Gatchaman - Best Superhero Anime
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Gatchaman Anime Review. Gatchaman, Gatchaman 2 & Gatchaman Fighter are Tatsunoko's iconic bird themed superhero anime that would influence numerous Tokusatsu & Super Sentai/Power Rangers. These three shows have been released in English under many names including Battle Of The Planets, G Force & Eagle Riders. The english dub featured in this video is the 2005 ADV Films dub which is the most accurate to the Japanese version. Sentai Filmworks currently has released the original uncut Japanese versions as part of Tatsunoko's 55th anniversary. Please support the official release. Bird Go!!
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The 1972 original series is truly the most influential animation cartoon ever. There is NO cartoon from mid 70’s to the late 80’s that didn’t take from Gatchaman. Voltron/Transformers etc. Still watchable to this day. Complete original series is on ITunes
The best anime of the 70's overall.
Original 70s Gatchaman is excellent. It's kinda slow at fist, but when it gets going it's honestly pretty fantastic. Second favorite 70s anime after Mobile Suit Gundam.
You forgot Mazinger Z
Also, I didn’t like episode 4. It annoys me episode 4 exisists
Not widely known but much of the art done for Gatchaman was done by Yoshitaka Amano, the same guy who went on to do much of the stylized art for the early ff games.
He also did designs for Yatterman & I believe other Tatsunoko properties.
I'm 50 and remember Battle of the Planets from it's first screening.
Dang that's some cherished memory. The only thing I can clearly recall from my youth was the premiere of Digimon & Beast Machines on Fox Kids.
@@THEAnimeHERO Battle of the Planets was always the last cartoon to show on weekday mornings and I'd always dawdle to make sure I didn't miss the last 10 minutes. :)
I’m 45 and I’m enjoying the Gatchaman episodes on UA-cam.
What made Gatchaman and other Tatsunoko shows work so well was that their designs were heavily influenced by American comic books but still a Japanese atheistic to them, which is why their 70s designs are my personal favourite Anime character designs along with Miyazaki Studio Ghibli designs.
Also if Mazinger Z could be considered a superhero anime then UFO Robo Grendizer fits the bill nicely since Duke Fleed the main character has a secret identity
Badre Bally and Duke fleed has a smilliarities to Ken the eagle
I loved the Tatsunoko 70s designs...which actually originated in 1967's Speed Racer
I always thought the super robot animes are like sub genre of the anime super heroes.
The Gatacgaman anime does look it stand out more from other 70s anime of the same genre.
An underrated gem. Still relevant to this day.
Gatchaman is always my all time favorite super hero anime
Fun fact Alex Ross is a big fan of gatchaman
I see his art work my God it's glorious
Yep and him doing a Graphic Novel version of Gatchaman would be something
Me to
@@popculturefanxxi4391 He did some of the covers for the comic book series in 2003, but Wilson Tortosa did the artwork. A great series.
Thank you, for every word of praise. I grew up watching G-Force and Battle of the Planets and its still classified as one of the goriest things I had ever seen as a child, and that included a lot of late 80's early 90's blood horrors. It made a mark on me I'd never forget and even watching the English Version, I was intelligent enough as a child to go "wait... something's horribly wrong?" My first 3 years of exposure (and life, Air Force) was of Taipei Taiwan and its television, when I came back to the states, I still remember the name Udi Techen Gong, yet no one state side has a clue however G-Force looked close enough even if Voltron would later wander along. My Asian initial exposure to their pop culture allowed me a culture shock moment when I saw the later mangled translations that they tried to entertain American kids in the 80's with animation clearly targeting adults, while we were suffering from Saturday morning Cartoon and sugar coated sugar coated marshmallow cereal rush. When I was 18 and got the Japanese versions, I was such a happy contented conspiracy theorist.
There is no meter Y.
