Galaxy Railway

[Radd]

If Anime One is working on the third episode of Macross Zero right now like I hope, then I'm content to wait. I can't wait for the next episode of Galaxy Railways, but Macross Zero only comes out like one episode every 6 months or so.

[NenMaster]

is it me or does this anime go overboard on the music

[PocariSweat]

Originally Posted by NenMaster

is it me or does this anime go overboard on the music

I don't know if I'd call it overboard, but listening to the theme sung in that swaggering "heroic" voice kind of makes me think it's going to be a show about a guy fighting foam rubber monsters in a bug-eyed robot suit - Go Go Ultra-Kikaida-7!!

[Ulayo]

Originally Posted by NenMaster

is it me or does this anime go overboard on the music

Actually, I think it's kinda cool.
It also reminds me of the Starzinger intro (I even think it's the same guy singing it).
Besides, it kinda suits this one. Good space operas are supposed to have these kind of into/outros.

[Rheinhard]

Originally Posted by Ulayo

Actually, I think it's kinda cool.
It also reminds me of the Starzinger intro (I even think it's the same guy singing it).
Besides, it kinda suits this one. Good space operas are supposed to have these kind of into/outros.

Yup! In fact it's documented here on another AnimeSuki Forum thread. It is indeed the master, Isaki Sasao. The man has been a fixture of anime and Tokusatsu film for a generation. Here's his official web page (all japanese unfortunately), which has a pic of the Galaxy Railways cd on the front page. Here's a page listing some of his background in English.

[NenMaster]

Originally Posted by Ulayo

Good space operas are supposed to have these kind of into/outros.

cant disagree with that

[Rheinhard]

Originally Posted by Radd

If Anime One is working on the third episode of Macross Zero right now like I hope, then I'm content to wait. I can't wait for the next episode of Galaxy Railways, but Macross Zero only comes out like one episode every 6 months or so.

I take it as testament to my awesome power as the Cosmo-Führer that within about 2 hours of my posting an inquiry on the Live-eviL group forum wondering where the next episode of Galaxy Railways was, that the torrents for episodes 5 and 6 were made available on AnimeSuki.

I promise to only use this power for good.

Legend of Galactic Heroes R1 DVDs! So mote it be!

[kamij0]

any idea how this anime is going to be how long ? seems like there's not much of any development..

[SpikeSpencer]

i've been real interested in Galaxy Railways, I havent been an Anime fan for long enough(3 years or so) to have appreciated Leiji Matsumoto's stuff. But from watching this, the style made me watch Galaxy Express 999 and Star Blazers...its sad I never had watched these before, I know, regardless I have to thank this new one to making me finally watch them

[JAppi]

Originally Posted by kamij0

any idea how this anime is going to be how long ? seems like there's not much of any development..

Well the first Galaxy Railways dvd came with a box that holds 5 dvds. So I think it would be safe to assume that it will be 5 dvds long, (dunno how many eps are on a dvd)

[Rheinhard]

Originally Posted by kamij0

any idea how this anime is going to be how long ? seems like there's not much of any development..

According to my friend in Japan, it is planned to run the usual 26 episodes...

[kamij0]

Originally Posted by Rheinhard

According to my friend in Japan, it is planned to run the usual 26 episodes...

thanks for the info.
seems the subs come slow, bud i aint complaining much, its a dessert for me, after devouring the main animes. a pretty sweet dessert i would say

[Jonus]

Has the subbing be dropped by Live eviL?

You can get up to episode 14 as raw version already.

[NoSanninWa]

:sigh: Please try to search before asking questions. There's been a good deal of chatter on the subject of Live-eviL lately. There is even a thread devoted to them. The summary is simple: NO!

Live-eviL is on vacation until the end of January. They posted this information just before Christmas so that noone would wonder if anything had happened to their group because they aticipated questions like yours.

