Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick

Overview

Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick is an animated Japanese television series, based on Herman Melville's original novel Moby-Dick. However, this adaptation used futuristic outer space as the setting, with "whales" being large abandoned spaceships instead. It aired from 1997 to 1999, albeit with a suspension of new episodes from November 1997 to October 1998. The series ran for 26 episodes, which have been released on DVD in the USA by ADV Films, spread across six discs.

Details

Status

Ended

First aired

April 9, 1997

Last aired

October 1, 1997

Episodes

26

Network

NHK

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Sony Music Entertainment (Japan),Tezuka Productions

Creator

Osamu Dezaki

IMDb

tt4060956