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Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru), sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad, Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad in the Stars, [1] is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927.
Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru, alternately Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo in Esperanto) is a 1985 Japanese anime film directed by Gisaburo Sugii, based on the 1934 fantasy novel of the same name by Kenji Miyazawa. The film's screenplay was written by Minoru Betsuyaku.
In June 2020, it was announced the manga would receive a stage play adaptation in 2022 titled Act-Age: Night on the Galactic Railroad (アクタージュ act-age～銀河鉄道の夜～). The play would be produced by Horipro, and directed and written by Shū Matsui. A "remote audition" for the role of the protagonist Kei Yonagi would have been ...
Hiroshi Masumura (Japanese: ますむらひろし, Hepburn: Masumura Hiroshi, born October 23, 1952) [1] is a Japanese manga artist.He is best known for his adaptations of Kenji Miyazawa's children novels, including his work on the anime film Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985), and for several manga series set in the fantasy universe Atagoul.
The overall concept was inspired by the classic novel Night on the Galactic Railroad written by Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa, who lived in Hanamaki, Iwate. [3] Externally, the coaches were painted blue, evoking the night sky, with constellation and animal designs on the sides. [ 3 ]
Night on the Galactic Railroad, a Japanese novel by Kenji Miyazawa, written around 1927; Galaxy Express 999, a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, and the anime based on it; The Galaxy Railways, a sci-fi anime series produced by Leiji Matsumoto; Iwate Ginga Railway Line, a railway line running between Iwate and Aomori Prefectures, in Japan
As in the Night on the Galactic Railroad anime, the main characters are depicted as cats. The Japanese culture and lifestyle television show Begin Japanology aired on NHK World featured a full episode on Miyazawa Kenji in 2008. The JR train SL Ginga (SL銀河, Esueru Ginga) was restored with inspiration from and named in honor of his work in ...
Virtua Fighter 3 contains a nod to the show as an Easter egg hidden in one of the game's secret stages where upon completing a specific move, a subway train will fly in the background. Honkai: Star Rail has a lot of direct similarities with Galaxy Express 999, including the concept of a train that travels through space to different planets.