Sayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki

Despite the destruction of the mechanization home world Andromeda, the machine empire is still swept across the galaxy and Earth has become a battleground. Having returned from his journey aboard the train Galaxy Express 999, Tetsurou Hoshino joins the resistance and fights alongside others who have retained their humanity.

When the 999 returns to Earth, Tetsurou receives an enigmatic recorded message from his former traveling companion Maetel, telling him to board the train once more. Fighting his way to Megalopolis station, he makes it onto the train just as it departs. This time, however, Tetsurou is met with several mysteries: Maetel is nowhere to be seen, an ominous "Ghost Train" has appeared, and the ultimate destination of the 999 is unknown. Amid all this, Tetsurou finds himself confronted by the mysterious black knight Faust and soon discovers the machine empire's darkest secret.

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The movie won the 1981 Animage's Anime Grand Prix Award.

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Prequel:	Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie)
Sequel:	Ginga Tetsudou 999: Eternal Fantasy

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Maetel

Main

Ikeda, Masako
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Hoshino, Tetsurou

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Captain Herlock

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Inoue, Makio
Japanese

Emeraldas

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Tajima, Reiko
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Miime

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Ohara, Noriko
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Kinomiya, Ryouko
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The Conductor

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Kimotsuki, Kaneta
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Yuki, Kei

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Kawashima, Chiyoko
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Meowdar

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Tomiyama, Kei
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Faust

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Emori, Toru
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Rintarou

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Yamaura, Hiroyasu

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Matsumoto, Leiji

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Kanada, Yoshinori

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"Sayonara" by Mary MacGregor

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"Sayonara" by Mary MacGregor

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Sep 3, 2012

barcaman101

Recommended

A truly enjoyable classic and a fitting sequel to the first movie. Adieu Galaxy Express 999 continues from the original movie,showing the conflict between the mechanized people and the human race.After the first movie with maetel and tetsuro having destroyed the planet andromeda/planet meatel, the conflict between the robotic empire and the human race has increased to even greater heights .The robot forces are destroying anyone who oppose the ideal of immortality through robotic bodies and tetsuro for the last two years have been fighting on earth just to stay alive.

After receiving an invitation from maetel to board the 999,tetsuro and maetel ...

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Dec 29, 2017

tomateunmate

Mixed Feelings

A couple of vague spoilers that will help you deal with this: Tetsuro does nothing to change anything. Just like the previous movie, 999 is compacted to be a Harlock spin off more than it's own thing.

The strongest element in this movie is Rintaro's direction, and if we judged only by visuals this would easily be an 8/10 or above. But as a stand alone story and part of the 999 franchise it's pretty atrocious.

As I mentioned before it makes the same weird decision from the previous movie of taking out everything that 999 had besides character designs. Between 2 movies we get none of ...

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Jan 3, 2023

Squallog

Not Recommended

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Lots of exposition with no character development, that brings nothing of value to the story or plot.

The only Galaxy Express media I had watched prior to this was the 1979 film. As a sequel this film falls flat on its face; it felt like little more than a watered down repeat of the original plot only devoid of the character development and storytelling the sequel has.
For 2 hours you have to sit through Tetsuro wandering around with intermittent breaks so that an already established character can show up and deliver some exposition before disappearing to an optimistic soundtrack that thinks you are far more emotionally ...

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