galaxy railways

[Anonymous]

i know most people are adults on this forums but i was watching tv the other day can across a cartoon that has to do with trains (p.s. there all steam or streamliner engine, except for the train the people use on the show to get from planet to planet) it's a show about this 18 years old boy who join the galaxy railways like his older brother and father (who were kill in action).the galaxy railway is a space defense group that try to stop terrorists form trying to destory the space railways. form what could understand. go to www.galaxy-railways.com if you want more info about the show.

the channel it comes on is color tv, if you use dish it's channel 9407 at 11:00 p.m, but you have a different tv co. i can't help you on the channel sorry,but you should be able find out at the website.

the ranking in my opinion for this show, form 1 to 10. I give it a 10

[TrainFreak409]

Hmm...I might have to buy the first DVD and check it out since I don't have Dish, and don't get many anime channels. But it does look cool; and I do watch anime. The trains look pretty awesome if you ask me.

[vsmith]

This is a new version of  Leiji Matsumoto's "Galaxy Express 999" from the 70's and 80's.  Where the "train" is actually a spaceship built to look like a train as a nostolgic rememberance of the days of humanities past. I've seen "Galaxy Railways" but to me it lacks so much of a the angst of the original series I didnt care for it. The original series focused a great deal on what is Humanity, as it was a universe where one could obtain a perfect machine body and essentialy live forever, but the cost of that machine body was the inevitable loss of what makes one human in the first place, emotions, caring, love, one's soul. Its a universe of machine people where those still humans could find themselves on the end of a hunters rifle. The train comes to represent to the machine universe a sad nostalgic rememberance of a lost time before the machines took over and all were human, those who ride it see it as a last link to their lost humanity. However, it was only a backdrop to the main characters story, thats what made it so strong a series.

 

Do a websearch of Galaxy Express 999,  Leiji Matsumoto, for more info or go to YouTube.com which has several GE999 clips. 999 is currently only on VHS, and for whatever reason hasnt been issued on DVD yet.