Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999; Ginga Tetsudō 3-Nine) occurs as manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, when well as various anime films and TV series according to it. A manga is published around English by Viz.

the story is placed inside a space-faring, high-hi-tech new, in which mechanized population by having "machine bodies" come pushing humanity towards irrelevancy & extinction. a guttersnipe known as Tetsuro Hoshino desperately wants an undestroyable machine system and then that he might avenge the demise of his mother, world health organization was hunt for sport per robotic Count Mecha. When machine bodies come impossibly expensive, it is purportedly given away gratis on a planet Andromeda, a prevent of the line for the space train Galaxy Express 999 (Technology has advanced pertinent in which space-faring vehicles could take a look at any shape, like the definitive railway locomotive in the story.). Tetsuro meets higher by owning the beautiful woman, Maetel (another time translated "Maeter", two from either a Latin mater for mother), world health organization is the spit image of his dead mother. Maetel offers him passage in 999 in case he is her road companion. Tetsuro agrees.

Along the way, he meets numbers of machine population, including Count Mecha himself, whom Tetsuro kills sustaining a gun. More and more, Tetsuro understands that the machine immune system won't fix a lot of his problems. As a matter of fact, virtually all of a machine humans he meets regret the guide to give higher their humanity. Virtually 100% pathetic of all is Crystal Clare, world health organization works aboard 999. Her system, universally nude, occurs as beautiful clear crystal, eventually she longs for the warmth of the mortal touch, rather Tetsuro's.

These come when well strongly implied that Maetel has the machine immune system, as she visits her figure around Pluto, within which throwaway flesh are encased in ice in the jumbo planetary grave. Eventually Maetel too says she hwhen been endlessly travel by owning young men prefer Tetsuro; the nature and severity of her character is revealed in the motion picture as she replaces her person by using a newly man 1 to survive forever.

Characters from either more Matsumoto works come out within GE999, notably Captain Harlock, Emeraldas, and a ship (sans crew) from either Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers), and contrariwise, creating a divided continuity typically known as the "Leijiverse."

Unapologetically melodramatic, by owning extremely episodic morality-tale stories, Galaxy Express 999 has the philosophy perchance nearer to it of Friedrich Nietzsche or Ayn Rand than the eastern mysticism typically detected inside anime.

Around 1985, Roger Corman produced an English-language dub of a first GE999 moving-picture show, which changed the character list, saddled a bit of by using accents, and subverted lot of the story. The down the road dub, highborn Galaxy Express 999: A Signature Edition, is additional true to the source poop.

Around 1996, Matsumoto began a recently GE999 series, placed a year fallowing a original, where a Globe is destroyed & Tetsuro sets bent on discover a source of the "darkness" that threatens everthing life in the universe.

Footage from either a pic & TV series was utilized to produce 2 Northward Our contries computer game, a laserdisc-based arcade game "Freedom Fighter", & a CD-i home game "Escape from Cyber-City".

Manga Series
Foremost series, seralized inside Hit Comics, 1977-1981 Recently series, serialized inside Heavy Gold, 1996-??

Anime Series
TV Series, 1978, 113 episodes + Four TV special Moving picture, Galaxy Express, 1979 Featurette, Galaxy Express 999 Glass there is no Clair (Glass-mass produced Claire), 1980 Picture, Good day Galaxy Express 999 Terminus Andromeda (aka Sayonara Galaxy Express 999), 1981 Picture show, Galaxy Express 999 ~Eternal Fantasy~, 1998 Old School Style