QUOTES FROM GALAXY EXPRESS 999
Kanon: "...Perhaps you might call me... an 'Eldritch Electrical Faerie'? Feel the warmth?!"
Tetsuro: "OOOH, YEAH!!"
- Kanon introduces herself to Tetsuro
(Future Railway, Vol. 1)
Maetel: "Be careful. Such actions may shorten your life."
- Maetel warns off two guards who wish to inspect her forbidden suitcase of mystery
(Future Railway, Vol. 1)
Maetel: "Too bad you mayn't be served REAL wine or sake, Tetsuro... but do try to enjoy your soft drink - try and think of it as 'cosmo wine'!"
- Maetel takes the piss out of Tetsuro for being under the legal drinking age (in space...?)
(Grand Epic Eternal, Vol. 1)
Shadow: "I would like to have Maetel's face."
Tetsuro: "I would like to have her face? She forgets everything else but still remembers THAT?!"
- Tetsuro is reunited with an old friend, Hotel Manager Shadow
(Engine of Change, Vol. 1)
Shadow: "I'd kiss you goodbye, if I had a mouth for kissing..."
- Tetsuro nearly scores... but loses out again
(Infinite Orbit, Vol. 1)
Mii-Kun: "Meowf!"
- Tetsuro's cat, confused
(Infinite Orbit, Vol. 1)
Conductor: "Three-Nine's next stop is the 'Planet of Barkfish'..."
- The conductor announces yet another exciting layover for the passengers
(The Shattered Solar System, Vol. 2)
Kanon: "If you MUST leave, let's not make the same mistake as on 'Bright-Ring Firefly'..."
- The planet 'Bright-Ring Firefly' exploded shortly after Tetsuro & co. departed from its station...
(Helmazaria, Vol. 2)
Harlock: "In battle, leave your emotions behind! When you fight, become one with the GOD OF DEATH!"
- Harlock gets a little overexcited as he advises Tetsuro on battle tactics
(The Thinking Star, Vol. 3)
Tetsuro: "WOOHOO! Claire, you look like a model when you dress up!"
- Tetsuro, having never seen Claire with clothes on before
(Hellmotheria Station, Vol. 3)
Emeraldas: "Do I look like that kind of woman?"
- A young boy accuses Emeraldas of killing his mother
(Eternal Battle, Vol. 3)
Conductor: "Rest in peace in the bosom of your gods..."
- The conductor lays to rest a small piece of muscle left behind by the Metanoids when they exploded
(Double Planet Guillotine, Vol. 3)
Tetsuro: "If you survive today... if you keep on living... then tomorrow, or maybe ten years from now, you'll be tough! You'll become a man who will never be defeated by circumstance!"
Yurakkuda: "Thank you, but... I'm a woman."
- A case of mistaken identity as Tetsuro meets and pep-talks a being with a strange name from another planet
(The Jewel of Grotesca, Vol. 4)
Tetsuro: "You know, it doesn't look so much like an egg any more..."
- Tetsuro as three-nine departs planet Grotesca
(The Jewel Is Grotesca, Vol. 4)
Maetel: "No natural law applies to the blank belt, Tetsuro."
Tetsuro: "Fun... but inconvenient. I mean, what if I wanted to go to the bathroom?"
Conductor: "N-NOOO! NOT NOW! IT'LL BE A DISASTER!"
- Tetsuro discovers the ups and downs of living without gravity
(Blank Belt Symphony, Vol. 4)
Emeraldas: "I would never kill a mother in front of her children, but there will be other chances."
- A caring Emeraldas casually informs a passenger on what to expect from her the next time they meet
(Planet Chestnut Knight, Vol. 4)
Egotarin: "If you'd like, I'll gladly shoot every other man and woman into the sky... I'd throw them all away for you, Miss Maetel."
- An admirer tries to woo Maetel...
(Disgrace, Part II, Vol. 4)
