In dieser erweiterten Version der dritten Folge von Galaxy Express 999 freundet sich die Hauptfigur, ein Junge Tetsuro, mit Crystal Claire an, die im Raumzug arbeitet und einen Glaskörper hat.
Er denkt, dass er auch seine Mutter gesehen hat, aber er irrt völlig.
GALAXY EXPRESS 999: "CLAIRE OF GLASS" (aka "Glass Claire," 1980) was a theatrically released anime movie short that retold the third episode of Leiji Matsumoto's "Galaxy Express 999" TV series, a tragic encounter that was also dramatized in a sequence of the feature-length movie spin-off, GALAXY EXPRESS 999 (1979). In the short, young Tetsuro, who is riding the intergalactic train of the title with his elegant older companion, Maetel, becomes smitten with a waitress in the dining car named Claire.