Specific Examples: Galaxy Express 999
Material presented at MCAD's 2001 "Girls and Mobilesuits" Anime Seminar. All images are properties of their respective artist, publisher, or distributor, and used for academic purposes only.
Leiji Matsumoto. (around 1981). Ginga Tetsudo 999 (Galaxy Express 999). Hit Comics (Shonen Gahousah), reissued by Big Comics Gold (Shogakukan).
Leiji Matsumoto's original Galaxy Express 999 manga series was at its
height around 1980.
- Familiar (and conveniently "romantic") steam-locomotive travel
- Unfamiliar (but spectacular) starscapes
- Stories that focus on the power of dreams
- Emphasis on courage, friendship, hope, and justice
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