Night on the Galactic Railroad
銀河鉄道の夜
1 total episodes
Finished airing
Synopsis
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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Episodes
Characters

Giovanni
MAIN
Mayumi Tanaka
Japanese


Campanella
MAIN
Chika Sakamoto
Japanese


Zanelli
SUPPORTING
Junko Hori
Japanese


Marceau
SUPPORTING
Miyuki Ichijou
Japanese


Giovanni no Haha
SUPPORTING
Yoshie Shimamura
Japanese


Zakkaya no Shujin
SUPPORTING
Ryuuji Saikachi
Japanese


Rouba
SUPPORTING
Reiko Niimura
Japanese


Sensei Gakusha
SUPPORTING
Ryuunosuke Kaneda
Japanese


Toritori
SUPPORTING
Chikao Ootsuka
Japanese


Toudaimori
SUPPORTING
Fujio Tokita
Japanese










