Galaxy Express 999

is a manga created in 1977 by Leiji Matsumoto. Many anime movies and television series were created based on this manga. It is set in a high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions into mechanical bodies. By doing so they achieve practical immortality.

The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. 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.

The movie _Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy_ was released in 1998.

## References

6

. The Galaxy Express 999 is based off the Japanese National Railway C62.

## Infobox (animanga/header)

- **name**: Galaxy Express 999
- **ja kanji**: 銀河鉄道999
- **ja romaji**: Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain
- **genre**: Space opera


## Infobox (animanga/print)

- **type**: manga
- **author**: Leiji Matsumoto
- **publisher**: Shogakukan
- **demographic**: _Shōnen manga, Shōnen_
- **magazine**: Manga-kun <small>(1977–1979)</small>,
Shōnen Big Comic <small>(1979–1987)</small>,
Weekly Young Sunday <small>(1987)</small>
- **first**: January 24, 1977
- **last**: November 6, 1981
- **volumes**: 18


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: tv series
- **director**: Nobutaka Nishizawa
- **writer**: Hiroyasu Yamaura
Keisuke Fujikawa
Yoshiaki Yoshida
- **music**: Nozomi Aoki
- **studio**: Toei Animation
- **network**: Fuji Television, Fuji TV, Animax
- **first**: September 14, 1978
- **last**: March 26, 1981
- **episodes**: 113
- **episode list**: List of Galaxy Express 999 episodes


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: movie
- **title**: Galaxy Express 999 (movie), Galaxy Express 999
- **director**: Rintaro
- **writer**: Shiro Ishimori
- **music**: Nozomi Aoki
- **studio**: Toei Animation
- **released**: 1979
- **runtime**: 130 minutes


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: movie
- **title**: Adieu Galaxy Express 999
- **director**: Rintaro
- **writer**: Hiroyasu Yamaura
- **music**: Osamu Shooji
- **studio**: Toei Animation
- **released**: 1981
- **runtime**: 130 minutes


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: ova
- **title**: Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy
- **director**: Konosuke Uda
- **writer**: Junki Takegami
- **music**: Kohei Tanaka (composer), Kohei Tanaka
- **studio**: Toei Animation
- **released**: March 7, 1998
- **runtime**: 121 minutes


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: ova
- **title**: Maetel Legend
- **director**: Kazuyoshi Yokota
- **producer**: Takaji Matsudo
- **writer**: Leiji Matsumoto
- **music**: Masamichi Amano
- **studio**: Vega Entertainment
- **licensee**: Central Park Media, U.S. Manga Corps <small>(USA)</small>
- **released**: 2000
- **runtime**: 40 minutes (each)
- **episodes**: 2


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: tv series
- **title**: Maetel Legend, Space Symphony Maetel
- **director**: Shin'ichi Masaki
- **producer**: Leiji Matsumoto
- **writer**: Mugi Kamio
- **music**: Taro Hakase
- **studio**: Vega Entertainment
- **network**: Animax (Pay-per-view, PPV Premier)
- **first**: August 6, 2004
- **last**: June 20, 2005
- **episodes**: 13


## Infobox (animanga/footer)