If you loved Galaxy Express 999: The Movie, try Adieu Galaxy Express 999
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Rintaro, and they both carry the bittersweet, epic mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Galaxy Express 999: The Movie, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Adieu Galaxy Express 999 is
Space Battleship Yamato without the camp. Tetsuro is called back to the 999 to confront a dark secret about the mechanized future he once longed for. This animated feature from the early 1980s closes out the saga with elegiac grace.
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