Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Reiko Mutô: Mâya
Quotes
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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.
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[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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Mâya : [on the radio] However great the suffering, think of it as a harbinger for making tomorrow's meeting even more beautiful, and please do not succumb to seductive despair. Do not forget the freshness of the dawn, or the wind; please remember that day when we ran hand in hand through that green field, overflowing with love...
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Mâya : Harlock...
Captain Harlock : Maya, watch out! Take cover!
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Queen Emeraldas : Maya, Harlock and his crew are returning to Earth. I hear he openly requested landing clearance from Zeda.
Mâya : If he returns to Earth, he will again experience hardship...
Queen Emeraldas : Even so, he is returning. Harlock is that kind of man. The next time Harlock and the others leave Earth, let's go with them. You've done all you can for Earth.
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Mâya : [on the radio] This is the Voice of Free Arcadia. If you burn yourself out, only ashes will remain. A fire of living hope will never go out. Someday it will spread from person to person as a wildfire, and with their hands a new future is born. In order to protect that fire, no one laughs, even if you go far away tomorrow. People will believe that you will surely return...
[a shot interrupts the broadcast]
Captain Harlock : Did she get out?
Queen Emeraldas : I can envision her: the kind of person whom, within a gentle body that seems it may shatter when touched, holds fiery magma. That broadcast just now was a personal message to someone; she sent it aware of the danger...
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Mâya : I haven't got long to live now, so let me see Harlock's ship on its passage...
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Mâya : This is the Voice of Free Arcadia... I am Maya. People of Earth, I wanted to keep calling to you always... I wanted to keep singing... but I... I cannot go on any longer... please, forgive me... this is the last of the Voice of Free Arcadia...
[slumps to the ground]
Captain Harlock : Maya!
[takes her in her arms]
Mâya : This...
Captain Harlock : Maya! It's all right! It's all right!
Mâya : Harlock... I truly believed that you would come back... that you were the kind of man... who could keep a promise even to a dead friend...
Captain Harlock : Let us go together to that Sea of Stars.
Mâya : I have been... dreaming for so long... of going to that Sea of Stars with you... like Heiligenstadt... our Arcadia... where we ran... together...
[closes her eyes...]
Tochirô Ôyama : Maya!
Captain Harlock : Maya, Maya! I had so many things to tell you, so many things to ask you... Maya!