Considering that Gatchaman came out 3 years prior to Super Sentai I'm willing to bet that Gatchaman was a key influence for that show, and considering how much this show has either directly, indirectly, or are just plain referenced to Gatchaman directly in some easter egg fashion I'm surprised that not many Anime people bring it up more often, I mean even Teen Titans has a reference as well as freakin Shadow Hearts Convenient, not to mention it's possible that Super Sentai would have been drastically different (or possibly not created at all) if it wasn't for this show
I watched this show when I was a kid. Was my favorite when I was in kindergarten. Crazy how long ago this was.
I was born in 1978 and I like Gatchaman better than One piece.
Still love this show. Grew up on G-force and Battle of the Planets. When I got older, I looked up the orginal and love it as much as I love the dubbed series!
I started watching battle of the planets and then I just watching Gatchaman. Gatchaman is way better than battle of the planets. They left a lot of good scenes on battle of the planets.
@@legendaryTMNICO true. Darn censorship lol
Wow, for someone that didn't see it as a youngster, I think you hit the feeling right on the head! I've always wanted to catch up with the original series, I watched Battle of the Planets and G Force as a third grader in 1977. EVERY kid of my generation knows and loves this show. Thanks for tying everything together!
Same here in the UK, although a fews years later 80-85!
Your knowledge of this anime made me subscribe considering your age and how in depth you went to analyse the episodes.
I was a fan of the versions I saw in the UK and loved the animation for a TV series.
It's only in the last couple of years that I ever found out that I had been watching a heavily sanitised version, which only goes to show how good the original material was.
Thank you. I'm writing some material comparing Battle of the Planets, G Force & the original Gatchaman. The video will focus solely on Joe The Condor since most of his episodes weren't in the Planets version. Gatchaman was definitely a superhero story ahead of its time even when compared to Japanese & American heroes.
I was just the right age for the American port in the late 70s and early 80s and it’s amazing how much it shaped my view of adventure cartoons.
I grew up in the 90's so lately I've been exploring 80's cartoons. I completed He-Man, She-Ra, Bravestarr, GI Joe & TMNT. I'm nearly done with Thundercats & The Transformers.
The first one I saw was Battle of the Planets. I saw that in 1981-1982. It became my all-time favorite animation. For me, it was very personal as I found out later on when the leader of the G-Force was separated from his family. I am an adoptee and I cried when the leader found out who his father was.
That's sad to hear, sir. I hope things are well for you in these days. Gatchaman was one of the best things that Tatsunoko had to offer & some of it's family dynamics are also found In Casshan 1973 & even in Speed Racer with Speed & Racer X.
This video has given me far more incentive to check the series out, especially after hearing it's tied with HNK for your number 1 favorite anime.
I think one of the reasons why they didn’t have Jinpei fully mature was because as a child character, he was relatable to the younger audiences and I think that’s great. I’m currently 16 and he’s always been my favorite in Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets. I do wish he had more focus episodes later on. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk lol.
You're welcome. I guess that could be a possibility for the lack of Jinpei's growth. That could also be the reasoning why Ash Ketchum doesn't age.
@@THEAnimeHERO God don't get me STARTED on Ash Ketchum
Thanks Anime hero watching Gatchaman now cause of this video I hope you do more videos like this for the other Tasunoko shows
They had these in reruns in 70s, because I was born in 72 and I remember seeing them.
I agree with all of your points
It may not be perfect (then again what is?) but _Gatchaman_ (the original series and the 90's OVA anyway) definitely embodies what a true superhero series should be Japanese or otherwise
And the less said about _Crowds_ and _Infini-T Force_ the better
You mean like Bunches Of Gundam series,Or Macross Series? Like Kamen Rider Series that Has BUNCHES of Version?
Ok, I understand But in my point it is Still not acceptable. Let's Just Keep watching The Original And Enjoy it :)
Note For a Fact Will Smith is a Fan of Gatchaman
Clint Eastwood Loves Jotaro from Jojo Bizarre Adventure
Christopher Washington The more you know
and John Cena likes Fist of the North Star
@@dcb99filmz hulk hogan loves one piece.
@BEST DOG Tobey still owns the rights to Macross.. I think.
