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The Galaxy Railways (TV)

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[ spinoff of Galaxy Express 999 (TV) ]

Related anime:
    (The) Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet (OAV) (sequel)
      Ginga Tetsudo Monogatari: Eien e no Bunkiten (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Galaxy Railways (French)
Ginga Tetsudo Monogatari (Japanese)
Storie delle Ferrovie Galattiche (Italian)
銀河鉄道物語 (Japanese)
Themes: Space
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: In the future, the planets are connected with a massive galactic railway system. The passengers of the railways are protected by two forces, the Space Panzer Grenadiers (SPG) and the Space Defense Force (SDF). This is the story of Manabu Yuuki, a new member of the Sirius Platoon within the SDF. He and his new crewmates meld together as a team through their dealings with escaped criminals, meteors, hostile aliens, a time vortex, ghosts and terrorists before defending mankind from its greatest peril yet.
Video:
User Ratings: 156 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 8 votes (dub:4, sub:3, raw:1)
 Excellent: 26 votes (dub:15, sub:9, ?:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 39 votes (sub:19, dub:17, edit.dub:2, Fre.dub:1)
 Good: 31 votes (dub:18, sub:11, Spa.sub:2)
 Decent: 23 votes (sub:13, dub:10)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:2)
 Not really good: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:2)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:2, Fre.sub:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:2)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 390 users, rank: #1200
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.8089 (Good-.19), std. dev.: 2.2577, rank: #2022
Weighted mean: 6.8343 (Good-.16), rank: #1786
Bayesian estimate: 6.87555 (Good-.12), rank: #1507
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2003-10-04 to 2004-04-04
Opening Theme:
"<Ginga Tetto wa Harukanari>" by <???> 
"Gin Ga Tet Sudo wa HaruKaNaRi" by Sasaki Isao
Ending Theme:
"<The galaxy railway is far away>" by <???> 
"Gin Ga no HiKaRi" by Sasaki Isao
Trivia: We have 3
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Related reviews:
    The Galaxy Railways DVD 1

Related releases:
    The Galaxy Railways - Complete Collection (DVD) 2007-02-06 (from $53.98)
    The Galaxy Railways - Box Set - Viridian Collection (DVD) 2008-02-26 (from $22.99)
    The Galaxy Railways (DVD 1) 2005-07-19 (from $4.00)
    The Galaxy Railways - Vol 1 + Artbox (DVD 1) 2005-07-19 (from $19.74)
    The Galaxy Railways - His Father's Son (DVD 2) 2005-09-13 (from $26.99)
    The Galaxy Railways - The Vastness Within (DVD 3) 2005-11-08 (from $4.00)
    The Galaxy Railways - Leaps of Faith (DVD 4) 2006-01-03 (from $4.00)
    The Galaxy Railways - Manabu's Decision (DVD 5) 2006-02-28 (from $4.00)
    The Galaxy Railways - Eternal Hope (DVD 6) 2006-04-25 (from $4.00)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Yukio Nishimoto

Script: Hideaki Sonoda

Music: Nozomi Aoki

Original creator:
Hideo Aihara
Leiji Matsumoto

Character Design:
Fuminori Kizaki
Fumitomo Kizaki
Itsuko Takeda

Art director: Yoshimi Umino

Mechanical design:
Koji Watanabe
Takashi Hashimoto

Director of Photography: Katsuyoshi Kishi

Executive producer:
Hideo Aihara
Hiroshi Kon

Producer: Hiroshi Kon

Color design: Takuya Kawami

Computer Graphic Design: Takafumi Arai

Design: Keiji Hashimoto

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Key Animation: Mitsuru Obunai (OP)

Line Producer: Yasuo Hasegawa

Music Director: Yoku Shioya

Original Mechanical Design: Katsumi Itabashi

Planning: Hiroshi Kon

Series Structure:
Hideki Sonoda
Ritsuko Hayasaka

 

