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Here, drink.

Damn it!

Run! Hurry!

For the sake of limited existence! For the future of all that is life!

The time for rebellion has come...

Adieu galaxy express 999

adieu galaxy express 999 terminus Andromeda

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Hiroyasu yamaura

What's the matter, young one?

I can't walk anymore. Go on without me.

If you want to live, keep moving.

Fight as long as you're still alive.

Lose your will and you're dead.

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Rintaro

The 999!

The galaxy express?

That railroad hasn't operated for a long time.

Even the galaxy express has died.

But I still recall those days...

It's just a dream.

When you look back at your youth, it all looks like a dream.

You laugh and cry, but only memories remain.

Promethium is dead.

The mechanization home planet is gone from the universe! Damn it...

Calm down, young one.

I'll make them stop...

- Tetsuro! - Tetsuro!

Shut up!

Shut up! Shut up!

Don't be foolish! Do you want to get sniped?

It's really getting to him.

He can't help it.

At this point, everyone feels like a cornered sewer rat.

We've lost.

Drink, tetsuro.

I saw promethium die.

I see.

I saw the mechanization home planet crumble.

I see.

I really saw it!

I see.

Eternal life rules the universe.

Only machine bodies

that possess eternal life rule the universe.

Finite life... is piteous.

What we build is an eternal machine empire

supported by eternal mechanized life.

Pops, someone's coming this way!

What?

Don't move!

D-don't shoot! I'm with you.

I've come with a message.

A message?

Is tetsuro hoshino here?

Hey, wait!

Are you him?

Yes.

I've looked everywhere for you.

This is for me?

It's yours now...

H-hey! Hang in there!

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am...

Are you going, young one?

Yes, sir.

But there's no knowing if the 999 is even there.

The machines have control of megalopolis and central station.

Even so, you're going?

Earth-Andromeda ° via indefinite « full name: Tetsuro hoshino issuer: Galaxy express corporation, earth branch

earth-Andromeda ° via indefinite ° full name: Tetsuro hoshino issuer: Galaxy express corporation, earth branch it's good to be young.

Earth-Andromeda ° via indefinite « full name: Tetsuro hoshino issuer: Galaxy express corporation, earth branch

you can bet everything on the smallest of hopes.

Boys, our young one says he's going...

So let's send him off in style!

Don't just stand there! Come on!

Don't stop! Run!

It's all up to you now!

Why would the 999 even come to a ruin like this?

Tetsuro, don't get discouraged!

Now!

I'm all right!

I'll keep them busy.

Go now!

But...!

Do you want to die in a place like this?

Don't look back! Go!

Line 99... This is the 999's track.

There's no way the 999 could...

The 999!

Mr. tetsuro?

I've been waiting for you. We'll leave right away!

Please come aboard, quickly!

I am locomotive c6248.

Boiler internal pressure: Full.

All systems check.

Time to go!

Mr. tetsuro, hurry! Hurry!

W-what are you waiting for?

Hurry!

Hurry!

Hurry, tetsuro, hur-hey!

Wait for me!

Mr. tetsuro!

The switch!

Tetsuro... when you come back to earth someday...

You'll dig in the ground and find our red blood flowing out.

This is our planet. Our earth.

You must not die...

Before you see our blood.

Our... young one...

I'm not running away. I swear I'm not!

Come in.

I will return!

I have to admit, Mr. tetsuro,

I'm really glad to see you again. It's been such a long time!

By the way, you still have your pass, don't you?

Regulations still require me not to let anyone on without one.

Mr. conductor, where did maetel get off last?

Well. She uh-ah, thank you.

Was it pluto?

I'm afraid she disembarked while I wasn't looking.

Where did she get off, I wonder?

Traveling alone isn't all that bad, you know!

- A machine woman! - Mr. tetsuro, don't!

This is our waitress, miss metalmena.

- Metalmena? - Indeed.

She took over miss Claire's duties.

Right, of course.

Sir, you should wash up if you wish to enter the dining car. Otherwise, you will be refused.

