Captain Harlock/YMMV

• Evil Is Sexy: The Mazone.
• French Love Captain Harlock: Or, more precisely, "Albator".
• Fridge Horror: There's a Running Gag that Emeraldas is the dangerous twin and Maetel the harmless one, even though Maetel is the one who blew up a planet because she was disgusted. Not only is it the people who know them best making those remarks, but the twins fully agree. You have to wonder what the hell happened to consider a woman who destroyed a planet as harmless by comparison 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.
• Needs More Love
• 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 (!?). She even is forced to clean a church by herself with water dragged from a nearby stream.