NO! A GatchaMANLY FRIENDSHIP!
Beauty that.
I was fortunate enough to be cast as the voice of Joe in the ADV Films full release of Gatchaman. I had seen G-Force when I was a kid in the 70’s and early 80’s and loved it back then, so I was so excited to get to voice the coolest character in the entire Science Ninja Team! It was a treat to run across your video. There doesn’t seem to be much about Gatchaman on UA-cam. Great job, and “Bird Go!”
Episode 4 annoyed me. A lot fans hated it
You did an awesome job dude, I'm a zoomer that just discovered this series and I'm glad you guys did the English dub, made it easier to get into it and it was excellent, probably one of the better English dubs I've ever watched.
@@benjaminbaker3446 thanks! It’s truly rewarding to hear this kind of thing.
Woooow! I was introduced to this group as Battle Of The Planets, G Force back in the mid 70s! I did later find out that the show was called Gatchaman and that there were many scenes considered to be too violent for kids like myself at that time. So they did a lot of cutting and filled time with that 7 Zark 7 robot. But I see from this video that we missed a LOT of story and important stuff!! Even their names were all changed!! I kinda feel robbed!! 😅 I'd sure like to get hold of the whole English version that You showed clips of in this video.
I can't seem to find Science Ninja Team Gatchaman right now when I know it was available for streaming before. Sites such as Hidive, & VRV have the sequels Gatchaman 2, Gatchaman F, the original dub of Battle Of The Planets but not the 2005 dub that was featured in this video. The series was released in a complete 105 episode sets both in DVD & Bluray but that too is out of print. It was origianlly released by ADV Films & later by Sentai Filmworks.
Gatchaman is the grandparent of Super Sentai without Gatchaman we don't have Sentai or Power Rangers.
I’ve been struggling watching this show to finish it until GatchaF. This is the best superhero anime ever. Along with 009. My hope for this anime is A good remake in the future.
Excellent breakdown! I've been a fan of Battle of the Planets since the early 80s. This piece presented an intelligent summary of the series. Well done.
Thanks, I was very impressed by the show.
Nice review. I first saw Battle of the Planets which was pretty groundbreaking for American TV at the time. I loved that show. I later found out it was a butchered up re-dub of Gatchaman and watched some of those. Certainly better. This cartoon (anime) probably influenced everything that followed for decades. I often ask the 20 something year old anime fans if the've ever seen Gatchaman and they haven't even heard of it.
I remember in the 2000's anime fans were more acceptable of older anime hence why dubs were made for the original Mobile Suit Gundam, Lupin The 3rd Part 2, & Saint Seiya. Actually I feel certain around 2010 and earlier are starting to get lost in anime fandom. Anime such as Gungrave, Basilisk, Claymore, Black Lagoon, Samurai 7, Gankutsuou, Speed Grapher, & Gantz to name a few.
Nice insightful commentary. I've been watching anime since the first American wave in the 1960s (Astro Boy, Gigantor, 8th Man, and Speed Racer), and watched Battle of the Planets when in originally aired in syndication (grimacing through all those Hanna-Barbera insert animation scenes with 7-Zark-7, ugh!). So yeah, I'm an oldtaku. It's good to know that some people of a younger generation out there still have good taste and can appreciate the foundations of the anime industry as we know it today.
I'd recommend Cyborg 009 if you haven't yet watched it. It's very much like the anime equivalent of the X-Men. The heroes are all cyborg super-soldiers (instead of mutants), each with a special power, and each from different countries. They rebel and fight against the evil merchants-of-death organization that created them (so they're sort of like Weapon Xs), but it has very much the feel of X-Men (coincidentally created at almost the same time), in that they become a family who can only rely on each other. Gatchaman is still #1, though!
