{"id":150219,"date":"2024-10-19T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=40597"},"modified":"2024-10-19T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T14:31:01","slug":"galaxy-express-999-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/19\/galaxy-express-999-episode-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Express 999 \u2013 Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to continue our journey aboard the Galaxy Express, and see what wonders the cosmos have to offer us. Well, I say that like I\u2019m expecting anything good to happen, when in truth Tetsuro\u2019s journeys have mostly centered on veneers of exotic beauty peeling away to reveal cores of profound tragedy. The abandoned sands of Mars, the superficial freedom of Titan, and even the majestic beauty of one-time train attendant Claire, all vivid dreams that soon proved themselves nightmares of mankind\u2019s eternal, self-destructive striving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, theme-ravenous cynic that I am, Galaxy Express 999\u2019s broader reflections on society, capitalism, and whatever else Matsumoto can think of has only made the experience all the more rewarding for me. Through its mixture of fantastical vistas and humanity-in-decline parables, Galaxy Express has proven itself a paragon of one of my favorite genres: the post-apocalyptic travelog, typified by stories like Girls\u2019 Last Tour and Kemurikusa. As it turns out, the ruins of mankind\u2019s hubris serve as an ideal venue for ruminations on what is most essential to humanity, what we must hold sacred even when all else has crumbled. Let\u2019s see what wonders await us at the next station!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Episode 4<\/b><\/p>\n

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Leiji Matsumoto is certainly an interesting pillar of anime history. His character designs are iconic, but it\u2019s not really his comic art sensibilities that he is most renowned for – it is his vivid imagination, tethering the melancholy and grandeur of authors like H.G. Wells to the energy and action-packed drama of weekly comic books<\/span><\/p>\n

Hell, even H.G. Wells\u2019 original stories were largely episodic, with books like 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea offering a fresh danger or wonder every chapter. Matsumoto\u2019s brilliance speaks to the cruciality of reading broadly – he draws heavily from influences outside of manga (necessarily, given the era he started drawing in), and his works are far richer as a result. One of the greatest creative threats facing modern anime is that so much of it is created by and for people who do not read broadly, and thus value formula over discovery, even if just unconsciously<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Bandit Antares\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy, Tetsuro, you must have been tired.\u201d Maetel seems quite fond of Tetsuro. I wonder if she sees in him a sort of freedom she wants for herself – it\u2019s clear she\u2019s operating under strict orders and is somehow incorporated into the power structure of this world, whereas Tetsuro is naive and lacking in power, but genuinely free in both thought and action<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut Tetsuro, once you get your metal body, you won\u2019t need any more sleep.\u201d These words are contrasted against Tetsuro laughing in his dreams. These metal bodies seem to imply stasis or finality – it is the red blood of humanity that carries the potential to grow and change, whereas the cyborgs are trapped in stable cages. Is it worth it to live forever if you abandon the ability to even dream?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tetsuro\u2019s dreams carry him back to happy times shared with his mother and father. His father actually has a distinctive adult design, hewing to neither Matsumoto\u2019s space captain nor gremlin archetypes<\/span><\/p>\n

An overhead pan reveals the Galaxy Express has a fully stocked coal car. What a whimsical mode of transportation<\/span><\/p>\n

The speakers inform us that an unidentified object is traveling beneath the train<\/span><\/p>\n

The object is a goddamn space pirate who\u2019s been clinging to the undercarriage Cape Fear-style. Once again, when train journey conventions and space travel conventions collide, train conventions always win<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maetel continues to marvel at Tetsuro\u2019s peaceful sleep. Her envy seems like a clear indication she\u2019s an android herself<\/span><\/p>\n

The conductor\u2019s frantic pacing through the cabins alerts our heroes to something being wrong<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing a much wider variety of body archetypes in this episode, as our space pirate shakes down all the Galaxy Express\u2019s passengers. This older man who stumbles into their cabin is an interesting mix of forms – larger and broader than Tetsuro, but with a similar boyish face, here lent age mostly through the addition of a mustache<\/span><\/p>\n

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Matsumoto feels less like a dedicated manga-first artist than a storyteller who can draw, telling his stories in the medium that is commercially available to him. His drawings are simplistic and often distractingly similar to each other, but the power of his work is not contained in the theoretical brilliance of his paneling and draftsmanship<\/span><\/p>\n

Funny to compare that to modern shonen manga, which generally feature exceptional draftsmanship and very few ideas<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, Maetel\u2019s design is so damn iconic. Even this brief mid-distance shot emphasizes the dramatic yet somehow graceful contrast of her black coat, hat, and hair<\/span><\/p>\n

The pirate introduces himself as Antares. Another strong design, and again leaning towards historical piracy rather than space-faring<\/span><\/p>\n

