galaxy express 999 |
english |
Difino
| • | ' North American editions of the second Galaxy Express 999 manga.]] Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999; Ginga Tetsudō Three-Nine) is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. The manga is published in English by Viz. The story is set in a space-faring, high-tech future, where mechanized people with "machine bodies" are pushing humanity towards irrelevance and extinction. A street urchin named Tetsuro Hoshino desperately wants an indestructible machine body so that he can avenge the death of his mother, who was hunted down for sport by the robotic Count Mecha. While machine bodies are impossibly expensive, they are supposedly given away for free on the planet Andromeda, the end of the line for the space train Galaxy Express 999 (Technology has advanced to the point where space-faring vehicles can assume any shape, such as the classical locomotive in the story.). Tetsuro meets up with a beautiful woman, Maetel (sometimes translated "Maeter", both from the Latin mater for mother), who is the spitting image of his dead mother. Maetel offers him passage on 999 if he will be her traveling companion. Tetsuro agrees. Along the way, he meets many machine people, including Count Mecha himself, whom Tetsuro kills with a gun. Increasingly, Tetsuro realizes that a machine body won't fix all of his problems. In fact, most of the machine people he meets regret the decision to give up their humanity. Most pathetic of all is Crystal Clare, who works aboard 999. Her body, always nude, is a beautiful clear crystal, yet she longs for the warmth of a human touch, like Tetsuro's. It is also strongly implied that Maetel has a machine body, as she visits her human body on Pluto, where discarded human bodies are encased in ice in a giant planetary tomb. Yet Maetel also says she has been endlessly travelling with young men like Tetsuro. In the manga, she is refered to by one of the characters as "the other universe that I fear!", making the question of who or what she truly is even more nebulous. However, the nature of her character is revealed in the movie as she replaces her body with a new human one to live forever. Characters from other Matsumoto w Source: [wikipedia: galaxy express 999] |
titles:anime
| Endless Orbit 999 | ||
| information about the creator, leiji matsumoto. | ||
alebrije.info : alebrijes : sites : advertising : link to us : contact
• Newsgroups
japan.anime.galaxy-express-999
• Fuzzy search
expressional funk songs
galactic
galactica 1980
galactus
galapagos islands
galatians
galaxie 500
galaxy clusters
• Specialized stores
Amazon.com (US)
Amazon.ca (CA)
Amazon.co.uk (UK)
• Specialized search
Discovery.com
Exploratorium
TutorialFind
• General crawlers
All the Web
AltaVista
Google
Lycos
Mamma
Msn
Overture
Teoma
WiseNut