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All aboard the Galaxy Express 999
I have a strange love for Leiji Matsumoto. What makes this strange is I’m not from the right generation to have watched Star Blazers as a teenager. Sure.…
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Galaxy Express 999 – Episode 3
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to hop back aboard the Galaxy Express, which most recently made its departure from the…
Galaxy Express 999 – Episode 1
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m delighted to announce we’re embarking on a journey through another beloved classic of anime, the TV adaptation…
Galaxy Express 999 – Episode 2
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am beyond excited to be embarking on the Galaxy Express, and once more exploring the sights of…
Galaxy Express 999 – Episode 4
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to continue our journey aboard the Galaxy Express, and see what wonders the cosmos have…
Space Pirate Captain Harlock Anime Movie Review
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PODCAST: Galaxy Express 999 The Movie
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS All aboard, anime fans! Join us as we punch our ticket to space adventure, science fantasy, and beautiful…
OtakuGeneration (Show #417) Galaxy Express 999
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Harlock, Harlock, Harlock
Swamped with work, hardly have time do anything else (though I’m getting paid for the work, so at least it’s not all bad). OK, here are three exciting…
I don't know why PLUTO is written in all caps
To tell you the truth, these don't look like horns to me.
Captain Harlock: Endless Orbit SSX – The Journey to Arcadia
Hmmmm. I am just writing about installments in franchises I have not watched in a little while, aren’t I? Will, I’m going to continue to do that right…
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I seem to be finishing a lot of things this well. With this post, I finally discussed all the Captain Harlock anime out there. Well, besides the CG…
Dark Africa, colonizers and Galaxy Express 999
Back when I was a freshman in high school, we had what I expect is a right of passage for any high school student — the state history…
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When I watch anime, I watch it from a Western viewpoint, or to be more accurate, a very American viewpoint. In a lot of ways, this is not…
The Angriest Planet in Galaxy Express 999
I’ve been thinking a lot about subtlety and nuance lately. Yes, I know that isn’t the most exciting topic, but this is my blog, and I like to…
The Mysterious Maetel in Galaxy Express 999
I’m going to get meta here for a second. As I’ve been writing about Galaxy Express 999, I’ve noticed lately that I tend to focus on a particular…
Is it better to kill the babies in Galaxy Express 999?
I’m fascinated by the number of plants, animals, and even microbes that have traveled with people as they’ve moved from place to place. Once I listened to a…
I still don't know why PLUTO is written in all caps
The absurdity of Uran's introduction took me out of the show for a while, to tell you the truth.
Galaxy Express 999 Episode 5: Melancholy on Pluto
As Tetsuro and Maetal continue their journey, they reach the final destination of their home solar system, the frigid dwarf planet Pluto; Maetal provides some key information by…
Skeletons, murder and tragedy? More Galaxy Express 999
Sometimes a show hits me with a conundrum that I don’t have an answer to. Typically, this comes when I’m hit with a concept or an execution that…
All Aboard the Great Express
Another Brave series has appeared on the horizon for today’s update: Brave Express Might Gaine You might recall that Might Gaine was previously featured on the old site, but…
#136 - Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth (1982) & Remembering Leiji Matsumoto
Hoist your wine glasses towards the infinite sea of stars! On this episode, we are reviewing the 1982 space opera based on the iconic manga from Leiji Matsumoto,…
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KYOTO VIDEO finally delves into the storied Captain Harlock and his cinematic 1982 origin story Arcadia of My Youth. A that film not only wanted to show the…
Mama Is a 5th Grader???: Galaxy Express 999’s Maetel in Shinkalion Z
I don’t necessarily feel obligated to write about every crossover character in the Shinkalion franchise, but when she’s a rendition of one of my favorite heroines from one…
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Is Luffy Related to Roger?
Is Luffy Related to Roger? - Learn how Luffy and Roger are connected by the Will of D., a hidden destiny that links them to the secrets of…
Odds and Ends of Galaxy Express 999 (Part 1)
Normally, I do these odds and ends posts right before I do my wrap-up post for the series, but Galaxy Express 999 is different. This show is long.…
Puritans, capitalism and hard work in Galaxy Express 999
(Note: I’m going to use U.S. and America interchangeably. I just want to say that I realize this is horribly unfair to our neighbors to the north and…
Food zombies and wildflowers: Galaxy Express 999 and poverty
Growing up Leiji Matsumoto had an up-close relationship with poverty. His father was a former Japanese aviator who gave up piloting after the end of World War II.…
Getting rich on ecological disaster in Galaxy Express 999
(Note: I apologize ahead of time for any gross oversimplifications of history that are contained in this blog post.) When I was growing up, I remember seeing news…
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie – Some Things Never Change
It’s Leijiverse Time Leiji Matsumoto was one of the most prominent and influential people in the anime industry. I say it was because Leiji Matsumoto died at the…
The Evil that Live After in Galaxy Express 999
So, it’s always felt that the Friends, Roman, Countrymen speech gets an unfair shake in popular culture. It’s never gets treated with the same gravity as the To…
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I Don't Know Which Is Love is all about wallowing in the delirious indecision of being the cheese in a quintuple-decker girlburger, and has no patience for anything…
Love in the time of existentialism in Galaxy Express 999
No one really gets to live happily ever after in Galaxy Express 999. OK. That might not be entirely true. There are a handful of stories about people…
Adieu Galaxy Express 999 – It’s Not Over Until It’s Over
The End of Galaxy Express 999: The Movie To discuss this film, I do need to actually reveal the ending of the first movie. So, if you haven’t…
Ghost people don’t get free will in Galaxy Express 999
Galaxy Express 999 has a strange relationship with self-determination. I took a week off of writing about Galaxy Express 999, and I’ve hit a pocket of exciting episodes…
The Odds and Ends of Galaxy Express 999 (part 2)
I’ve almost made it halfway to the Andromeda Galaxy with Maetel and Tetsuro, which means I’m just about ready for another odds and ends post. I did one…
Dying free or living a slave in Galaxy Express 999
Though it’s only half a month away, the media’s goneAn entertaining scandal broke today, but I can’t move onI’m haunted by a story and I do my best…
To push the rock or not in Galaxy Express 999
Sometimes it’s best to start at the beginning with one of these posts. I don’t really have a clever anecdote or a personal revelation to start this with.…
The space train of Winesburg: Galaxy Express 999 and grotesques
“Anderson evokes a depressed landscape in which lost souls wander about; they make their flitting appearances mostly in the darkness of night, these stumps and shades of humanity.”Irving…
Lotus Eaters and Steam Trains: The Myth of the Galaxy Express
Author’s note: I wrote this after watching the first 10 episodes of the show. If there is anything further on that contradicts this, I apologize. Galaxy Express 999…
Galaxy Express 999: Going off the Rails on a Mediocre Train
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Soraike Mei, on the day of her high school graduation, had her heart broken by the girl she’d had a crush on for three years. In college then,…
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Galaxy Express 999 would have been 10-year-old me’s absolute favourite movie ever, if I’d had the chance as a kid to see it. As a UK-based…
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The Curse of Knowledge makes it hard for people to communicate. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing an anime blog post or an academic journal article. We know…