Genres: adventure, drama, science fiction Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Number of episodes: 113 Vintage: 1978-09-14 to 1981-04-09 ANN Info Page
Series currently up at CrunchyRoll and a few other sites.
First two Movies coming from Discotek in June,2011.
Watching this show again would likely drive me insane, but I did like it, I do want to support it, but 113 episodes is a lot of episodes. Plus, if I buy this does that mean more Matsumoto stuff could come? A lot of stuff to consider with this license.
So since I donât feel like making a new thread for it.
The first Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo collection is missing for the Japanese track the English subtitles. Not a good start for their first Anime. Though I hear the packaging is nice. 4 disc with 2 cases and 2 disc in each in a cardboard sleeve. Hopefully itâs a simple and easy to fix error. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo seems to always have issues with subtitles.
Hopefully Galaxy Express 999 TV comes out better. Cause if it does not have subtitles we got issues.
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Offering our apoplogiesâŚthere was no intent to mis-lead the fans. There was a mis-communication internally and even though at least 10 people proofed the packaging, the fact the packaging incorrectly said âsub-titledâ was missed by everyone, incluiding byTOEI. As best as I understand, the series was only available in Japanese language or dubbed into English, it was never sub-titled. Galaxy Express 999 will only be available in Japense or sub-titlerd as they never did an English language version (according to TOEI)
What is the point of the Japanese track even being there if they did not subtitle it? Take up already limited disc space?
You could try the two compilation movies if you donât want to sit through the whole series. Anything by Leiji Matsumoto is an acquired taste though. I donât blame anyone for not being able to stand them.
It is run by former Rhino people like Shout Factory but at least in Shout Factories case they learned from Rhinoâs mistakes. It seems the Smores people did not. Which makes me think they were the people that made the mistakes in the first place. If theyâd just looked around Iâm sure they could have found some former fansubber whoâd done it for a quite reasonable price. It sounds more to me like this is pure laziness and as was common with Rhino they placed the blame on someone else. In this case Toei for not having subtitles and not wanting to pay for them to be done. The deal for the episode count is still a deal in a way but Iâm going to be passing on this and hope they at least get Galaxy Express 999 TV right. At this point I think weâd been better off with Mill Creek and thatâs not saying much.
Amazon will probably remove or put a investigation thing up soon.
