Software:Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express

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Short description: Japanese animated short series
Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express
Key visual
銀河特急 ミルキー☆サブウェイ
(Ginga Tokkyū: Mirukī Sabuwei)
Created byYōhei Kameyama
Original net animation
Milky Highway
Directed byYōhei Kameyama
Produced byYōhei Kameyama
Written byYōhei Kameyama
Music byKōhei Doi
Shunpei Ishiguro
ReleasedFebruary 28, 2022 (2022-02-28)
Runtime4 minutes
Anime television series
Directed byYōhei Kameyama
Written byYōhei Kameyama
Music byyuugen6
Kōhei Doi
Shunpei Ishiguro
Original networkTokyo MX
YouTube
English networkYouTube
Original run July 3 (3-07) – September 18, 2025 (2025-09-18)
Episodes12

Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express (Japanese: 銀河特急 ミルキー☆サブウェイ, Hepburn: Ginga Tokkyū: Mirukī Sabuwei; stylized as Milky☆Subway) is a Japanese animated short series directed, written, and self-produced by Yōhei Kameyama. It is a sequel to Milky Highway (ミルキー☆ハイウェイ, Mirukī Haiwei; stylized as Milky☆Highway), a 2022 original net animation also created by Kameyama. The series aired from July to September 2025, broadcast simultaneously on television and YouTube. A theatrical edit of the series was released in February 2026.

Premise

Arrested for violating space traffic laws, the genetically enhanced "super human" Chiharu and cyborg Makina are sentenced to perform community service alongside four other convicts aboard the Milky Subway, a train used for interplanetary travel. When the train is suddenly activated, the group must scramble together to resolve the situation.

Characters

Chiharu Kujo (九条 千春, Kujō Chiharu; usually written as チハル)
Voiced by: Mizuki Fumitsuki (short film), Momoka Terasawa (series)[1] (Japanese); Anja Taljaard (English)
A 23-year old super human gyaru. She is cheerful and easygoing, but also careless and prone to being taken advantage of by others.
Makina Kurusu (来栖 真希奈, Kurusu Makina; usually written as マキナ)
Voiced by: Kana Kobayashi (short film), Anna Nagase (series)[1] (Japanese); Nancia Dorland (English)
A 23-year old cyborg gyaru who is childhood friends with Chiharu. She has a violent and impulsive temperament, which has resulted in multiple assault convictions.
Ryoko Kanzaki (勘崎 両子, Kanzaki Ryōko; usually written as リョーコ)
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu[2] (Japanese); Bella Draper (English)
A human parole officer at the Ginkyo Prefecture Police Department.
Akane Daidoji (大道寺 朱音, Daidōji Akane; usually written as アカネ)
Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto[2] (Japanese); Bella Draper (English)
The super human boss of a bōsōzoku motorcycle gang. She has a quiet but fierce personality, and is overprotective of her subordinate Kanata.
Kanata Iwao (岩男 鉄多, Iwao Kanata; usually written as カナタ)
Voiced by: Makoto Koichi[2] (Japanese); Jada Dreyer (English)
A super human mechanic in Akane's gang. He is aggressive but physically lacking, suffering humiliating pratfalls as a result.
Kurt Cramer (カート・クレイマー, Kāto Kureimā)
Voiced by: Koki Uchiyama[2] (Japanese); Conradie van Heerden (English)
A cyborg who works for a legally questionable protection service. He is impassive and has powerful mechanical arms suited for combat.
Max MacCallister (マックス・マカリスター, Makkusu Makarisutā)
Voiced by: Yoshitaka Yamaya[2] (Japanese); Clayton Alexander (English)
Kurt's cyborg co-worker. He is upbeat and specializes in computer hacking.
O.T.A.M.
Voiced by: Yuri Fujiwara (Japanese); Nancia Dorland (English)
The Milky Subway's deprecated animatronic train attendant, whose artificial intelligence is linked to the train's mainframe computer.
Minami Minase (水無瀬 ミナミ, Minase Minami)
Voiced by: Haruka Sasaki (short film), Yukari Tamura (series)[3]
A popular human idol singer who is beloved by Chiharu and Makina.

