Ginga Tetsudou 999

Tetsurou Hoshino is a young street urchin who desperately wants to replace his human body with an android body, which would grant him immortality and the social freedom the androids have. Normally this is incredibly expensive but it has long been rumored that if you board the Galaxy Express headed for the Andromeda Galaxy, at the end of the line is a planet where they are given out for free. After seeing his mother murdered by an Android Count, he has no reason to remain on his home planet and n...

Ginga Tetsudou 999 initially ended in 1981, however after fifteen years Leiji Matsumoto returned to his series in 1996, moving the internal timeline on one year from where the story had previously drawn to a close.