Season 1 • Episode 113
LatestIn 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.
Direction
Leiji Matsumoto's dreamy, melancholic vision of infinite space
Writing
Each planet is a self-contained existential crisis
Production
1978 animation that aged like a haunted lullaby
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matsumoto's 'Maetel' design became iconic — that Russian fur coat on a space train? Pure unhinged aesthetic commitment.
The series was so expensive that episodes 14-18 were recaps with new narration to buy production time.
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