Galaxy Express 999: Season 1

Tetsuro Hoshino's life changes forever: his mother is murdered, and he is rescued and taken on board the Galaxy Express 999 by the mysterious woman Maetel.

On the planet Mars, Tetsuro is accosted by the bandit Geronimo, who wants his pass to the Express.

On the planet Titan, Maetel is captured by machine men. Meanwhile, Tetsuro befriends Crystal Clare, a waitress on the 999 whose body is made of glass.

The great bandit Antares comes on board the 999 and takes Tetsuro hostage to get back to his home.

The planet Pluto is a graveyard for the human bodies people sacrificed to become machine men. Its machine caretaker, Shadow, desires Tetsuro to find and retrieve her own human body.

The 999 arrives at the Comet Library, the location of every book published and recorded.

The 999 encounters the remains of the missing Express 333, and its surviving passenger, Ryuzu... who killed off everyone aboard.

Ryuzu takes Tetsuro hostage, and tells him her story of tragedy and abandonment.

The planet Trader is a junction for Galaxy Expresses. There Tetsuro meets and befriends Hanako, a destitute young girl.

Hanako takes Tetsuro to the planet Wildflower, where her parents reside. She tells them Tetsuro is her fiancé, soon to be married... something he doesn't know about.

The planet Nuruba is inhabited by eternal, shape-shifting formless blobs. Two of them kidnap Tetsuro and Maetel and impersonate them to get on the 999.

The 999 arrives on a planet beset by a petrification cloud, a phenomenon that turns everything living to stone. The only survivor is a warrior, who kidnaps Tetsuro to try and get on the train.

Raiders come to the planet, whose petrified people are unable to fight back. Tetsuro and Maetel join forces with the warrior to protect his world.

The Dual Planets is a world populated by machine people. One of them, Lala, kidnaps Tetsuro so that she can have his body.

On a dark foggy planet, its resident the Black Knight pursues Tetsuro to have his companionship, by hook or crook.

The latest planet the 999 visits is populated by people who can glow in the dark. An animator named Freiya, an outcast who cannot glow, is befriended by Tetsuro.

The 999 arrives on a planet where every single organism has been encased in armour to make it strong.

On a mud planet, Tetsuro encounters a woman made of mud named Maetel, who wants to come on board the 999.

The 999 takes a rest stop aboard the planet Confession, a planet said to be free of evils. Unfortunately, when a crime is discovered, the planet committee wishes to silence its witnesses.

The 999 arrives at a planet full of professional experts, one of whom kidnaps Tetsuro to train him in his skills.

As the 999 travels through a planet full of leaves, Tetsuro meets and befriends an artist with a wooden body.

The 999 is attacked by the space pirate queen Emeraldas.

The Battle-Torn planet is a world divided in half, between advanced and primitive beings. The primitives want Maetel to be their queen, and Tetsuro to be their sacrifice.

The 999 encounters a planet that can travel through dimensions. Its ruler, Egoterina, is mentally unstable and captures Tetsuro, Maetel and the Conductor.

On a heavily industrial world, the freedom fighter Clowmaria is trying to halt industry for the sake of conservation. As a fugitive, she seeks escape on the 999.

On a world of skeletons, Tetsuro meets Horohoro, a poor skeleton who has very little bones in his body.

At the Snow Capital, Tetsuro gives food to a poor slum girl. He is later kidnapped by her mother to be made into food to feed her daughter.

On the planet Mirage, an old lonely writer steals Tetsuro's pass and tries to board the 999.

Sakezan, the ruler of a jungle world, captures Maetel to make her his slave.

The planet Filament is inhabited by phantoms. One of them wants her son to possess Tetsuro so that he can get a mechanical body.

The 999 arrives at a planet where people are passionate and don't hide their emotions.

A fellow passenger, Edmund, discovers his homeworld is completely ruined due to the government selling off its bits of land.

On the planet Ulatores, the 999 has a breakdown. Consequently, Tetsuro is kidnapped by a machine woman who wants to be his surrogate mother.

The 999 arrives on a world where a machine woman plates everything - including living organisms - in gold. A young boy wants this treatment to be accepted by his golden girlfriend.

Tetsuro joins a band of revolutionaries intent on stopping the machine woman.

The 999 arrives at a colony of artificial humans, led by its lonely creator Dr Cyclops.