Production

Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express is created by Yōhei Kameyama as sequel of Milky Highway (ミルキー☆ハイウェイ), an original net animation he produced as a graduation project and was first published in 2022.[4] Much of the series' production is handled by Kameyama; he serves as director, writer, producer, character designer, modeler, animator, and editor. He used Blender to create the 3DCG, which he learned on his own.[5][1]

On March 19, 2025, it was announced that Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express would be developed as a sequel series to Milky Highway.[1][6] The series premiered on July 3, 2025 on Tokyo MX, with simultaneous streaming on YouTube, including dubs in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, French, Hindi and Russian.[2] "Gingakei made Tonde Ike!" by Candies is used as the series' theme song.[2][7] The final episode also features an insert song, "Tokimeki Meteostrike" (ときめき★メテオストライク, Tokimeki Meteosutoraiku), performed by Yukari Tamura in-character as Minami Miyase.[3]

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Other media

Manga

On September 19, 2025, a comic adaption of the series with the same title by Don Kouya, in supervision by Yōhei Kameyama, began serialization in Shōnen Ace Plus.[9]

Film

On September 18, 2025, it was announced that the series would receive a re-edit with additional content. The film, titled Ginga Tokkyū Milky Subway: Kakueki Teisha Gekijō Iki (銀河特急 ミルキー☆サブウェイ 各駅停車劇場行き; lit. "Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express: Local Train to the Theater"), was theatrically released in Japan on February 6, 2026.[10][11] On May 19, 2026, Netflix announced that it will stream the film version of the series beginning June 1.[12]

Reception

Kara Dennison of Otaku USA Magazine wrote positively about the series. On the setting, which she describes as "at once futuristic and retro", she noted that "We can believe that the characters have lived, worked, and commuted within this world for all their lives and consider it 'normal,'" adding that the use of "Gingakei made Tonde Ike!" as the theme song "brings some honest-to-goodness Showa era feel to this Reiwa-era production". She also praised the "natural feel" of the dialog, writing that the main characters "sound like real people, less beholden to the conventions of anime voice acting".[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pineda, Rafael Antonio (March 19, 2025). "Yōhei Kameyama's Milky☆Highway CG Anime Short Gets Sequel in July". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-19/yohei-kameyama-milky-highway-cg-anime-short-gets-sequel-in-july/.222544. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Cayanan, Joanna (June 25, 2025). "Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express CG Anime Short's 2nd Trailer Reveals More Cast, Theme Song, July 3 Debut". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-06-25/milky-subway-the-galactic-limited-express-cg-anime-short-2nd-trailer-reveals-more-cast-theme-song-/.225982. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cayanan, Joanna (July 1, 2025). "Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express CG Anime Casts Yukari Tamura". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-07-01/milky-subway-the-galactic-limited-express-cg-anime-casts-yukari-tamura/.226199. 
  4. ↑ "『銀河特急 ミルキー☆サブウェイ』完結。実制作のほとんどを担当した亀山陽平監督に制作秘話を聞く | CINRA" (in ja). https://www.cinra.net/article/202509-kameyama-yohei_imgwyk. 
  5. ↑ "【Blender】1枚のイメージから3DCGアニメーション作品へ。『ミルキー☆ハイウェイ』メイキング" (in ja). https://vook.vc/n/4409. 
  6. ↑ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in Japanese). March 19, 2025. https://natalie.mu/comic/news/616281. 
  7. ↑ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in Japanese). June 25, 2025. https://natalie.mu/comic/news/629478. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "EPISODE Ginga Tokkyū: Mirukī Haiwei" (in ja). https://milkygalacticuniverse.com/episode/. 
  9. ↑ "『銀河特急 ミルキーサブウェイ』コミカライズ版が少年エースplusで連載開始。大人気のリョーコちゃんがアニメの5倍はイライラしている…… | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com" (in ja). https://www.famitsu.com/article/202509/52730. 
  10. ↑ Mateo, Alex (September 18, 2025). "Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express CG Anime Gets Theatrical Edit With New Content". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-09-18/milky-subway-the-galactic-limited-express-cg-anime-gets-theatrical-edit-with-new-content/.228948. 
  11. ↑ Cayanan, Joanna (December 3, 2025). "Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express Films's Teaser Unveils Title, February 6 Opening". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-12-03/milky-subway-the-galactic-limited-express-films-teaser-unveils-title-february-6-opening/.231656. 
  12. ↑ Mateo, Alex (May 19, 2026). "Netflix Streams Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express Film on June 1". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-05-19/netflix-streams-milky-subway-the-galactic-limited-express-film-on-june-1/.237527. 
  13. ↑ Dennison, Kara (July 17, 2025). "Milky Subway: Your New Favorite Bite-Sized Anime". https://otakuusamagazine.com/milky-subway-your-new-favorite-bite-sized-anime/. 



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