As previously teased, the 40th anniversary project site for Leiji Matsumoto’s Galaxy Express 999 sci-fi adventure manga series announced today on September 9 that the manga’s stage play adaptation titled “Galaxy Express 999 ~Galaxy Opera~” is planned to be performed in Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Osaka in summer of 2018.
The story of the stage play is based on the first feature film The Galaxy Express 999 released in August 1979, and the manga author Matsumoto serves as supervisor. series, Kirakira PreCure a la Mode).
Matsumoto’s original manga started its serialization in Shonen Gahousha’s Shonen King in 1977, and its TV anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation started airing in the following year.