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Galaxy Express 999

by Leiji Matsumoto · first published 1998

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.

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Original language:
Japanese
Year page:
1998

Screen Adaptations

  1. 1979 · Film
  2. 1981 · Film

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