The way the story really starts a young version Manabu Yuuki and his older brother Momaru Yuuki sneak aboard there father Wataru Yuuki's space train nick named Big One. Wataru Yuuki is the captain of a Space Defense Force (SDF) train charged with protecting all of the other civilian trains on the galaxy railway system. Manabu and Momaru sure picked one hell of a day to stow away. The are discovered during a rescue mission of a civilian train that is mysteriously destroyed. Just as the Big One is about to leave a dimensional hole tears open and a fat ass alien ship starts to come through. All of Big One's guns prove to be in effective however and Wataru elects to sacrafice himself in order to give the rest of Big One the necessary time to escape. We then skip ahead in the future I can remember how much exactly but now Momaru is a man and Manabu is well on his way. Momaru has decided to follow in his fathers foot steps and join the SDF much to their mothers disapproval who is still shaken by the death of their father. That all happens in the first episode which ends with a phone call from the SDF headquarters located on a planet called destiny telling Kanna (Manabu and Momaru's mom) that Momaru was killed in the line of duty. Fuck right losing a son and a husband to the SDF this does not however discourage Manabu from following in both his father and brother's footsteps and joins the SDF and is even assigned to his Dad's old platoon (Sirius) and his old train Big One now captained by Manabu's dad's second in comand Schwanhelt Bulge. The other notable members of Sirius platoon include Louise Fort Drake Manabu's romatic interest, Bruce Speed Manabu's partner that prefers to work alone because he thinks he's cursed and kills all his partners, David Young Louise's partner and a wise cracking gambling badass, and Yuki a robot medical officer.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this show wasn't some super cheesy poorly written piece of garbage that I had to pass the time with. Instead I found that Galaxy Railways was quite enjoyable. Now I started in the middle which I have done before and I usually hate the show no matter how good it is if I start in the middle of it. This anime however flowed quite well with absolutely no back story whatsoever. You could literally drop into the story at just about any episode with maybe 4 exceptions and the end and but completely fine filling in the blanks that you didn't know because most of it just uses common sense. It's really enjoyable to watch from the beginning though because you can watch all of the main characters develop and grow. The development of the relationship between Spica Platoon (an all female platoon) and Vega Platoon (an all male platoon) is quite enjoyable to watch change although they aren't in many of the early episodes both platoons play crucial roles in the end of the story. This anime had a really gritty real world feel to it that not all anime can pull off. It also had a fair amount of feel good moments in it to to balance things out but in the end they aren't afraid to kill off main well loved characters or take the watcher down some unhappy roads.
This is another definitely must watch I can't wait to check out the OVA and sequel season to see what they're like I hope they're just as good as this one was.
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