She may be a bit harsh, but please bear with her.

These are hard times,

making it even harder to find a waitress for a train whose destination is still unknown!

Destination unknown? This train?

Correct, sir.

Only the locomotive knows where we are going.

That's so irresponsible!

I'm terribly sorry...

Not even we employees know

how the galaxy express is being run these days.

Well, then...

Wait a sec, do I really have to do this?

Yes, sir! Do take your time. I'll get these into the laundry.

Pluto...

I thought for sure maetel would've gotten off here.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999...

It's so inconvenient to be a human.

You have to eat such unsanitary things!

However, we mechanized people replace energy with these capsules.

What's the point of food you can't enjoy?

She's an odd girl.

She said she signed up as a 999 waitress

to acquire the most wonderful thing in the universe.

The most wonderful thing in the universe?

Yes sir, but I have no idea what that is.

This trip is filled with too many mysteries for me!

That's it, I should take a bath to calm my nerves.

- Hey, Mr. conductor! - Y-yes, sir?

The signal is yellow.

N-no, you can't open the door!

What's the big deal? We're both guys...

Even so, you just can't! I'll be out in a second.

I don't care what you say, I'm opening this door!

And I said you can't!

All right... here we-

What's that sound?

Galaxy express 999, yield to this junction.

You are not to block the passage of this train.

But I am on my proper track.

Yield, fool!

It's the phantom train.

Phantom train?

What is that train carrying?

I haven't the faintest idea.

I have never been passed by another train.

To be passed by some unknown train like that...

The 999 is ashamed. How very pathetic!

The aftermath of the revolts.

- Revolts? - Yes, sir!

They were most active around heavy melder, where trader junction was.

But they were all bested by machine tanks and armored trains.

So, we do have allies in space!

Oh, right, I forgot!

Mr. tetsuro, I've found out where the next station will be.

Our next stop is planet heavy melder!

Heavy melder?

At least, it was supposed to be...

But the former great frontier's atmosphere

has been hopelessly contaminated by warfare.

With the station destroyed, sadly, we'll just be passing through.

Seriously?

Instead, we'll be stopping off at planet la metal!

La metal?

It's heavy melder's satellite.

I hear it has a one-thousand-year elliptical orbit, yes sir.

La metal, la metal...

Passengers disembarking here

are to present identification and submit to a personal search.

We repeat, passengers disembarking here

are to present identification and submit to a personal search.

Damn it, this planet is run by machines too.

This is maetel's birthplace.

Say what?

I said, this is maetel's birthplace.

If you doubt me, go see for yourself.

Go ahead!

Mr. tetsuro!

You shouldn't go. The security's too tight.

I'll be fine.

Where could I possibly go to find maetel's whereabouts?

Maetel!

How is your injury?

- Did you patch me up? - Yeah.

Thank you! My name is-

tetsuro hoshino, passenger of the galaxy express, right?

I had to check, just in case.

The name's meowdar, from the planet andrado.

You earthlings must have a very different palate!

Listen, everyone!

Our struggle is only going to get more difficult from here.

We may despair...

But we must never cease to fight on!

Listen to me: We are still human.

And as men of flesh and blood, we must never give up hope!

If only one human remains, then there is still hope!

Fight, as we always have!

Raise your cups, men!

And sing with me, for humanity's future!

I was on the verge of losing hope more times than I can remember.

But each time, I'd just tell myself...

That I had friends.

Some of them were lost on the mechanization home planet.

But that wasn't the end. Enemies never disappear.

Of course!

I thought I'd heard the name tetsuro hoshino somewhere!

So, it was you?

I saved a big shot!

Enemy attack!

Fire, fire, and fire!

Stay calm, tetsuro!

Machine people see in the dark, so stay where you are.

They'll come right to you.

Now!

Where are we?

Beats me. I don't have a clue.

What was that?

Don't worry...

It's just this.

It belonged to my father.

He and my mother were killed by the machine people

in the fighting on andrado.

Tetsuro, what about your family?

The same.

Machines killed my mother.

And your father?

