Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick

Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick or Moby Dick: Great Whale in Space (白鯨伝説, Hakugei Densetsu; lit. 'White Whale Legend') is a Japanese animated television series, based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, which aired from 1997 to 1999. However, this adaptation used futuristic outer space as the setting, with "whales" being large abandoned spaceships instead. It aired from 9 April 1997 to 12 May 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 US by ADV Films, spread across six discs, it was then dubbed into Arabic by Venus Center and aired on Space Power from 2008 to 2014, and then from 2016 to 2019, after which it became a segment on Spacetoon.