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Milky Way Railroad is the 368st chapter of the Doraemon manga series. It was adapted into episodes of the same name in both the 1979 anime series and 2005 anime series. It was also adapted and fully expanded into Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express.

Plot[]

Suneo narrates his experience of traveling on SL train to his friends, leaving them with bad taste as it's impossible for them to go on a same trip like him. After complaining to Doraemon and recieving a scolding, Nobita notices that Doraemon has dropped a "Galactic Express Ticket: Earth to Nebula Hateno".

After getting the unsuspecting Doraemon into telling him how to use the ticket, Nobita annouces to Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo that he'll be going on a trip with the train at the mountain, bragging that he'll bring back a lot of pictures before leaving.

Later that night, Nobita secretly leaves the house with Take-copter and follows Doraemon's instruction by clipping the ticket with a pair of pliers, with Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo arrive to confirm his claim. Before Gian could beat up Nobita, the train arrives and pick ups Nobita, with the conductor allowing his friends to board the train as well despite them not possessing a ticket. Despite being suspicious about the conductor's claim, the four of them board the train which soon leaves for the space. Abroad the train, despite trying to enjoy the scenery, the four's suspicion thickens as except for the conducter and themselves, there is no other person on the train, the conductor's strange remark about there being no more passenger after "that thing" was created, and that the train shall not stop anywhere until it reaches the one and only destination.

Meanwhile, Doraemon finally realizes that Nobita had used his "memorabilia ticket" to go on a trip without telling him.

The train finally arrives at "Nebula Hateno", the planet at the edge of the galaxy where one side doesn't have even a single star in the sky. Realizing that there is no reason to sightseeing at the place, Nobita pleads the conductor to take them back home, but is replied that the train will not be going on any trip against and will be scraped since "that thing" has taken its place. The conductor then gives them a farewell and leaves, trapping the four of them on the planet for the rest of their days. Fortunately, Doraemon, who knows of the trip's destination, quickly arrives and save the four from their predicament with "Anywhere Door", with the narration reveals that it is in fact the gadget that has taken SL Train's prominence in traveling to faraway location, resulting in the latter's abolition.

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Trivia[]

  • According to the chapter, the reason that SL Train of the future is abolished is due to the creation of Anywhere Door. Ironically, this turns out to not be true in Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express as space tour by the train is quite popular. The Anywhere Door is also revealed to have certain limitation in the movie and it being unusable ends up giving the gang more trouble than they already have.
  • Nebula Hateno is played on the "The End of Nebula" (果てのネビュラ Hate no Nebula).
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