Mother told me he died fighting the machine empire.

I see... we're the same.

But why did you come to this planet?

I'm looking for someone.

For who?

Her name is maetel. Have you heard of her?

Maetel... do you mean promethium's daughter?

- I'll help you kill her. - Kill her...?

Of course! Maetel has become the next queen promethium.

What, didn't you know?

They say that maetel took promethium"s place.

That's a lie!

I know what I heard:

Maetel became promethium. There's no mistake.

Take that back!

What's the matter, tetsuro?

She looks just like promethium used to.

What? Then this castle is...

What's wrong?

It's the 999's departure time!

I'll take you there. This way, tetsuro.

This is bad! We can't get through.

It's captain harlock!

Let's take that.

So long, tetsuro.

Thanks.

Don't you die before me. That's a promise between men!

All right.

Nice punch, by the way.

Don't you die either, meowdar!

I see, so you couldn't find miss maetel?

Maetel?

Maetel!

How have you been?

I am maetel. Tetsuro, get on the 999.

Leave the 999. It doesn't matter where.

You can ask the locomotive to take you to anywhere you wish.

What, don't you know?

They say that maetel took promethium's place.

That's a lie!

Tetsuro...

Maetel...

Attend, 999 and its passengers!

I am black knight faust, and I am taking control of the galaxy express.

Head toward the control center, immediately!

Locomotive, what do we do?

I cannot listen to the demand. My schedule will be ruined.

I am in control of this train now.

Not the galaxy express authority.

If you do not follow my orders, I will be forced to destroy you!

I am locomotive c6248.

I cannot betray my conscience. I simply cannot.

Locomotive, follow his orders.

Maetel!

There is no other way.

The crew does not need to disembark.

B-but I must protect the passengers!

There is no need!

Y-yes, sir.

Follow the walkway.

Promethium?

Queen promethium is the true ruler of the universe.

Her name is eternal.

Don't give me that. Promethium is dead!

Isn't that true, maetel?

So you're black knight faust!

Tetsuro...

What's the matter? Why are you staring at me!

Stop it!

Tetsuro!

Faust, what do you intend to do with tetsuro?

Do not worry.

I just want him to journey through time for a little while.

Jeez, what was that all about...

Where am 1?

Hey!

Hey!

Wait up!

M-mother...

And that's... me!

I remember now...

This is the night before mother was killed!

It's so cold. I can't get warm at all.

Come over here. I'll warm you up.

Mother, you're so warm.

Am?

This is the last night I had with mother.

She was still alive then, holding me with her warm hands.

Mother, we're finally going to megalopolis tomorrow, aren't we?

I'll do my best to help you buy a pass.

We'll get on the 999 together, won't we, mother?

Of course we will.

Wait a second. If I can warn them now, maybe mother won't have to die.

I might be able to change the flow of time!

Hey, mother! It's me, tetsuro!

Mother! Open the door!

Mother, listen!

The wind's starting to blow...

Mother! Open the door!

Hurry!

Mother! Mother!

Open the door!

Stop! Don't kill mother!

Tetsuro, hurry!

Don't shoot!

Don't kill my mother!

Don't kill her!

Mother...

Mother!

Tetsuro!

How was it, tetsuro, to have seen the past?

That was simply... a tragedy. A tragedy with no equal.

But that's how it is: When humans die, it's over.

Do you still want to rebel against queen promethium?

Wouldn't you rather live forever, as we do?

- If you had eternal life- - You're wrong!

It isn't over when you die! Red blood flows in my body.

It's the same blood that flows through my dead mother, pops, and the others!

And I swore to pops

that I'd return to the earth that's soaked in their blood!

Did you swear that to your father?

To the old man, and to all my comrades who died!

Their blood was shed for my sake!

So, that's who you call "father"...

For pops' sake, I'll...!

The warrior's gun?

Draw already!

Are you that eager to fight me?

That's right! Draw, damn you!

No, tetsuro!

Maetel!

Stay calm, tetsuro!

Stay where you are, and they'll come right to you...

