Galaxy Express 999 is not for people who don't like long anime or older anime. Spanning 113 episodes from '7?-'8? everything about this anime from the episode themes to the music makes you feel like you really are watching this in the late 70's. If you are only wanting the story you only need to watch the first 5 or so episodes and the last 4. Again another common fact of older anime most stories don't take long to tell and are very, very stretched out. Almost every episode they stop on a different planet where an event happens to them that effects Tetsuro's opinionon cyborgs and gaining eternal life.

Also if you are a Captian Harlock fan and are watching this because you want to see how it ties in or want to see Captian Harlock; you should know he's only in one episode, and the only thing him and Tetsuro have in common is that they both have the same type of gun.

Over all I enjoyed watching this anime and it's story but there are a lot of "filler" episodes that failed to hold my complete attention and interest.