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Tekkonkinkreet (Japanese: 鉄コン筋クリート, Hepburn: Tekkonkinkurīto), [a] also known as Black & White, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto, originally serialized from 1993 to 1994 in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits.
Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道 999 (スリーナイン), Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain) is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto , later adapted into a number of anime films and television series.
This is a list of episodes for the Japanese anime television series, Galaxy Express 999, which aired 113 episodes from 14 September 1978 to 28 March 1981.The television series was based on the manga series created by Leiji Matsumoto.
The Galaxy Railways (銀河鉄道物語, Ginga Tetsudō Monogatari) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Galaxy Express 999, and is about flying trains set in the far reaches of outer space. It began airing on October 4, 2003. Funimation licensed the anime for
Leiji Matsumoto was born on January 25, 1938, in Kurume, Fukuoka. [6] He was the middle child of a family of seven brothers, and, in his early childhood, Matsumoto was given a 35mm film projector by his father, and watched American cartoons during the Pacific War.
Yasuhiro Nightow (内藤 泰弘, Naitō Yasuhiro, born April 8, 1967, in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. [1] His major work Trigun was adapted into an anime series and film. He also designed the characters for the video game and anime series Gungrave, and has been working on the manga Blood Blockade Battlefront.
999 features nine main characters, who are forced to participate in the Nonary Game by an unknown person code-named Zero. [2] For the majority of the game, the characters adopt code names to protect their identities due to the stakes of the Nonary Game—most of their names are ultimately revealed over the course of the game, and for several their true identities are important to the plot. [10]
Galaxy Express 999 was released in Japan on August 4, 1979 where it was distributed by Toei Company. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was the highest grossing film of 1979 in Japan. [ 6 ] The film was picked up for distribution in the United States by Roger Corman 's New World Pictures in 1980 but was shelved until 1982 after test bookings. [ 7 ]