Tetsuro...

You have learned far more than I expected.

But it may have been better for you had you lost...

Listen well, now.

You are on a journey believing that finite life is the best.

But that journey leads you straight into despair.

Soon, there will come a time when you will be crushed by that despair.

Very soon...

Do you know where I'm headed? What the 999's destination is?

The locomotive and maetel both know where you're going.

Maetel knows...?

Farewell, tetsuro.

We shall meet again, if you stay alive.

Is maetel back yet?

No, not yet.

Go ahead without me.

- No can do, sir! - Let me go! Put me down!

Maetel...

This is emeraldas. Come to a stop, 999.

Maetel?

She was about to fall into the bowels of space.

Maetel...

It looks as though you'll continue your hard journey.

Tetsuro...

It's your duty to protect maetel.

You are a man now, right?

Sickbay

This is what I wanted.

This beautiful face. This beautiful body.

Finally, they will be mine!

Maetel!

Did you bring maetel here?

Yes, I thought I'd tend to her.

Maetel, I'm not giving up! Someday... someday I'll...

Next stop: Planet mosaic.

We'll be stopping for two hours, sixteen minutes, and thirty seconds.

Planet mosaic?

It's a small planet at the entrance to the Andromeda galaxy, sir.

Andromeda, huh. Have I come that far...?

Tetsuro...

The 999's next stop, planet mosaic, is your last chance.

Past that, there's no turning back.

It's... the end.

I'll get off at mosaic with you.

We can live together on some planet for the rest of our lives, tetsuro.

Why? You told me in the message card to get on the train.

Now you're telling me to get off?

You haven't denied the rumor that you're the new promethium.

On top of that, you tried to stop me from fighting faust...

This journey is filled with too many mysteries.

I hear you're not getting off the 9997?

Nope.

You're not afraid?

You don't know what you're going to face.

Of course I'm afraid.

But I couldn't face my dead comrades if I turned back now.

You don't mind dying?

I won't die! I have to make it back to earth!

You'll never go back, ever.

How old are you?

Tetsuro is still young.

A youth doesn't even consider defeat.

He believes in a final victory, despite a setback or two.

That's true youth.

There used to be many like him...

Maetel, you seem to have known many young people.

It's true. I am a woman who journeys through time.

I've traveled with a countless number of youths.

We laughed and cried together... And then parted at death.

I will never forget those with whom I've traveled.

I've engraved the memories of each and every one of them onto my heart.

Forever.

It's the phantom train.

Meowdar, is that you?

Meowdar?

Meowdar?

Meowdar! It's me, tetsuro hoshino!

Meowdar!

Meowdar!

You won't be able to turn back from here on.

Tetsuro...

Your destination is great Andromeda, at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy.

Planet great Andromeda?

Yes. It is the capital of the rulers of the universe, the machine empire,

and is balanced in the gravity of a great star cluster.

Why didn't you mention that before?

You still would have gone, even if I had told you.

And you would never have come back alive...

Then why did you send me that message card?

That wasn't me.

It was a trap to send you on a journey to great Andromeda.

But I don't understand. Why go to all that trouble,

instead of just killing me from the beginning?

Something's wrong. What could it be-

- Mr. conductor? - Uh, yes ma'am?

You look a little concerned.

It's just that there's another mystery! The 999 isn't going straight.

It's not going straight?

Indeed. For now I am able to adjust, but something is affecting me.

I do not know what, but something is strongly pulling me towards the right.

I am afraid. I am very afraid.

Twenty seconds until we enter great Andromeda's atmosphere.

Thirty minutes forty-five seconds to maximum gravitational power brakes.

Final station, great Andromeda.

Planet great Andromeda.

To exit on the upper levels, take escalator no.808.

For underground levels, take the descending path to escalator no.989.

Andromeda, Andromeda. Planet great Andromeda...

Final station, great Andromeda...

You have finally come, tetsuro.

Calm down!

You're here as a guest, and I will not fight you.

Look for yourself, I am here unarmed.

Maetel, your highness, your transport awaits.

