Galaxy Express 999

Name: Galaxy Express 999
Genre: Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Hitoshi Takagi

銀河鉄道999 (1978-1981)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 113

Episode runtime: 25 min

Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Japan

Fuji TV, Tokai Television Broadcasting, Kansai TV, Fuji News Network, Fukui TV, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting, Sendai Television, SAGA TV, Ishikawa TV, TNC, Television Shin Hiroshima System, TV Shizuoka, NBS, TSK, AKT, Toyama Television, Okinawa Television Broadcasting, KTN

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Actors and characters

Video for the series Galaxy Express 999 — Opening [Subtitled]

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Production

Toei Animation

Premiere

14 September 1978

Last episode

26 March 1981

Status

Completed

Scenario

Keisuke Fujikawa

Composer

Nozomi Aoki

Producer

Roger Corman

All team (14)

Actors

Masako Nozawa

Tetsuro Hoshino (voice)

Masako Ikeda

Maetel (voice)

Kaneta Kimotsuki

Conductor (voice)

Hitoshi Takagi

Narrator (voice)

All actors and roles (4)

Short description

In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.