Tags: Anime, Cartoon.
Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick (白鯨伝説 Hakugei Densetsu) 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.