[Jonus]

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

:sigh: Please try to search before asking questions. There's been a good deal of chatter on the subject of Live-eviL lately. There is even a thread devoted to them. The summary is simple: NO!

The summery to what? And why are you so unfriendly?

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

Live-eviL is on vacation until the end of January. They posted this information just before Christmas so that noone would wonder if anything had happened to their group because they aticipated questions like yours.

I know that Live-evil is making a pause.

Still they seem to have dropped galaxy railways, because afaik there has been episode 7, 8 and more raw before they began their pause. I could be wrong, just wanted another opinion.

I also read that they plan to fansub the whole galaxy express thing. Well ...

[Tofusensei]

Well, since the project revived, I figured may as well revive the thread...

To the people following this show, what do you think of the direction it's gone so far? I'm really excited about ep 9 because it is completely different from the rest of the episodes so far. It's an odd show because every episode is so unique and yet somehow repetitive...

Alas, Leiji is still king ^^; And Yuki is hot :P

-Tofu

[Rheinhard]

I'm very, very happy that subbing of this series has continued.

I am rather less happy that the encoding is being done with the default settings on the latest release of Xvid, which causes major problems for any players or decoders using libavcodec (which seems to be most of them). Check this thread for details. I hope the sub encoders will consider switching off the setting that is causing all these problems.

[Tofusensei]

Originally Posted by Rheinhard

I'm very, very happy that subbing of this series has continued.

I am rather less happy that the encoding is being done with the default settings on the latest release of Xvid, which causes major problems for any players or decoders using libavcodec (which seems to be most of them). Check this thread for details. I hope the sub encoders will consider switching off the setting that is causing all these problems.

Oh.

I won't use it any more.. hehe ^^;

I've had no issues playing back on windows or unix personally, but I'll take your word for it.

-Tofu

[gohmifune]

Originally Posted by Relentless

However, 5, 10 or 20 years from now, we'll still be talking about it the same way we still talk about Harlock, Star Blazers or Galaxy Express 999 while all the unfilling, flashy anime are long forgotten. That's what makes them "classic".

Rather than universes, Matsumoto has characters or archetypes he constanly shuffles around similar themes of sacrifice and heroism. His shorter, literally more "down to earth" characters are your everyman; while his taller and more stylized characters are the heroic, literally "bigger than life" heroes. I find fascinating how he revisits and recreates them, it fits very well his grandiose visions.

When talking about character types, you cannot forget about the tall blonde that is always mysterious and is a companion to the hero. Queen Millenia, the Harlock series, Galaxy Express, DNA sights, they all have the beutiful blonde. Bless that man.

And I think Galaxy railways will be another one of him memorable series. IT is one of those things that kind of defines the otaku in a way I believe. To know harlock shows your appreciate for anime, the CN DBZ crowd wouldn't know Harklock. Matsumoto's stuff ends up making anime in general special.

[NoSanninWa]

I just watched episode 12 of this show and I feel that I have to comment on Galaxy Railways.

At first this show seemed to be a matter of "another episode - another tragedy," but it quickly proved itself greater than that simple formula. Some episodes happened that weren't tragic and other episodes happened that weren't based around missions. Everytime I think that this show is getting stale a new story is told. What this show really seems to be about is illuminating the nature of the human condition. The reason for all the tragedy, is that human nature is frequently tragic.

Now onto something specific. Please don't click on the spoiler tag unless you've already watched episode 12. Reading this spoiler will totally ruin the episode!

Spoiler for Episosode 12 - Twilight:

I was actually suprised by the ending of this episode. I was all geared up for another tragedy Galaxy Railways style. It honestly wouldn't have been too surpising in this show if the old woman had died of a heart attack on learning of her son's death or else decided to stay on this planet and die with it. That would have been business as usual. Yet this show manages to keep things fresh yet again when we discover that we are actually watching a ghost story. In another anime I would have expected that, but here it was a complete shock. Once again I find myself looking eagerly towards the next episode of Galaxy Railways!