Toei Animation has released a Galaxy Express 999 anime music video titled “Orbital Resonance,” the second project from the GREEN OCEAN creators label it co-founded.
Illustrator and animator G-ko directed the animation, which features lanky character designs and textured backgrounds. They also animated alongside GOAN Kurumi and SHIRATO.
A KOCHO-performed cover of GODIEGO’s “Galaxy Express 999” (part of the 1979 Galaxy Express 999 anime movie’s soundtrack) is used in the video.
Galaxy Express 999 began as a manga by the late Leiji Matsumoto. There was a TV anime that ran from 1978 to 1981, and another anime film titled Sayonara Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Shuchakueki.
Discotek describes the TV anime as such:
Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and terminating at Andromeda on the other. But the Galaxy Express is more than just a train, it’s also a metaphor for life itself, with passengers constantly boarding, debarking, and dreaming along the way.
Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who’ll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother at the hands of the villainous Count Mecha. But nothing is as easy as it sounds, and Tetsuro is about to learn the true price not only for boarding the Three-Nine and avenging his mother, but for leaving his childhood behind, falling in love, and becoming a man.
Toei Animation founded GREEN OCEAN in October with with entertainment company DeNA and Tokyo University of the Arts‘ (Tokyo Geidai) Department of Animation’s Planning and Development Office. ThView Poste label seeks to provide training, produce a new generation of creators with skills applicable on the world stage, and provide better hands-on support for young creators.
Source: Toei Animation YouTube channel
