| Galaxy Express 999 | |
.jpg) Cover of the 1994 reprint of the first manga volume | |
| 銀河鉄道999 (Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain) | |
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| Genre | Space opera[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha and Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen King |
| English magazine | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | January 24, 1977 – November 6, 1981 |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Nobutaka Nishizawa |
| Written by | Hiroyasu Yamaura Keisuke Fujikawa Yoshiaki Yoshida |
| Music by | Nozomi Aoki |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Original run | September 14, 1978 – March 28, 1981 |
| Episodes | 113 |
| Anime film | |
| Galaxy Express 999 | |
| Directed by | Rintaro |
| Written by | Shiro Ishimori |
| Music by | Nozomi Aoki |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | August 4, 1979 |
| Runtime | 132 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Adieu Galaxy Express 999 | |
| Directed by | Rintaro |
| Written by | Hiroyasu Yamaura |
| Music by | Osamu Shoji |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | August 1, 1981 |
| Runtime | 130 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy | |
| Directed by | Osamu Dezaki |
| Written by | Kazumi Koide |
| Music by | Ichiro Nitta |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | March 7, 1998 |
| Runtime | 54 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Maetel Legend | |
| Directed by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Mugi Kamio |
| Music by | Masamichi Amano |
| Studio | Vega Entertainment |
| Licensed by | U.S. Manga Corps (USA) |
| Released | 2000 |
| Runtime | 41 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Space Symphony Maetel | |
| Directed by | Shinichi Masaki |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Mugi Kamio |
| Music by | Taro Hakase |
| Studio | Azeta Pictures |
| Original network | Animax (PPV Premier) |
| Original run | August 6, 2004 – June 20, 2005 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Manga | |
| Galaxy Express 999 Another Story: Ultimate Journey | |
| Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Illustrated by | Yuzuru Shimazaki |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Magazine | Champion Red |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 19, 2018 – present |
| Volumes | 7 |
Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999, Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain) 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 future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions with perfect fidelity into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.[2][3]
The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978.[4] The anime series won the Animage 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.[5]
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- ^ "One Hundred Japanese Books for Children (1946–1979)". International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka. Retrieved February 7, 2007.