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4\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n Compiling all 12 episodes of Yohei Kameyama\u2019s 2025 animated series of the same name, together with additional scenes featuring brand-new supporting characters, this theatrical release of Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express<\/em> is a riotously entertaining science fiction juggernaut that produces more laughs, surprises and innovations in 47 minutes than many feature-length offerings.<\/p>\n Milky Subway<\/em> is itself a sequel to Kameyama\u2019s 2022 graduation project Milky Highway<\/em>, a four-minute web anime short in which the superhuman Chiharu (voiced by Momoka Terasawa) and her cyborg friend Makina (Anna Nagase) \u2013 a pair of tearaway gyaru<\/em>, women with gaudy fashion styles that go against traditional Japanese beauty standards \u2013 are arrested for speeding and destroying police property.<\/p>\n Milky Subway<\/em> picks up the action with Chiharu being interrogated by police officer Ryoko (Mikako Komatsu) in the wake of a catastrophic event that has left Makina damaged beyond repair. She recounts how they were sentenced to a week of community service for their traffic offences, cleaning the carriages of the Galactic Limited Express, otherwise known as the Milky Subway.<\/p>\n Chiharu and Makina do not suffer alone. Condemned alongside them are the cyborgs Kurt (Koki Uchiyama) and Max (Yoshitaka Yamaya), and two members of a notorious biker gang: the young mechanic Kanata (Makoto Koichi) and Akane (Hisako Kanemoto), the gang\u2019s female leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n