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HIDIVE Adds Queen Millennia Anime on September 2

HIDIVE announced on Tuesday that it will add all 42 episodes of the television anime based on the late Leiji Matsumoto's Queen Millennia (Shin Taketori Monogatari Sennen Joō) manga on September 2. The anime will stream in Japanese with English subtitles.

Sentai Filmworks is releasing a Complete Collection Blu-ray Disc with all 42 episodes of the anime on the same day.

Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

When the brilliant Professor Amamori makes the shocking discovery of a new planet in our solar system, the discovery comes with the terrifying realization that the gigantic world Larmetal's projected path could soon destroy the Earth! All hope is not lost, however, as Amamori's own assistant, Yayoi Yukino was secretly sent from Larmetal to gather humans as slaves.Yet her interactions with humans like Amamori's nephew Hajime have begun to make her question her mission. Still, even with the aid of super-science, can one woman defeat the forces of Larmetal and save mankind? The classic space opera from the legendary Leiji Matsumoto is unleashed in QUEEN MILLENNIA!

The television anime adaptation by Toei Doga (now Toei Animation) aired from 1981 to 1982, and the Queen Millennia Movie anime film debuted in 1982. Harmony Gold combined footage from the anime and Captain Harlock and released it as the Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years series.

Matsumoto serialized Queen Millennia in the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers from 1980 to 1983.

Source: HIDIVE