History Manga / GalaxyExpress999

-->'''Tetsuro''': My name is Tetsuro Oshino and you killed my mother, you metal bastard!

->''"...I keep expecting some DoctorZhivago-lookin' shiksa to scoop me onto a train for an endless, Oedipal journey through the cosmos."''

* [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY]]: "Three-nine", not "nine-nine-nine".

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: "Three-nine", not "nine-nine-nine".

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: "Three-nine", not "nine-nine-nine".

* ItsPronouncedTropay: "Three-nine", not "nine-nine-nine".

** Maetel's a pretty complicated one. Because of the [[JapaneseRanguage L/R ambiguity in Japanese]] it can be interpreted as either coming from the Latin word for mother, or the English word metal (or possibly the Mattel toy company) [[spoiler:both of which hint at her artificial nature]].

* [[YouKilledMyFather You killed my mother, and hung her on your wall!]] - Tetsuro, during the first movie/arc to Count Mecha. His speech to the count could easily be translated into the full version.

* [YouKilledMyFather You killed my mother, and hung her on your wall!] - Tetsuro, during the first movie/arc to Count Mecha. His speech to the count could easily be translated into the full version.

** Or CoolShip, depending on whether you view the 999 as a space-going train or a train-like spaceship. Exceedingly cool, either way.

* CompleteMonster - The ruler of one world lives there all alone. Everyone else has either been executed for "treason" or has just run away. He's that paranoid.

* FetishFuel

S'more Entertainment, a new startup, has announced that they will release the Galaxy Express 999 tv series as a sub-only DVD release in North America.

Another series in the {{Leijiverse}}, [[{{TheGalaxyRailways}} The Galaxy Railways]], further explores the trains-as-spaceships theme, but isn't really interwoven into the Galaxy Express continuity. Galaxy Express features cameos from [[SpaceCruiserYamato a]] [[QueenMillennia few]] [[CaptainHarlock other]] Leijiverse characters.

* {{Flashbkac}} - Tetsuro remembers life with his mother from time to time, along with her death.

Originally serialized in Hit Comics from 1977 to 1981, ''Galaxy Express 999'' is part of [[LeijiVerse Leiji Matsumoto's larger universe]]. The story centers on Tetsuro, an orphaned street urchin who dreams of catching a ride on the titular space-train in search of a mechanized body and eternal life. He gets his chance when a mysterious woman named Maetel offers him a ticket - if he will travel with her along the way.

To date, only the first two movies, a portion of the second manga series and ''Maetel Legend'' have had a widespread release in the U.S./Region 1. (The TV series was subtitled by Nippon Golden Network and available in areas of the US with a high ethnic Japanese population.) A...somewhat [[{{Macekre}} liberal]] translation of the first movie was released in 1981, but we aren't going to talk about that. The translation work since then has been considerably more faithful to the source and (big surprise) much more enjoyable for it. Funimation is currently streaming a subtitled release of [[http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=279 the entire original 1979 TV series]].

* AdaptationDistillation: The 1979 movie.

-->- '''[[ExcelSaga Koshi Rikdo]] ([[{{Woolseyism}} via Carl Horn]])''', on ''Galaxy Express''.

* WagonTrainToTheStars: literally.