Matsumoto Reiji has some really deep stuff from way back

Really? I could have sworn he was involved in a overseeing role or something. I stand corrected

no, just his studio was contracted to do it

if Matsumoto himself was involved it would have been a lot more depressing 😄

ok. thanks for the correction

I'm a fan of him because of Galaxy Express 999, because it's actually based off of another story by Miyazawa Kenji

and I have a second home in Hanamaki City, which is where that story starts from

I mostly know him from Harlock and Yamato.

My brother watched 999 but I never got through the whole series

I was too busy

the television series cuts out a lot of the deep stuff

So I was told.

what's really cool is that all the stories from Miyazawa took place in Hanamaki City, so the whole city has a different name for each place

so there are two maps for the city, one with addresses in the real world, and one in the world from the stories

and you can send mail to the story addresses and it actaully arrives

the street signs have all the places

Had to look the city up. I'd never heard of it. That's really interesting. Western Cities don't do that

the station where the Galaxy Express used to depart was decomissioned and it's now a museum/art gallery, and it's named "Milkyway Station"

and the train that would have been the Galaxy Express is there

That's awesome

they preserved the bridges from the old line too, and they illuminate them at night

and they have this art all over the city baesd on it, it's all black-light

That's really cool

Wow!

this is all over the city

so you can follow the journey of the train around

aah here we go:

that's the "Galaxy Express"

That's awesome!

can't find a good picture but

this is the entrance to the musem

says "Milkyway Station"

My city, Thunder Bay has a sister city in Japan called Gifu City

dude I'm less than an hour from Gifu

I live in Aichi

That's cool! Apparently they are part of a 5 city project where 2 american, 1 Canadian, 1 finish and 1 Japanese city trade and had sporting events together.

You're pretty close. wow