Galaxy Express 999
Viz · 1998–2002 · 5 issues
About the series
In the late 1990s, Viz Media brought Leiji Matsumoto's epic space opera to English-speaking audiences with this five-issue comic series. Following a young boy's journey aboard the titular Galaxy Express 999 train, the story explores themes of mortality and humanity across a vast, melancholic cosmos. While a condensed adaptation, it remains a key entry point for Western readers to Matsumoto's distinctive, poetic vision of space.