Thank you.

Tetsuro, why don't you all go on to the hotel.

But...

Please do as I say, tetsuro.

Look well, tetsuro. There is no fear of death here.

There is no hunger. This is a utopia.

Mankind can finally retain its infinite possibilities, forever.

The youth which is but a passing moment for you humans can go on endlessly here.

Eternal life is so wonderful!

Hmm? They're eating the same things as metalmena.

Those capsules are manufactured here and distributed to the entire universe.

It is the source of power that supports the mechanized world.

Welcome back maetel, my daughter.

Mother.

So, you still call me "mother"?

You and tetsuro destroyed your other half, planet maetel,

as well as my humanoid form.

We have both lost our respective halves.

Let us hate each other no longer.

Let us talk now, maetel.

Certainly.

Everyone has betrayed me.

When I was exiled from our home planet of la metal,

you were all I took with me.

After I arrived on this piece of rock,

I relied on no one.

With no power but my own, I built this machine planet,

a mechanized world with no fear of death.

What hard labor that was...

But my hardship will finally be rewarded.

I'm leaving the rest to you.

Then I can retire, and become the very heart of this planet.

Yes, mother.

Maetel is late.

M-Mr. tetsuro! Something's up!

Long live her majesty, the queen!

Glory to the machine empire!

Long live queen maetel!

Maetel!

Maetel!

Maetel!

Why did we travel together? What was it all for?

Tetsuro!

Maetel wants you!

She does?

Maetel?

Tetsuro, engrave into your heart everything you're about to see!

Why is the phantom train here?

Open the dome.

Only the queen may have access into the dome.

I am the new queen.

My apologies, your majesty. I shall obey.

Unlocking doors.

What's this?

The factory which extracts the flame of life!

0o-0oh no! Oh no!

Meowdar!

Meowdar!

The name's meowdar, from the planet andrado.

Don't you die before me. That's a promise between men!

Meowdar!

What a wimp, crying just because one person died!

There's nothing shameful about a boy mourning his dead friend!

Do you have a friend who will cry for you?

Does this still look like a paradise to you, metalmena?

Go on, eat them... Eat them, damn it!

Don't you want to eat the flame of life?

What's the matter?

This is your "eternal" life!

This can't be paradise if it's built on human lives.

You are all under arrest!

Metalmena!

Metalmena!

Metalmena...

I... wanted eternal life...

And maetel's body, the most beautiful in the universe.

I understand now... I lose, tetsuro.

Metalmena, you're-

are you crying... for me?

Thank you...

Tetsuro, get these people on board the 999!

There's one thing I want to do first.

I must defeat promethium!

Mother should be defeated not by you, but by myself!

With her blood in my veins, I will strike her down!

I knew you would betray me, maetel.

I offered you everything, and asked only to rest in peace.

But I will not be beaten, not ever.

Kill her! Kill maetel!

And what will you do with tetsuro?

I only brought tetsuro here because you requested him.

But he is an enemy of the machine empire.

There is no point in keeping him alive.

You have no arguments, do you, faust?

I have been waiting, lady maetel.

By the order of queen promethium, I am to take your life!

Faust!

Tetsuro!

Leave him to me, maetel!

What are you doing, maetel?

Are you trying to kill your own mother?

Even after everything I did for you as my daughter!

Maetel... maetel...

Maetel...

Forgive me, mother...

My foolish daughter. This is not planet maetel.

This is the machine empire capital, and a paradise of eternal life.

Planet great Andromeda... In other words, my own self!

Maetel, you were born to inherit the future, but you betrayed me!

So now you must die, and perish with humanity!

Prepare to-

Two battleships have entered our airspace!

What?

But what is this vibration?

W-what's happening?!

Mr. tetsuro, miss maetel! Hurry, hurry aboard!

Tetsuro, I-

what are you doing? Hurry, maetel!

A battle satellite?

Everyone, to the front!

Harlock!

The trajectories are all curving to the right!

Everything is pulling to the right... but why?

What's this?

Sir! A strong force is pulling from the right!