I have seen some Cyborg 009, mainly the entire 2001 anime which is now available on SD Blu-ray. I wish they would come back in 2d as lately all of their new material has been in 3d cgi which could be better. Their last animated appearance in Cyborg 009 VS Devilman had some really great redesigns. I seen a few episodes of the Battle of the Planets version & I understand what you mean with the inserted animation of playing pong & hanging out. Susan had a really sultry voice. BOTP really watered down a great show. Gatchaman was surprisingly very ahead of its time covering horrific casualties & superhero tension before stuff such as 90's animated series. It really did a lot for superheroes in general but often goes unnoticed.
@@THEAnimeHERO I know what you mean about the 3Dcgi -- it has this kind of "puppet-y" look to it. I guess we should probably get used to it though, as it seems like we'll probably be seeing more of this type of anime in the future. That said, I thought Cyborg 009: Call of Justice was really good, especially in how it was written. You do get used to the CGI the longer you watch it and it becomes less noticeable. The anime movie version was not so good -- the script there was pretty impenetrable, with tons of loose ends and unanswered questions. Overall Call of Justice is a pretty good modern redesign which still acknowledges the series' past.
I remember watching battle of the planets and g force while growing up. Being 49, your video brings back great memories!!
Thank you for the compliment, sir. I've been wanting the series to come back but its hasn't happened.
I ise to love this carlton as a kid...brings back memories.
I LOVE GATCHAMAN! As a kid I couldn’t get enough! STILL MY PERSONAL FAVORITE!
Battle of the Planets was a mixed bag, in my opinion. The deletion of the certain Gatchaman scenes were reprehensible, and made some episode totally non-sensical. However, the voice-dubs were very good, and the Hoyt Curtain soundtrack was exceptional. I'd like to see a live-action big budget version that manages to blend the best of both shows.
I've seen a few episodes of Battle of the Planets. What's odd is the early batch did some show deaths such as the Mummy episode but as it kept going deaths and violence were reduced drastically. I do prefer Casey Kasem's performance as Mark/Ken. His grief for Red Impulse/ Col Cronos was his standout performance to me.
The episode with the astronaut's shuttle, the giant head sculpture of Jesus being corrupted towards evil ends, and Joe's return to his hometown were some of my favorite episodes. The common element? Positive religious imagery themes in the face of evil and hardship.
I have some hidden childhood memory of this show and it took me like 25 years to figure out what it was actually called
I'm right there with you as it took me almost 40 years to find out what the show was called and now we know. Battle of the planets. I remember watching this when I was in first grade. I remembered some of the characters like keyop, tiny, and 7 zark 7 but never could remember any of the storylines or anything else about it and now that I have it on dvd, I can revisit it.
Great video! I grew up in the 1970s, so Battle of the Planets was my great TV love. There was something weird though, as I often wondered why an alien planet had airports and passenger jets and looked exactly like Earth, lol! I had no real clue about it being a Japanese series...i just knew I loved it. I still remember those debates with school buddies about Zoltar's long blond hair. Could he be a girl? That bothered me, lol!
Fast forward many years to adulthood. I had forgotten about Battle of the Planets. When watching some other anime we rented, there was a commercial at the start for something called Gatchaman (the 1994 OVA). Of course I went out and rented it. It struck a memory and i realized that it was indeed Battle of the Planets. I was befuddled over the villain being androgynous, though. I went to the public library to use the internet and I began reading everything I could about Gatchaman. I explored epusode synopses, character bios, fan pages, anything I could find. Wow, what a world i had uncovered, complete with many episodes that never made it to Battle of the Planets, as well as two sequel series!
The series was impossible to find. I got a bootleg of Gatchaman the Movie, but it was a seventh generation tape and near impossible to watch. I could listen, though! I got some bootlegs of the last four episodes of Gatchaman II and the first four of Gatchaman Fighter. The quality was pretty good, but those subtitles were not the best and flashed on and off the screen too quickly. I wanted to obtain someJapanese laserdiscs since I had a LD player, but they were too pricey.
Eventually, I found the entire first series in three DVD sets from China. These were made from the Japanese laserdiscs, so the quality was great. They were nicely packaged too with great box art. The subtitles, though, were very inconsistent and laughable. Oh well, what can you expect from Chinese people translating Japanese to English!!!!!! They were good enough for me to follow the stories.
