AniWorthGinga Tetsudou no Yoru: Fantasy Railroad in the Stars
Introduction
The Celestial Railroad is a fantastic journey of a boy, Giovanni, in a dreamscape created into a colorful full-dome CG animation picture with inspiring background music.
Based on a story written in the early 20th century, KAGAYA, a digital fine artist, has breathed new life into the unique imaginary world using creativity and precise astronomical knowledge.
The starry sky is depicted as the Celestial Field made up of a river, a field of silver grasses, flowers, birds, survey towers, railway signals and more. Across this amazing beautiful scenery, the Celestial Railroad runs along the Milky Way.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.29/10 · 625
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
tacaloking
im surprise there is only positive reviews not because it is necessary bad but this makes a very interesting choice . so i will write a mixed review to show the issues that might result in people deciding not to watch.
story 6
this is something i do feel is done a bit better then the other version. the story pauses just enough for atmosphere but did not linger far to long for its own good. this allowed it to feel like a journey and not like a long train ride. it really did properly go through all the places at the perfect. it kept most of the places in the journey so in that area it does not disrupt core of the story. the one thing that might throw people off is this is more told like a audio book which was a really weird choice.
sound and art 8
this part i will join together as i feel…
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This film is one of the most whole experiences that I've ever had. The film mainly takes us to an astonishingly beautiful and relaxed atmospheric audiovisual journey.
While there is narration of the story throughout the film I'd say that understanding it or even caring about it isn't really important for the experience that is this film. The film itself is more of a audiovisual journey literally through "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" as the title of the film suggests. I'd say this is one of the best and most unique adaptations of a story that I've seen. It is made almost in a way that makes you feel that you were part of the story yourself.
Kagaya did phenomenal job with the visuals and art. Pretty much every scene of the film is brilliantly rendered with a fantastical look and extreme…
Read at the sourceEriolElfwin
This is an extremely beautiful piece of animation, accompanied by marvelous and relaxing music. It is a work of art worth watching even if only for the sceneries and soundtrack.
Here the focus is almost completely on the journey through the milky way, and the story is not presented in its entirety, although it's possible to follow some events. It is beautiful and relaxing, and we do not have here the deep plot conclusions or eerie atmosphere present in the previous movie adaptation. No character is shown, although we can hear Giovanni's and Campanella's voices in many moments in the narrative.
The animation focuses on showing the beautiful scenery of the journey and mostly explaining where they and the train are at each moment, with more precise astronomical information, which is quite i…
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This Movie of The Celestial Railroad show us many stories about the starry sky, the constellations, accompanied by a concise narrative according to every story, every moment is themed magically by the voices of Males, females and kids, transmitting a natural curiosity along the story and pictures.
The animation is showing elements we see everyday and how combines the world we see with the starry sky, to be precise, it become real when the Milky Way is placed at the beggining as the railway, being as well the start of the many different constellations and stories.
Is quite relaxing while watching and listen to it. We are talking a 100% of sceneries, no characters around, counting with different storytellers as main characters, sometimes may feels like a documentary about constellations an…
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