The Best Episodes of Galaxy Express 999 Season 1

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8.2/10(23 votes)
#1 - The Story of Endless Summer - Part 2
S1:E5511/29/1979
The insect babies hatch and when Tetsuro finds himself unable to kill them, they climb aboard the 999 and start eating it.
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7.4/10(17 votes)
#2 - Illusion of Youth(Part One)
S1:E1123/19/1981
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7.4/10(20 votes)
#3 - Illusion of Youth(Part Two)
S1:E1133/26/1981
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7.3/10(18 votes)
#4 - The Fog of Funeral Planet
S1:E662/21/1980
As the 999 touched down on the Funeral Planet, its arrival (and whistle) disturbed a funeral procession, who decided to bury Maetel and Tetsuro alive as punishment, with the proper pomp and circumstance. They were rescued by Machiru, a woman responsible for ringing the funeral bell. She explained that the inhabitants on the planet were immortal, so killing for funerals became a past time when they witnessed one over 120 years ago, when a couple crash landed on the planet. The bell stopped ringing, and Machiru was killed by the procession as a result. Maetel and Tetsuro came across the procession and stunned them all. Maetel explained to Testuro that funerals would be given to them when they stopped moving, whether they were still alive or not.
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7.2/10(36 votes)
#5 - The Resting Warriors on Titan
S1:E39/28/1978
Tetsuro meets Crystal Claire, a waitress on the 999 that is made entirely of glass. Claire's body was forced upon her by her mother and she is seeking to buy back her original body. Tetsuro finds his mother alive again on the train, but it is actually a monster that tries to pull him out of the train with it.The 999 arrives on the planet Titan, where Maetal is captured by machine men.
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Writer:Yoshiaki Yoshida
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7.1/10(39 votes)
#6 - The Red Winds of Mars
S1:E29/21/1978
The 999's first stop is the planet Mars, a desolate planet where few live. When Tetsuro is provided a tour by a young woman, Freme, her boyfriend Geronimo shoots Tetsuro and steals his 999 pass.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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7.1/10(33 votes)
#7 - Shadow, of the Planet of Delusion
S1:E510/12/1978
The 999 travels to Pluto, where the frozen human bodies of the machine people have been laid to rest. Tetsuro meets Shadow, the machine woman who is caretaker of the graves. Shadow shows him her frozen human body, a body so beautiful that she refused to have a face on her machine body since it couldn't compare to her human face. Shadow tries to capture Tetsuro to regain her human body, but Maetel saves him.
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7.1/10(15 votes)
#8 - The Steel Angel
S1:E253/8/1979
Tetsuro meets Clowmaria, a freedom fighter on a heavily industrialized world that is trying to get the people of her planet to change their ways.
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7.1/10(17 votes)
#9 - The Laboratory of Eternal War - Part 2
S1:E489/27/1979
At gunpoint (from the previous episode), Tetsuro told Zeda of his struggles back on Earth. Zeda was instead moved and decided to joined the rebels. With his companions Santana and Brudas, Zeda managed to unite the two soldier factions and started to attack government facilities.
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7.1/10(17 votes)
#10 - The Pirate of Time Castle(Part Three)
S1:E817/17/1980
Tetsuro is sent into the past. There, against all of Tetsuro's efforts, his mother his killed just as before. Tetsuro realizes that he cannot alter the past. But then through Leryuz's ability to manipulate time, he is brought back to the present. While this is going on, we find out what kind of a horrible man the fake Harlock is in his duel with Maetel. He used to fight to restore peace to the galaxy, just like Maetel. But, he betrayed his people, including Maetel, and disrupted their attempt at a revolution.
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7.1/10(15 votes)
#11 - Insect Planet Keiko
S1:E9310/30/1980
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Director:Katsumi Minoguchi
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7.0/10(46 votes)
#12 - Ballad of Departure
S1:E19/14/1978
Tetsuro's mother is murdered while the two of them travel through the snow by the villainous Count Mecha. Before she dies, Tetsuro's mother tells him to go to the planet Andromeda where he can get a machine body and not die like she did. Tetsuro passes out from the cold but is rescued by the mysterious Maetal, who gives him a pass to the Galaxy Express 999 for free under the condition that he will travel with her.