I was very excited when ADV released the series with a new English Dub, with the option for Japanese audio with subtitles. The new cast did an amazing job, and the translation was extremely close to the original. Usually American dubbing sucks, but here they went out of the way to preserve the original vision, though that did not stop them from inserting a little in joke here or there!!! Of course I got the whole set, the original releases in individual volumes. I remember having to wait for each batch of volumes to get released! I really wish that they all could have done G2 and GF as well.
Gatchaman II and Gatchaman Fighter episodes are available on UA-cam, lovingly translated and subtitled by a great fan. If you can't afford the discs, that is a good alternative.
The versions I used here were from the Sentai Filmworks release of G2 & GF but they were not from the bluray versions. The Sentai release of the first Gatchaman series is the same from the ADV Films but with a picture quality. They even kept the bonus features. I was very impressed of the writing from a 1970's superhero which predates the stuff America wanted to do with their superhero shows & weren't able to till 1992's Batman The Animated Series.
My all time favorite. Thanks for reviewing!
Oh my goodness I remember this.
As I recall, in “Battle of the planets“ mode, Jinpai was called Keyop and was grown in a laboratory and has no real mother or father, he had a strange mechanical way of speaking and it was insinuated that he may not have been human, let alone a child..... not sure
Keyop in "Planets" was not human. I think he was artificially made & that was the reason why he has a birth defect. I believe it was an attempt to make the series more alien. In my head, I think that decision was made because of Jinpei's weird face or maybe there was some rule preventing having a child in peril? No idea.
We hated Keyop with a passion! LOL
I think I heard the original character swore like a sailor, so they had to replace it with his chirping and sputtering sounds.
In addition to Gatchaman, Mospeada & Dangaio are another two great anime series.
great job as always man
I first discovered Battle of the planets in 1980 I was 11 years old. The show was put on the air at 7:00 in the morning on Sunday of all times no one ever got to see it I found it because I stayed up all night against my parents' wishes and found it Sunday morning. I would kill to see every episode of the gotcha Man series. My only version I've seen is Battle of the planets and that's all cut to hell! Again I would buy every episode of gotcha Man uncut if someone would tell me how!
Currently working on Gatchaman II... and good lord is it a step down from the original in terms of animation and design quality.
From that point onward designs do change drastically. Most enemy weapons have a ufo-ish look. In Fighter it goes back to the iron beast mechas but they follow a more toyetic look. Their ship in 2 is very bird theme but it looks better than their Gatha Spartan in fighter which lacks creativity but the Gatcha fencer is cool. Part 2s storyline does get heavy with drama by its finale and has a lot of Joe moments.
THE AnimeHERO THE AnimeHERO I'm aware. It's just that... well the designs went from practical if a bit outlandish/futuristic to toyetic and downright silly. Also WTF thought making Ryu's weapon a damn booger was a good idea?! And I MUCH prefer Ken's birdrangs to the fricken frisby. That said it's the New God Phoenix's that is the most jarring... and it's not so much the design itself that is the issue, but rather the paint job. They took a good design and utterly RUINED painting it to look like a bird. The thing looks like a MASSIVE CHICKEN as a result. Had it kept the original's color scheme the thing would have looked incredible. Honesty a LOT of this show's mechanical designs feels like a bunch of random toys from other series sticker slap rebranded to be Gatchaman toys. And that's the problem with the designs... the feel like TOYS rather than serious vehicles and weapons. As a result they clash and feel completely out of place and at odds with the rest of the series and the admittedly stronger and more serious narrative. If not for the stronger narrative I probably would have dropped it. That said Fighter is the one I'm really looking forward to. As while still toyetic the designs definitely feel less like toys clashing with everything else else around them.
PS RIP Berg Katse... yeah he was an evil bastard. But god was he a gloriously hammy and lovable one. Also I just loved his increasingly desperate and exasperated responses to to the incompetency of his men. Was fricken hilarious. Plus you really can't help but feel sorry for him at the end. Dude really did get screwed over in life.
