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Galaxy Express 999 is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, later adapted into a number of anime films and television series. It is set in a spacefaring, high-tech
Cover of the 1994 reprint of the first manga volume
Night on the Galactic Railroad, sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad, Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad in the Stars, is a Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927
Galaxy Express 999
…Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981. Matsumoto was inspired to create Galaxy Express 999 by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa. An impoverished boy named Tetsuro Hoshino desperately wants an indestructible machine body, giving him the ability to live forever…
Night on the Galactic Railroad, 1985 anime with protagonists depicted as cats