The 999 arrives at Mikun's Mansion of Life, a world inhabited by the spirits of beloved and devoted pets.

The 999 arrives the Empire of the Cowardly Elder Delmukade, a ruler who assassinated everyone in the kingdom to stay ruler... and who wants Tetsuro's body.

The 999 arrives at a planet of beautiful but flimsy people. Despite their weakness, a couple tries to get aboard.

At a spherical housing complex, Maetel is captured by the complex's chieftain and Tetsuro goes to save her.

Tetsuro is captured by the Chieftain of the complex.

The 999 arrives at the Visage of Memories, the Conductor's homeworld. He encounters his old lover, who has changed for the worse since he left on the 999.

The 999 arrives at the planet Arashigaoka. An ailing father steals Tetsuro's pass to leave his son Kira behind, not wanting to be a burden to him.

At Deadwood Mountain, Prider the singer boards the 999 to become famous. The 999 is attacked by the Valkyries, a trio of witches.

The 999's passengers are captured and brought before the head Valkyrie, whose daughters were killed by mechanical people.

A passenger forces the 999 to go to his planet, El Alamein, a desert planet filled with war machines.

The 999 arrives at Rifle Grenade, a planet that makes its slaves fight each other for sport. One of the slaves, Zeda, manages to escape.

Zeda unites the slaves in a bid for freedom.

The 999 arrives on a planet filled with kind, hardworking people.

The 999 arrives at the Ghost Tunnel, an artificial black hole. Its owner, Eroze, demands Tetsuro's companionship.

The 999 is entrapped within a giant sentient alien blob. They later encounter its daughter, a machine woman named Artemis.

Artemis tells the sad story of how her quest for a mechanical body consumed her life.

On an alternate Earth, Tetsuro encounters Manabu, a mirror version of himself, who wants to board the 999.

The world of Endless Summer is inhabited by insectoid humans. They capture Tetsuro and Maetel to make into a meal, and later spin a cocoon around the 999.

The cocoon breaks open to reveal baby creatures, which invade the 999.

The 999 arrives on a planet inhabited by savage cavemen and intelligent dinosaurs. A friendly dinosaur named Tiny tries to board the 999.

Tiny rescues Tetsuro and Maetel when they are captured by the cave people.

At the world of Footsteps Village, Tetsuro encounters a ghost with a comic strip.

The Idle One's Mirror is a world full of lazy fat people who use machines continuously. One of them tries to leave for a new, non-machine world.

The 999 lands in complete secrecy at the Tomorrow Planet, whose inhabitants have no knowledge of space travel. One of them learns of the train and steals Tetsuro's pass.

Stranded on the Tomorrow Planet, Tetsuro gets a job to look after himself and Maetel.

At the City of Night, a dangerous dinosaur named Heron lives in a nearby lake. Tetsuro discovers the animal is in fact friendly, but will he be believed?

The 999 arrives at the Pitch Dark Planet, a world that is about to experience its first ever artificial sun... which will doom it, unless Tetsuro can stop it.

The 999 arrives at the Planet of Silence, a quiet world where everyone speaks softly and listens with special devices... the better to snoop around on each other.

The 999 arrives at a planet where the people are starving because their Queen orders all food to be brought to her. But there is a dark, tragic secret behind her appetite...

The 999 arrives at the Funeral Planet, populated by a race of bored immortals who started killing each other and having funerals, as entertainment.

The 999 takes on some new passengers: Maria and Mikhail from the criminal asteroid 333, and the space monk Dairuz who has a powerful sonic bell.

The 999 passes by a sentient planet, whose curiosity is insatiable and demands to see the train's passengers without their clothes on.

The C62 locomotive that pulls the 999 threatens to disconnect and power ahead on its own. At the same time, news is received of two dangerous robbers aboard the train.

The 999 stops at the City of Flowers, a world with beautiful but poisonous flowers whose destroyers are nevertheless executed.

The 999 arrives at the River of Purgatory, a barren region under progress to become fertile. A son wants to leave the world, but can he leave his father behind to do all the work?

The 999 enters the Great Dark Nebula Africa. At the world of Kilimanjaro, a race known as the Ghost Hoppers captures the train.

The Ghost Hoppers prepare to experiment on their captives.

The 999 arrives at the Gimme Planet, a world where everybody is a beggar. Two bandits however rebel against this way of life and attempt to escape on the train.

