Space Symphony Maetel (2004)

Original title

宇宙交響詩メーテル ～銀河鉄道999外伝～

Genre

science fiction anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy travels across the galaxy on a mystical space train. He seeks a mechanical body that grants immortality in a world where humans can transfer their consciousness into machines.

slow-burnmelancholicdreamlikecontemplativenostalgicfuturisticwistfulatmospheric

What happens

Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999（スリーナイン）, Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain; "999" read as "Three Nine") 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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