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Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999 Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain) is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds (but not their emotions) into mechanical bodies thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981.