PPS what is with Leader X's obsession with Mutant Shemale Underlings? In 1 he combine twins into one. In 2 he mutated a little girl into one.
4:10 every rpg hero and Npc relationship
Don't forget the music. The original music was pretty great for a cartoon. Though you have to watch the show to hear it all as the soundtrack CDs are not complete.
I think I still have a few DVD's of Gachaman that came with both, Battle of the Planets, and G-Force dubs.
i like gatachaman alot. the 1994 oav's are my favorite.
I am old enough to have watched the original 'Battle of the Planet' as a kid and I remember loving it. I even bought the Golden Key comics that came out. It wasn't until I saw some Gatchaman toys from Japan on Brick Mantooth's UA-cam channel (highly recommend watching if you like 70s toys) that I found out about the original anime. I am currently working my way through the original series so stopped watching your video to avoid spoilers but look forward to coming back to it when done.
I didn’t like episode 4. One of the worst Gatchaman episodes
Born in 1970 in L.A. and I watched Battle of the Planets from around 1978 thru 1984 every morning at 630 or 7a before I would go to school. Then they moved it to 330 so I had to watch it after school. It came on as a package with Speed Racer. By 84 it was gone and replaced by ROBOTECH!
Both Speed Racer & Gatchaman are from Tatsunoko which would explain the package deal. When I grew up in the 1990's, I hardly got see stuff before I went to school. I think there was some Ninja Turtles during the red sky season. When I came home, I'd watch Fox Kids which had Batman, Beast Wars, & Spider-Man which I saw a lot of. Nowadays I'm catching up on stuff that I didn't catch or was before my time such as Star Trek, Dinosaurs 1991, Duck Tales, etc.
I was born in 1978 and I like watching the Gatchaman episodes on UA-cam.
Joe was the only reason I payed attention to the wii. Talking about japanese style superheroes, I recommend Gekko Kamen (Moonlight Mask), the 1972 anime series. It was very popular when I was a kid and is only 39 episodes; it has a villain that looks too similar to Devilman. 3:23 Nice to see Golden bat referenced, the FIRST comic book superhero.
I do my research. During 2017 I was really into exploring superhero anime & I need to get back to that at some point. I'm aware of Gekko Kamen but no English translation exists. I can understand spanish but I would have to look around for it. I mention the Devilman look-alike in my video of TOP 10 Devilman References. ua-cam.com/video/VByIQwAyrd8/v-deo.html
Where can I watch the 70s Moonlight mask show
@@dabestyoutube5433 There are episodes in youtube but they have the spanish dub, abd there are torrents with the whole series but I think they're in Italian.
@@heroesytumbas Welp
Guess I'm learning Spanish
I remember running 🏃🏾♀️ home from school to see this on tv in the late 70’s
Thank you for sharing. Usually the stuff I wanted to see happened when I was at school. My mom had to record the cartoons I wanted to see.
@@THEAnimeHERO LOL, just goes to show how much the world has change, we had no VCR’s so if you didn’t get home in time you just missed it. 😂
This was perfectly awesome!
You should someday watch Super Sentai shows, especially the ones from the 80s and 90s. I'm sure you would love them.
I never got the chance on watching Battle of the Planets but I was grateful enough to have a chance to watch G-Force when it was aired in my country around the late 80's. It's funny I was exposed to Super Sentai - specifically Bioman first before G-Force. Adding my love for super heroes back then, Gatchaman became one of my favorites.
I need to revisit Gatchaman & look back at the Joe The Condor episodes. My first superheroes I was exposed to were Batman 1989, Robocop 1987 & TMNT 1990.
This and Thunderbirds 2086 used to come on super early on Saturdays, like 4:30am when I was very young. I have very foggy memories of watching them.
Thank you for sharing. It's not really an anime that current people talk about fondly.
Battle of the Planets was my first Anime I ever watched. I was probably 7 or so and had to get up ungodly early to catch the show lol
8 Man After is my favorite anime of all time
The nuclear shadows are just eerie. They exist in real life. Go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Good news gatchaman mad cave comics are out. They are awesome.