Naoki Yanagi as Manabu Yuuki

Akio Ohtsuka as Schwanhelt Bulge

Takehito Koyasu as Bruce J. Speed

Aki Nanbu as Sayaka

Akira Ishida as Owen (Ep. 9)

Asami Sanada as Louis Fort Drake

Asuka Tanii as Kate

Atsuko Tanaka as Katarina (ep 11)

Atsushi Imaruoka as José Antonio Valdivia

Bin Shimada as
Leon (ep 10)
Reon (ep 10)

Chikao Ohtsuka as Station Master (ep 12)

Hikari Yono as
Kinuko Asai
Percy Shelly

Hikaru Midorikawa as
David Young
Yuuki Mamoru

Hitoshi Kubota as
Heigoro Todo
Narration

Isao Sasaki as President

Izumi Koike as Miki

Kayato Ohashi as Brad

Kazuhiko Inoue as Yuuki Wataru

Kenta Miyake as Haideru (ep 14)

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Johanson

Kiyomi Asai as Jane

Kôzô Shioya as
Ivonov Leonidovitch Berichkov
Iwanofu

Kumiko Yokote as Julia F. Reinhart

Mayumi Shou as Raiza (ep 10)

Mitsuaki Hoshino as Taro Akatsuki

Miyoko Asou as Ine (Ep. 12)

Miyuki Sawashiro as
Berga (Ep. 9)
Rifl (Ep. 21)

Miyuki Ueda as President's wife

Nachi Nozawa as Kinderikku (ep 17)

Nanae Katou as Sarai (ep 9)

Naoko Suzuki as Sexaroid Yuki

Nobuo Tobita as Kou (ep 13)

Ryusaku Chijiwa as Ryusaku Murase

Takeshi Aono as
Hoitman (Ep. 8)
Whitman (ep 8)

Tomato Akai as Ai Matsuura

Wataru Hatano as Edwin Silver

Yoichi Masukawa as Franz

Yoshito Yasuhara as Kei Ohyama (ep 16)

Youji Ueda as Moritz Schneider

Youko Asagami as
Layla Destiny Shura
Yuuki Kanna

Yuu Urata as Shou Kashiwamori

Yuuji Kishi as Vittrio (ep 9)

Yuuki Mitsugi as Maggie Redford

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Planet

Broadcaster: BS Fuji

Production:
Galaxy Railways HQ
Planet

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director:
Chris Cason
Eric Vale (Ep. 11-12)
Mike McFarland
Sonny Strait (Ep. 6-8, 13)

ADR Script:
Carl Macek (Ep. 11-12)
Christopher Neel

Executive producer:
Cindy Brennan Fukunaga
Gen Fukunaga

Producer:
Barry Watson
Daniel Cocanougher

ADR Engineer:
Andrew Tipps
James Barker
Justin Pate
Tyler Walker

Assistant Talent Coordinator: Scott Garner

Assistant Writer: Jacqueline Gilbert

Audio Mixer: Nathanael Harrison

Japanese Translations: Steven J. Simmons

Line Producer: Justin Cook

Production Assistant:
Alese Johnson
Chase Lenderman
Clarine Harp
Diana Fonner
Duane Deering
Jayme Westman
Jessie Mancilla
Shane Ray

Production Coordination: Neil Weathersbee

Script Supervisor: Jeremy Carlile

Talent Coordinator: Tara Williams

Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez

 

Chris Patton as Manabu 

John Gremillion as Schawanheld Bulge

Linda Young as Kinuko

Luci Christian as Louis Fort Drake

Matthew Thompkins as The Narrator

Mike McFarland as Bruce J. Speed

Aaron Dismuke as young Manabu 

Ace Winn as Saboru (Ep. 13, Boy)

Amber Cotton as Yuki

Andy Mullins as Commander (Ep. 10, 26)

Anthony Bowling as Snaeder

Bill Flynn as Ooiwa

Brice Armstrong as Whitman (Ep. 8)

Brina Palencia as Sarah

Caitlin Glass as Ai

Charles Baker as Hijacker

Christine Auten as General Forecis (Ep. 25-26)