The 999 arrives at an aquatic planet whose resources are nearly exhausted. A civil war starts on the planet and Tetsuro and Maetel are taken hostage.

The 999 is attacked by bandits when it is forced to take off.

At the world of Rainy Pond, Tetsuro gets lost in a flood and encounters Cueflame, a witch who devours life to stay alive.

Cueflame orders her slaves to capture Tetsuro... but one has reached breaking point with her master.

The 999 arrives at the world of Heavy Melder, home of the famed Time Castle. Tetsuro encounters the space pirate Captain Harlock.

Tetsuro witnesses a battle between Maetel and Captain Harlock, and is thrown back in time.

Tetsuro and Maetel escape Time Castle.

On the world of Butterfly's Dream, where the denizens are beautiful and live incredibly short lives, a love triangle occurs.

When two warring worlds are destroyed, what is left of their races escape for another world. Can they manage to get along?

The 999 arrives at the planet of the Great Elephant, where they encounter explorer JF Stanley and a giant elephant.

On the Planet of Illusive Love, Tetsuro encounters a story of unrequited love.

The 999 arrives at the Planet of Forgotten Parents, where Tetsuro is mistaken for an innkeeper's son. Then the real son, a fugitive slave, appears.

On the God-Given planet, the Brittenian soldier Nasuka falls in love with the sea maid Elsa.

The 999 arrives at the Crossroads of Destiny, where a small blue planet is populated by a survivalist society about to become extinct.

On the Hangman's Planet of cowboys, a feud starts between the White and Black gangs over a gold mine. Tetsuro ends up in the Blacks, and his new friend Wester joins the Whites.

The 999 arrives at the ice planet Snowica. Tetsuro encounters the famous ramen cook Tsuru, and the fearsome Snow Woman whose freezing spree is forcing people to mechanical bodies.

The Snow Woman tells Tetsuro the tragic story of her unfulfilled desire to eat warm ramen, and her unspoken love for Tsuru.

On the planet of Rainbow Sash, an underwater colony is about to be wiped out by an earthquake.

The 999 arrives on the Insect Planet, inhabited by insectoid people and human colonies. Recently, there has been a spate of human murders...

Yaryabol welcomes Maetel and Tetsuro to his strangely miniature world, but he and his mother have a sinister agenda in mind...

Tetsuro rescues Maetel from Yaryabol, and they discover a horrible truth about his mother.

The 999 arrives on a planet whose government is at war with a band of robotic cats.

All the cats stage a rebellion. Tetsuro encounters Flying Kuro, the flying cat.

An elderly couple spend their last years writing a book about the end of their planet.

Tetsuro discovers an elevator that takes him to the fourth dimension.

The 999 passes through a loose zone where everyone becomes lazy and irresponsible. Tetsuro ends up stranded on a garbage planet, but everyone is too loose to search for him.

Tetsuro and Maetel meet an aspiring artist. His sister steals their passes for him, but he is thrown in jail for the crime

On a planet of humanoid bees and hornets, a civil war breaks out.

The 999 arrives at the desert planet of Ali Baba. Its queen, Ali Baba, takes Maetel hostage, and a giant roc attacks Tetsuro.

A showdown between Ali Baba and Maetel ensues, amidst a giant roc attack.

Tetsuro gets caught up in a battle between mechanical man and children.

The 999 arrives at Ghost Station 13, and discovers it is a giant sentient phantom who wants some playmates for his sister.

The 999 arrives at the planet of Kilimanjaro2, where a dogfight between two squadrons is rapidly escalating.

The 999 arrives at the planet of Macaroni Au Gratin, a food-shaped planet. Its inhabitants, two mechanical brothers, kidnap Tetsuro and Maetel and steal their passes.

The 999 enters warp space, and encounters a parallel version of itself. Tetsuro encounters his parallel, Redril Hammer, who is traveling to get a mechanical body.

Both trains encounter a race of aliens, beings from a universe where aliens are treated mercilessly by humanity.

The 999 arrives at the Bat Planet, where Tetsuro meets a young man who wants a mechanical body to be strong and tough.

The 999 finally arrives at Prometheum, the planet factory of machine bodies. But as Tetsuro makes his final decision, he learns a startling truth about Maetel.

Maetel and Tetsuro take on Queen Prometheum in the battle for humanity.