Watch Galaxy Express 999 Online

Galaxy Express 999 is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality. The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981. The number "999" in the title is pronounced "Three-Nine," as opposed to "Nine-Nine-Nine," "Nine Ninety-Nine" or "Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine." Matsumoto was inspired to create Galaxy Express 999 by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa. Read More

Watch Galaxy Express 999 online. Featuring Masako Nozawa and Masako Ikeda, Galaxy Express 999 has 1 seasons and 113 episodes in total. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 5 services such as Amazon Video and Crunchyroll. It is classified as Animation and Action & Adventure genre series and the average rating across the web is 8.3. The TV series was filmed in Japan and was first aired on 1978. Read Less