Grapeman 10/10 would "watch" again
The Best Anime of ALL time.
the way you describe ken and joe's friendship reminds me of jeph loeb's superman/batman:public enemies. two heroes, very professional, respect each other despite their differences and work together for the greater good. looking out for each other's best interests and at times out-"hero"ing the other
The only thing about Public Enemies I experienced was the animated film. Although I also prefer how they worked in Justice League. Ken & Joe reach similar opportunities although you have to dive deep into the series to experience those episodes.
@@THEAnimeHERO the animated movie left out alot of good stuff from the original story. Good stuff including superman and batman's individual narration boxes which are really fun to read and compare to each other with tons of cool quotes and insight. Other things like are somewhat small but really fun differences and big differences that put more perspective into the story. example: lady shiva attacks batman outside the whitehouse in both comic and film, but in the dc comic universe, shiva previously hospitalized catwoman, making batman's knockout punch much more meaningful.
@@armoredvistitor2197 Thanks for the clarity.
The engineer in Gatchaman F was Saburo Kamo.
Battle of the Planets and Voltron were my childhood ❤️
I haven't seen the show, but I remember seeing it on a demo Luci Christians work. She played a pervy young boy.
She does play some extras in the show but her main role was JInpei aka G4.
Is this Jimpei? ua-cam.com/video/Rrrz-izHMz8/v-deo.htmlm27s
Oh yeah the name was at the bottom of the screen
Yeah that's from one of the many Jinpei episodes of the 1st series. That's actually one of her earliest male roles she's done along with the other clips. I find it odd the demo doesn't feature one of her more assertive voice roles being Elle Ragu in Shadow Skill 1998
I have heard rumors that the main villain of Gatchaman F, Egobossler was apparently the inspiration for the main villain of Jetman.
Battle of the planets was one of my favorites besides voltron , robotech , tekkeman blade
I didn't get to see it as a kid as I was born in the 1990's.
Yeah Galactor was responsible for the deaths of millions, it was also shocking to see in G2 when they started an earthquake a little girl aboard a train was looking out in awe then turned to terror as we see lava flow with only her Teddy Bear remaining.
Yeah, I was surprised how evil those guys were, I was expecting a goofy power rangers type villain, but these guys are legit terrorists. One of the more fucked up evil organizations in anime.
Battle of the Planets was my friends and my fav cartoon at the time, followed by Star Blazers. I remember we all hated Keyop and 7-Zark-7 (Hey, it's the man who owns Mr Ed!) for some reason, but after watching some eps I downloaded, it's obvious that the latter was added as filler and used to convince the children that no one was ever killed by those giant monster attacks. I didn't realize this show was a remake, a la the Power Rangers, until much much later, though I learned Keyop's stupid speech impediment was filler for his long stream of obscenities. One of these days, I need to watch the original.
The original uncut Gatchaman series is still available on Blu-Ray although it's a very expensive set.
Supposed to be out ,30th of this month but its out early
I am 50 today; but in the 1970s as a child,,,and Canadian,,,I knew this as Battle of The Planets - and it was the best cartoon to watch,,,I would not move from the TV,,,I loved them being known as G-Force - it makes sense the name - G-Force - Gatchaman may be the original name; but makes me laugh,,,cause it sounds more like gotcha - so as a fan.......I like the G-Force style....however, that being said,,,,I am happy to listen to the history of all of this and rather not surprised it became a controversy as I would see from time to time, as I had a father with Satellite TV,,,would note the other titles and going; why are they changing the name? okay,,now it makes sense; but oddly, the 7-Zark-7 slip-ins were just fun - but I always liked the sensitivity of the show, to show it as kids getting the job done as any superhero show,,,this show, just had class.
fuck yeah it's worth watching. agent 6 episode alone makes this series amazing.
