Capitaine Flam was the French title given to Captain Future, the Japanese animated series adapted from Edmund Hamilton's pulp science fiction stories and first broadcast in Japan in 1978. The French version arrived on TF1 in the early 1980s with its own memorable sung opening, which became inseparable from the show for French audiences. Generations who grew up with youth programming blocks kept quoting and sharing the theme, and short clips now resurface on TikTok and soundboards as a shorthand for retro space adventure and French anime nostalgia.