Galaxy Express 999 — Season 1, Episode 64: The Holyland of Silence

Episode synopsis

Maetel and Tetsuro arrived at the Planet of Silence, where raising one's voice (beyond a whispering level) was punishable by death. Maetel asked Tetsuro to stay behind while she had to attend to some private business (concerning her "mission" with Tetsuro). Bored and worried, Tetsuro went looking for her. The townsfolk could not tolerate his voice, and was soon caught by the authorities to be executed. He was rescued by Maetel and a woman named Sylvia (in a Good, Bad, and Ugly way). Sylvia revealed that the law was enacted because everyone wore hearing aid to better listen other people's business, a vestigial legacy of a former totalitarian regime. Sylvia's father was executed when he cried for help to save her, when she was still a baby. They were discovered and surrounded. Knowing their weakness, Testuro screamed at the crowd so loudly, that their hearing devices fell out. The planet returned to normal as the train departed with Maetel and Tetsuro on board.

About Galaxy Express 999

In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Ballad of Departure
• E2The Red Winds of Mars
• E3The Resting Warriors on Titan
• E4The Great Bandit Antares
• E5Shadow, of the Planet of Delusion
• E6The Comet Library
• E7The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity - Part 1
• E8The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity - Part 2
• E9Trader's Junction - Part 1
• E10Trader's Junction - Part 2
• E11Nuruba, the Planet Without Form
• E12The Fossilized Warrior - Part 1