Galaxy Express 999

On the road to Megalopolis, Tetsuro meets Count Mecha and watches as his mother is killed.

Tetsuro takes a tour of Mars with a young woman whose desperate boyfriend decides to shoot Tetsuro and steal his 999 pass to get off the planet.

Tetsuro is rescued from a ghost by Claire, a waitress, but in doing so, Claire is blasted into a million pieces; after finally arriving on Titan, one of Saturn's satellites, they go outside and Maetel is abducted.

Antares hijacks the 999, takes hostages and forces them to make an unplanned stop; Antares invites Maetel and Tetsuro into his home.

On Pluto, Tetsuro is greeted by the graveyard's caretaker, Shadow; Shadow transforms into Tetsuro's mother to lure him and kill him.

Tetsuro is surprised by Comet Station's lack of vertical scope; after being attacked, Tetsuro goes to a doctor who tries to force him into buying a mechanical body.