Out of nowhere “THE ENDING REMINDED ME OF THIS WHEN ALL THIS BAD STUFF HAPPENED I DONT KNOW WHAT SPOILERS ARE”
I love Battle of the Planets aka Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. So sad it's underrated.
It's a real miracle that the series was properly dubbed in the mid 2000's and completed the original 105 episodes. I've been hoping to see Gatchaman 2 & Gatchaman F to get the cast back together but so far it hasn't happened.
@@THEAnimeHERO I heard Gatchaman fighter was terrible so that one I'll avoid like the plague
One of my favorite of all time
Yes well worth it getting it came out last week
Great review AnimeHERO, it really inspire me to watch Gatchaman.
Also, I need to say this to you, don't watch Tekkaman Blade II e.e
- V.D.
Joystick Suicida virgin flush got me...
You never grew up with the re-runs on Cartoon Network? I'm 26 and I saw the re-runs on TV in the mid 90's.
I didn't have cable till the late 2000's when Naruto barely started airing on Toonami & One Piece was still done by 4kids.
Good review. really enjoyed it
Another great anime franchise
At 7:15, were these scenes added back into the unedited in uncut releases or collection sets that Sentai film works released
Yes. Any set from Sentai FIlmworks uses the uncut Japanese footage.
the 1994 ova is all you need to get into this show
The OVA's cool with their slick costume redesigns! Joe in black was a very cool update. 😎
@@THEAnimeHERO makes gatchaman a bit edgy too I feel wish it was longer
The first gatchaman is the best .....period!
Not a bad review, but I would've liked to have seen subtitled clips from the 1972 TV series, instead of English dubs. Subtitling brings out the flavour of the original story. 😯
Gatchaman is an anime version of Avengers and Justice League
GATCHA MAN SHOULDVE had a side scrolling BEAT EM UP LIKE STREETS OF RAGE!
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He's wearing a Pengu costume.
Great vid man.
If you loved gatchaman may I suggest voltes v? It has allot of the same appeals as gatchaman especially with the cast of characters it has and how emotionally powerful the story is at the end.
Hellkaiser also Golion/Voltron
Your younger than me? I thought you were my elder mentor.
I grew up with Battle of the Planets, eventually seeing the complete original shows and loved them more. Did you ever go through the Galaxy Express 999 shows? Or the Space Battleship Yamato?
I only seen the movie for Galaxy Express 999.
Ken, Joe, Jun and the Boring 2.
I watched thisnseries to kill time back on the 2010s along with Voltes V
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And a plumber named Mario
you forgot to mention that there was a 1994 modern anime version just called Gatchaman
That was the 3 episode OVA. I really liked the costume redesigns but wasn't a fan of the out of costume looks.
I really like the OVA I thought it was awesome
The OVA had some great costume redesigns.
Go, Gatchaman! Go!
Whelp time to add another show on my list of anime to watch. I want to know if there is a legal way of watching this entire series online?
As far I checked there doesn't seem to be an official streaming of any sort. I did find dead links for Hulu. Sentai Filmworks currently owns the series but they don't seem to have any streaming rights from what I can tell. Admittedly, I watched a few early eps on websites and saw the rest by buying the dvd sets. The 1st series has a blu ray release but its very pricey for 105 eps & lot of bonus features (actual commentaries, interviews & very hard to find stuff about the series). The blu ray also comes with 3 ep ova from the 90s. Gatchaman 2 & F are sold separately with sub only. There's also a recap movie version covering events of the 1st anime but it just recycles animation from the series.
I did some digging. Sentai does stream the series on the website HIDIVE. They actually both Battle of the planets (85 eps) & the original Gatchaman series (105 eps) www.hidive.com/tv
I think you need an account to watch certain shows. www.hidive.com/account/signup?campaign=sentaititles&source=www.sentaifilmworks.com
THE AnimeHERO I really appraicte the research you put into this just to help me and other watch this series online and on the right site. It sucks that I have to have an account but at least I know there's a place to watch the original series. Thanks again hero!
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which dub would you prefer?
I never watched Gatchaman before.
Jinpei grew up to be Zeppeli
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