Director:Nobutaka Nishizawa
Writer:Hiroyasu Yamaura
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7.0/10(24 votes)
#13 - The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity - Part 1
S1:E710/26/1978
The 999 falls into the Sargasso, where they find the remains of the 333, a missing train. Traveling aboard, Tetsuro, Maetel and the Conductor find only skeletons. A woman aboard the train, Ryuzu, reveals herself, saying that she sped up time on the train which killed everyone. Through her threats, she takes a hold of Tetsuro and departs the train's remains with him.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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6.9/10(17 votes)
#14 - Artemis of the Transparent Sea - Part 1
S1:E5111/1/1979
As the 999 approaches its next destination, a large number of small blue blobs start passing by the 999, warning it to not go any further. Eventually the 999 gets stuck in a larger version of these blobs, which apparantely is their mother. The Galaxy Railways headquarters gets ready to blow it up so the 999 can go on, but all of a sudden a ship crashes into the blob.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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6.8/10(23 votes)
#15 - Trader's Junction - Part 2
S1:E1011/16/1978
Hanako brought the still asleep Tetsuro to a neighboring planet aptly called Wildflower. They traveled to her home, and were greeted by her aging mother and ailing father. Without Tetsuro's knowledge (or consent), Hanako feigned their upcoming marriage, for which Hanako's parents were eager to prepare a banquet.
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Writer:Yoshiaki Yoshida
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6.8/10(14 votes)
#16 - The Fossilized Warrior - Part 1
S1:E1211/30/1978
The 999 arrives on a planet where the entire populace except for one person have been turned to stone by a petrification cloud. The one person still alive, a warrior, attacks Tetsuro and steals his pass, hoping to use it to escape and find a cure for his lover, who was turned to stone.
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6.8/10(19 votes)
#17 - The Street of Fireflies
S1:E1612/28/1978
On their latest planet, Tetsuro meets Freiya, a poor girl who appears beautiful to him but is considered ugly and deformed by the other inhabitants of her planet because she does not glow in the dark with a uniform light. Freiya is an amateur animator who hopes to become a director someday.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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6.7/10(24 votes)
#18 - The Comet Library
S1:E610/19/1978
The 999 arrives at the Comet Library, where all the books published are located. There, a pair of men capture Tetsuro and try to force him into having a machine body.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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6.7/10(14 votes)
#19 - The Broken Planet in the Time Ceased Dimension
S1:E324/26/1979
Tetsuro meets Edmund, a fellow passenger on the 999 who is looking forward to returning to his homeworld on their next stop. When they arrive however the planet is completely ravaged.
Director:Katsumi Minoguchi
Writer:Yoshiaki Yoshida
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6.7/10(14 votes)
#20 - Ulatores's Mountain of Screws
S1:E335/3/1979
The 999 arrives on the planet Ulatorus, which contains mountains of screws. When a storm causes one of the mountains to collapse, Tetsuro loses his pass and meets a machine woman who kidnaps him, seeking to keep him in her home permanently. At the same time, the 999 malfunctions due to a faulty screw.
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6.7/10(16 votes)
#21 - Kira of Windy Hill
S1:E438/16/1979
The 999 arrives on the planet Arashigaoka (lit.: Windy Hill) where a sickly father and son, Kira operate a shoe repair store. Tetsuro's pass is stolen by the father, who seeks to get on the 999 and leave the planet so he won't be a burden to Kira. Kira forces him to return it at gunpoint, who wants to obtain a pass for him legitimately.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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6.7/10(16 votes)
#22 - The Laboratory of Eternal War - Part 1
S1:E479/20/1979
The 999 landed on a planet called "Rifle Grenade", where slaves were brought in to fight a perpetual war between two factions as spectator sport. One of the slave soldiers, Zeda, escaped and found refuge in the hotel room of Maetel and Tetsuro.
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6.7/10(14 votes)
#23 - The Sisters of the Pitch Dark Planet
S1:E631/31/1980
The 999 stops at the Pitch Dark Planet, where all light is instantly absorbed. A while after Maetel leaves the train to "attend to private business", Tetsuro is beckoned outside by a figure at his window, who proves to be Miru, a daughter of the planet's ruler. She and her father tell him that Maetel has been kidnapped by Miru's sister Lelan, a deranged but brilliant scientist who plans to use Maetel's brain to launch an artificial sun into orbit, and that Maetel will die unless Tetsuro can infiltrate Lelan's base and kill her. Further, the new sun will doom most of the life on their world, which has never had light in its entire natural history. Tetsuro goes back for his gun, but is taken prisoner by Lelan the instant he steps off the train. His efforts to escape prove futile and Lelan launches the sun. Miru, horribly burned, staggers into the base and tries to shut the sun off but is shot by her sister. Maetel accosts Lelan and accuses her of genocide but she retorts that sacrifices must be made for the greater good. She runs out into the sunlight and is burned to death. As the train leaves, the Conductor reports that 99.99% of the planet's population has perished.
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6.7/10(15 votes)
#24 - Loose Zone Spector
S1:E10012/18/1980
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6.6/10(29 votes)
#25 - The Great Bandit Antares
S1:E410/5/1978
The bandit Antares sneaks aboard the 999 and starts stealing and killing people aboard. He meets Tetsuro and Maetel and forces the 999 to travel to his home by holding Tetsuro at gunpoint.
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Writer:Keisuke Fujikawa
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