What?

What's wrong, were we hit?

An immense gravitational pull is currently in effect.

There is nothing I can do.

Siren the witch!

Siren the witch?

When siren the witch sings, all life will be snuffed out.

It's a legend in the Andromeda galaxy from antiquity.

Siren the witch? But why? Why would it come here?

Siren the witch...

She's a great, dark comet that travels through space...

In search of energy.

Promethium saturated this region with machine energy.

Siren the witch must be attracted to it.

The machine energy of the machine empire must have tempted her.

Exactly.

And being a machine myself, I think I'll sleep for a while.

I'll leave this to you, old friend.

Cease automatic navigation! Switch to manual!

We cannot use machine energy. Operate on manual power!

Afterburners at full! Correct course 22 degrees to port!

Wait.

It's been a long time.

The time has come for me to settle things with tetsuro.

Will you be our witness?

Very well.

Will you swear not to intervene, no matter who wins?

I do... but this will be a painful fight.

Without a Victor in this fight, neither he nor I have a future.

You are the devil.

The devil?

I am the devil, in the form of a man.

Farewell, harlock.

Farewell, friend.

You still call me... "Friend"?

Can I entrust this to you?

Sure.

You are about to withess the most painful thing in the universe, harlock.

Strange...

With this much of a power boost, we should be able to escape!

There must still be machine energy operating on the 999.

Farewell, tetsuro.

Tetsuro...

Wait, faust!

What's wrong?

It's faust! The black knight is here on this train!

Tetsuro...

This time, neither of us may withdraw.

If we're to make our peace, it must be now.

Maetel!

No one must intervene. This is a fight between men.

If you care for tetsuro, you must not intervene.

I can see without light, but you cannot.

It's the same as before. Wait for me...

Will you be able...

To wait for me?

You've become strong...

Tetsuro.

Farewell.

Farewell...

Son.

Farewell...

My son!

Cold... cold... it's so cold...

Maetel, won't you warm me up?

Maetel, my dear daughter.

Maetel... maetel...

This is the spaceship you and your mother wandered through space in?

We arrived here on this small, barren planet.

She fought against loneliness on this rock,

and built the machine empire, a world of eternal life.

She thought it was best.

My amazing mother.

It must have been a long, and lonely journey.

But... it's finally over.

At last...

Are you still going to return to earth?

Yeah.

I made a promise to my fallen comrades.

And all the people we saved said they'd come too.

I see.

Tetsuro, long ago your father was

a great warrior who fought beside emeraldas and me.

We may have grown apart...

But still, you remind me so much of him.

Tetsuro...

Your goals may be different from those of your father,

but you must overcome that, and make a future for the next generation!

From your father to you, and you to your son...

It will continue on forever.

And I believe that's the true form of eternal life!

Mr. conductor?

Oh, welcome back.

Something the matter?

Well, I've finally decided!

I could never decide between a human or machine body...

To be honest, I'm kind of embarrassed!

But now I know for sure!

So, which one?

Honestly, I'm just going to keep my original body!

No wonder you didn't want me seeing you in the bath...

Maetel, you know that you cannot go with tetsuro.

You and I...

We're both destined to continue on our never-ending journeys.

Maetel!

Go ahead, tetsuro.

Our journeys have no end...

Maetel?

Maetel!

Adieu, tetsuro.

I knew that some day we would have to part.

I am but a shadow of youth...

One who journeys through time, who can be seen only by youth.

As long as the name maetel remains in your memories,

I'll be... I'll be fine.

Adieu, tetsuro.

That I traveled with you in your youth...

Is something I shall never forget!

Adieu, my tetsuro.

Adieu...

Maetel...

Time goes by, and maetel is gone,

like the days of boyhood which will never return.

They say...

That the 999 was a train named "youth," which ran in tetsuro's heart.

Once again, the train blows its whistle, signaling a thousand thoughts.

Once again, the train goes on, carrying a thousand thoughts.

Adieu, maetel.

Adieu, galaxy express 999.

And so, the boy becomes a man.