They call it a "classic" for a reason, you know.

Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and terminating at Andromeda on the other.
But the Galaxy Express is more than just a train--- it's also a metaphor for life itself, with passengers constantly boarding, debarking, and dreaming along the way.
Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother at the hands of the villainous Count Mecha.
But in a future where life is too cheap and cruelty too easy, nothing is ever really free, and along with meeting larger-than-life figures such as the diminutive Tochiro Oyama(gnius engineer of the great space ship Arcadia), famous space pirate Captain Harlock, or infamous female space trader Emeraldas, Tetsuro is about to learn the true price not only for boarding the GE999 and avenging his mather, but for leaving his childhood behind, for falling in love...and for becoming a man.

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Glaxy Express 999 is the name of a train whichi travels through space, beginning on one end of the gakaxy at Megalopolis Statin and terminating on the other at Andoromeda. But the Galaxy Express is more than a train---it's also a metaphor for life itself, with passengers constantly boarding, debarking, and dreaming along the way.

Tetsuro Hoshino was once a boy willing to give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel to the other side of the galaxy, if only to fulfill a vow to avenge the cruel death of his mother at the hands of the villainess Count Mecha.

Now, two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering full-length theatrical conclusion to creator Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey the destination of which is unknown even to Galaxy Express Railways locomotive C6248 itself… a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear speak of it.

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