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Antares is impressed by Tetsuro\u2019s blaster, which apparently makes them fast friends. Tetsuro suggests he travel to the planet where they give out mechanical bodies for free, but Antares says that\u2019s not what he\u2019s after<\/span><\/p>\n

He takes Maetel hostage, demanding to be taken to the engine room<\/span><\/p>\n

A bold play by the conductor! He slams Antares with the door of the coal carriage, then buries him under the coal. Thank goodness space trains run on old-fashioned coal<\/span><\/p>\n

But Antares is slipperier than they think! Well actually, the conductor just gives him a perfect opportunity to regain control, prioritizing filing a report on the incident over making sure the goddamn pirate is restrained<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The engine refuses to obey his commands until he threatens to kill Tetsuro. It feels very appropriate for this universe that there\u2019s no one steering this train but the train itself – everyone is bound to a mechanically programmed track of some kind, whether they are trapped within the sterile eternal present of a mechanical body or hopelessly pursuing the dream of that ambiguous eternity<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis respected Galaxy Express 999 is going to stop right in front of my house.\u201d Antares revels in the power he briefly holds over the seemingly implacable forces of this universe. In spite of this stagnant galaxy\u2019s implacable systems, one man with a gun and nothing to lose can still affect some change<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Antares then uses an x-ray scanner to confirm that both Tetsuro and Maetel are humans. Both scan clean, but I frankly don\u2019t trust this scanner\u2019s ability to truly reveal Maetel\u2019s nature<\/span><\/p>\n

Our space pirate actually has an unexpected cordial streak, offering to reveal his own bones in penance for asking them the same<\/span><\/p>\n

We see that his body is full of unexploded energy rounds – \u201cone day, one will explode, and I\u2019ll disappear without a trace.\u201d In the parlance of this show, Antares is actually \u201cmore human than human,\u201d doomed to eventually pass away without warning. Yet despite the fragility of his life, he still values the vitality of a human lifespan over the potential for a cyborg frame<\/span><\/p>\n

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Antares\u2019 home actually appears to be some kind of orphanage housed within an asteroid. So he\u2019s robbing from people who couldn\u2019t possibly need their wealth for the sake of children with nothing, embodying a far more gallant vision of humanity than the actual rules of this galaxy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who tampers with the course of the train is to be executed!\u201d In contrast, the Galaxy Express Administration is swiftly proving itself as heartless as the cyborgs of Megalopolis<\/span><\/p>\n

Love the surreal image of this wooden garden gate they open to come aboard Antares\u2019 asteroid<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Antares is gentle and loving with the children, who all refer to him as \u201cDaddy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He reveals his wife died two years ago. I like the color design for this flashback, conveying the distance of memory by reducing all the compositions to shades of blue and red<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven if your foe sheds tears, show no sympathy and shoot without hesitation if necessary!\u201d The only way Antares can help this boy is through passing on his understanding of the violence of space. Even our gestures of kindness or mutual concern are necessarily preoccupied with the inevitability of violence in this world – when society is organized this way, there is simply no gentler alternative<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

To Tetsuro\u2019s insistence he still wants a metal body, Antares can only laugh and reflect that he felt similarly as a boy, then request Tetsuro visit if he ever comes back this way<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWill you remember me at the end of the line\u201d is already proving itself a key refrain in this show. Can we achieve eternity without discarding what makes us human, the connections to the people who helped us along the way? If our own world is anything to go by, the answer is not a happy one<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if I\u2019m gone, one of my kids will welcome you.\u201d Antares proposes a very different idea of \u201ceternity,\u201d framed around passing his lessons and generosity on to the next generation<\/span><\/p>\n

Antares requests that Maetel stay with him, but takes her rejection in good spirits<\/span><\/p>\n

And back on the Galaxy Express, Maetel protects Antares in turn, ensuring his home\u2019s location is not saved for later reprisals<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI bet he used to be a child like you. Brave, kind-hearted, and full of hopes and dreams\u2026 but life in space is hard.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And Done<\/b><\/p>\n

At last, our brave travelers have made a genuine friend! And wouldn\u2019t you know it, they were only able to find a kind soul by traveling <\/span>outside<\/span><\/i> the lines of this galaxy\u2019s public face, discovering more generosity and compassion among the bandits than the alleged protectors of humanity. After three episodes of tragedies born of desperation or simply man\u2019s inhumanity towards man, it was a welcome reprieve to learn there are still decent people in this world, even if they can only make their way by diverging from the railway\u2019s tracks. It is easy enough to be kind as a child, but it is a hard thing to maintain a gentle soul in a world that demands such hardness of spirit. And so, with at least one friend awaiting his return, Tetsuro travels on to the edge of the solar system.<\/span><\/p>\n

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