend Jahre" (in German). Wunschliste.de. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2009-04-29. Alt URL