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Former TOKIO member Masahiro Matsuoka (49) revealed his walking playlist on the October 18 broadcast of NACK5’s “Masahiro Matsuoka’s Colorful Saitama Frontier.” When a listener requested, “Please play Isao Sasaki’s ‘Galaxy Express 999’,” Matsuoka shot back instantly, “I love that song.” On the 5ch Entertainment & Sports News+ thread, a generational debate broke out over which version of the “999” theme feels more familiar — the Godiego version (from the movie) or the Isao Sasaki version (from the TV anime) — with the discussion drifting into nostalgic reminiscing from the generation raised on reruns.
Sun, Oct 18, 11:43 AM
Former TOKIO member Masahiro Matsuoka (49) appeared on the October 18 broadcast of NACK5’s “Masahiro Matsuoka’s Colorful Saitama Frontier” (Sundays, 7:00 AM). He revealed the anime song on his walking playlist.
A listener sent in this request: “Thanks to my older brother’s influence, I love ‘Galaxy Express 999.’ I love Isao Sasaki’s version of ‘Galaxy Express 999.’ His powerful voice and singing ability are amazing. Please play it on the show.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Doesn't sit right with me
'cause it'll crack me up
To fool the enemy — bald, bald, baaald~♪ (quoting the show's goofy theme lyrics)
Now you get it
For walking it's gotta be Godiego
Read the room, lol (TPO = "time, place, occasion")
Used to prefer the Godiego version,
but as I got older I came back around to Isao Sasaki's
The older you get, the more that extended intro about the "blue Earth" (longer than the TV-size cut) really hits different
Now that's a name I haven't heard in ages
Why's Minami Kuribayashi even relevant to this thread though?
Is Godiego or Isao Sasaki supposed to be the normal pick here?
My Walkman had Minami Kuribayashi on it
Though these days you can just listen on Spotify anyway lol
Guess that's just how Johnny-san trained them.
Never heard that name in my life. Quit making name-recognition threads for washed-up celebrities.
Not really — honestly, like all of Leiji Matsumoto's works,
it got so overused during its short-lived boom that everything about it feels dated now
Wasn't he in Shonen Ninja (a Johnny's idol group)?
I feel that (´・ω・｀)
Left King: "Awawa! Awawawawa!"
and Isao Sasaki did the anime version
"Anime version" is wrong → should be "TV anime version"
Crossing the bridge of stars, let's go now —
time to depart, today the sun rises
not that I dislike it, but
feels like there's some marketing push behind this
if you like the TV version, Isao Sasaki's '999' has long been the obvious pick for most people
Probably more people got into it through the TV version anyway
I'd guess the song's tempo just matches his stride
Yet another
star fades away…
is that the one?
That one's good too,
but that's not it
so I eagerly recorded the Isao Sasaki version and played it for her —
she just laughed at me
That's kind of a nice story lol
Seems like they tried to keep the original melody, but the cheap-sounding instrumentation really shows through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfV8NF5byY
It's got the vibe, lol
Background and context of this topic
There’s long been confusion around “Galaxy Express 999” over the theme song involving Misako Konno. Isao Sasaki sang the opening of the TV anime version (aired 1978–81), while Godiego’s “GALAXY EXPRESS 999” — a massive hit — was the ending theme of the movie version (1979). The Godiego version spread more widely through karaoke and music shows, but for the generation that caught the anime through weekday-evening reruns, it’s the Isao Sasaki version that’s seared into memory. The thread’s split between “it’s Godiego” and “no, it’s Isao Sasaki” comes down to this difference in how people originally encountered the show — and 49-year-old Matsuoka naming the Isao Sasaki version fits with him belonging to that reruns generation. Note: some replies mocking the sexual abuse scandal involving Johnny Kitagawa were excluded from this article.
*This article was compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “Masahiro Matsuoka: The anime song on my walking playlist is Isao Sasaki’s ‘Galaxy Express 999’ — I love that song.”
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