Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Galaxy Railways

*ahem* TRAINS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE No, seriously. Trains in space. They go from steam engines on up, but they are literal trains. In space. With windows that open. From the cabins. Into space. INTO SPACE. WINDOWS. Anyway. I'm going to get hung up on that point again, so I better spit this out quick. Father is a captain of a train called Big One, in the SDF or Space Defense Force. Being a captain, he's always away, so his two sons, Mamoru and Manabu, decide to sneak to the restricted train platforms to see him off. They end up on the train in space, and conveniently this happens to be the time that shit gets real. Let's just leave it at "Yes, seriously, his sons watch as he detaches Big One's engine and suicides into the threat." Fast forward five years, the elder brother, Mamoru, enters the SDF. Spoiler alert, um, he dies too. So then it's Manabu's turn to leave his mother behind and join the SDF. And then on the way to wherever the SDF headquarters is (IN SPACE) they crash through a time rift because the train derails, likely because Manabu and what is likely the female lead don't know how to get past their prides and close a window. That is open. In their cabin. In space. And the time rift takes them back so that Manabu sees his brother die, AND the obento that was packed for Manabu gets left behind with said brother, so that he gets to die with a picture of his family by his side and a mouthful of his mother's home cooking. And that's about the first two episodes.

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