Night on the Galactic Railroad

Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru

Based on a short story by the popular children’s writer Kenji Miyazawa, Galactic Railroad offers viewers a slow-paced, dreamlike journey through space and time. When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railroad. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St. Exupery’s Little Prince, offer curious adventures and an assortment of human "types." Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life. The characters are depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.

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SEASONS, OVAs, MOVIES & SPECIALS

4 ENTRIES

ALTERNATIVE · MANGANight on the Galactic Railroad—

ALTERNATIVE · MANGANight on the Galactic Railroad—

ALTERNATIVE · MANGANight on the Galactic Railroad—

ALTERNATIVE · MANGAGinga Tetsudo no Yoru—

CHARACTERS

2 MAIN · 17 SUPPORTING

CampanellaMAINChika Sakamoto

GiovanniMAINMayumi Tanaka

ToritoriSUPPORTINGChikao Ootsuka

GyuunyuuyaSUPPORTINGSeiji Kurazaki

ToudaimoriSUPPORTINGFujio Tokita

Keisatsu ShochouSUPPORTINGTatsuyuki Jinnai

ZanelliSUPPORTINGJunko Hori

MusengishiSUPPORTINGTakeshi Aono

Kappanjo no BunsenkouSUPPORTINGShun Yashiro

MarceauSUPPORTINGMiyuki Ichijou

SeinenSUPPORTINGHidehiro Kikuchi

Giovanni no HahaSUPPORTINGYoshie Shimamura

KaoruSUPPORTINGKaori Nakahara

Zakkaya no ShujinSUPPORTINGRyuuji Saikachi

TadashiSUPPORTINGYuriko Fuchizaki

RoubaSUPPORTINGReiko Niimura

ShashouSUPPORTINGTetsuya Kaji

Sensei GakushaSUPPORTINGRyuunosuke Kaneda

Campanella no ChichiSUPPORTINGGorou Naya