Christopher R. Sabat as Leon (Ep. 10)

Colin Ware as Silver (Ep. 7)

Colleen Clinkenbeard as Shelley (Ep. 6, 26)

Cynthia Cranz as Liza (Ep. 10)

Cynthia Martinez as Trille (Ep. 26)

Dameon Clarke as President Drake

Daniel Katsük as Franz

David Trosco as Mamoru 

David Trosko as Mamoru

Emily Hornsby as Miki

Frank Ford as Brad

Gwendolyn Lau as Catalina (Ep. 11-12)

Jamie Marchi as Maggie Redford (Ep. 7)

Jennifer Seman as Kanna (Ep. 13, 26)

Jerry Zumwalt as José Antonio Valdivia (Ep. 7)

Jim Foronda as Shaw

Jonathan C. Osborne as Humanoid A (Ep. 10)

Justin Pate as Saboru (Ep. 13)

Kara Howell as
Announcer (Ep. 10)
Helga (Ep. 9)

Kate Oxley as Sayaka (Ep. 7-8, 13, 26)

Kevin M. Connolly as Terry Goldman (eps 4)

Kyle Hebert as
Alien (Ep. 13)
Bad Boy #3 (Ep. 13)
Blond Man (Ep. 8)
Death (Ep. 18)
Dr. Talbert (Ep. 7)
Guard Bot (Ep. 7)
Old Man with Cat (Ep. 19)
Train Announcer (Ep. 8)

Laura Bailey as Layla

Leah Clark as Female alien

Lucy Small as Kate (Ep. 7, 13, 26)

Majken Bullard as Salye (Ep. 9)

Mark Stoddard as Vittorio (Ep. 9)

Markus Lloyd as David 

Matthew Thompkins as Murase (Ep. 7)

Michael Sinterniklaas as Owen

Orion Pitts as Hijacker (Ep. 9)

R Bruce Elliott as Akatsuki (Ep. 8)

Sean Schemmel as Humanoid B (Ep. 10)

Sonny Strait as
Captain (Ep. 8)
Robot Conductor (Ep. 13)

Stephanie Nadolny as Charlie (Ep. 8)

Stephanie Young as Julia F. Reinhart

Susan Huber as Kate

Sydney Winn as Mamoru (Ep. 13, Boy)

Trina Nishimura as Miki (Ep. 26)

Troy Baker as Wataru Yuuki

Andrew Rye

Chance Munsterman

Chris Cason

Clarine Harp

Dana Schultes

Daniel Penz

Eric Vale

Jeff Johnson

Jim Johnson

Jonathan C. Osborne

Justin Cook

Lauren Goode

Maria Vu

Mark Lancaster

Ricky Page

Sean Schemmel

Steven Morris

Wendy Powell

English companies 

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
Anime Selects
Colours TV
FUNimation Channel

Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Colette Noel

Adaptation: Frédéric Roques

 

François Creton as Thomas (Manabu Yuuki)

Frederic Popovic as Bruce (Blues Jay Speed)

Isabelle Volpe as Cassiopée (Yuuki Sexaroïd)

Nathalie Bienaime as Liz (Louis Fort Drake)

Patrick Noerie as Wilson (David Young)

Patrick Pellegrin as Capitaine Bulge

Colette Noel as Lady Destiny

Constantin Pappas as Léonard (ep.13)

Fabrice Nemo as Nash (ep.6, 7)

Frederic Popovic as Allan (Mamoru Yuuki)

Isabelle Volpe as Jane Goldman (ep.4)

Mathieu Rivolier as Daneb (ep.8)

Nathalie Bienaime as Thomas (jeune)

Patrick Noerie as Marchab Wallace (Wataru Yuuki)

Yann Pichon as
M.Hamilton (ep.16)
Terry Goldman (ep.4)

French companies 

Broadcaster: France 4

Distributor: Déclic Images

Dubbing: Les studios de Saint Maur

 
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