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Agreed on the video game-like screens. but who the hell is GATCHAMAN?

SIGHUP wrote:

Agreed on the video game-like screens. but who the hell is GATCHAMAN?

don't know if you ever watched a show called G Force?
it used to come on the old CN, it's the dubbed version of GATCHAMAN

SIGHUP wrote:

Agreed on the video game-like screens. but who the hell is GATCHAMAN?

The original 1972 Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman series was followed by two sequel series, Gatchaman II (1978) and Gatchaman F (1979). In 1994, the original series was remade as a condensed OAV series. Additionally, the original and sequel series were adapted and translated into several English-language versions, with the most well-known being Battle of the Planets. Because the English-language versions are notoriously inconsistent not only with one another but also with the original Japanese series, viewers most familiar with the English versions often experience some confusion upon re-examining the series after a long hiatus. Created in the wake of the hugely successful Henshin boom started by Shotaro Ishinomori's Kamen Rider in 1971, this series was notable as being one of the most successful anime attempts to emulate the American superhero genre with many of its conventions such as colorful costumes, powers and secret identities. It also established the convention of the five member hero team that has been emulated in later series, most notably the successful tokusatsu Super Sentai franchise (which was adapted into English as the Power Rangers franchise many years later), in fact, the Sentai series Choujin Sentai Jetman was in many ways a homage to Gatchaman.

Plot and character summary

Best described as a sci-fi action anime, recurring themes of Gatchaman involve conservation of nature, environmentalism, and responsible use of technology for progress and advancement. The series is centered around five young superhero ninja in the employ of Dr. Kozaburo Nambu of the fictitious "International Science Organization" to oppose a group of technologically advanced villains, known as Galactor, from trying to take control of the earth's natural resources. The operational leader of Galactor is an androgynous masked antagonist, Berg Katse, who is later revealed to be a shape-shifting intersex mutant acting on the orders of an alien superior, Leader X. The most common recurring plot involved Gatchaman opposing giant monster mecha dispatched by Galactor to steal or control various natural resources (water, oil, sugar, uranium, etc). These Mechas were often animal based.

The main characters featured always wore either teen fashions with numbered T-shirts showing their rank in the team, or caped battle uniforms styled after various birds.
From left to right: Ken, Ryu, Jinpei, Jun and Joe.
From left to right: Ken, Ryu, Jinpei, Jun and Joe.

Most of the team were in their late-teens, apart from Jinpei who was about eleven. They included: Ken Washio, the team leader; Joe Asakura, his second-in-command; Jun, the team's electronics and demolitions expert; Jinpei, the youngest and reconnaissance expert; and Ryu Nakanishi, the ship's pilot.

They also used various signature weapons and mecha style vehicles which each had a more mundane looking disguised form. To change modes, each member is equipped with a special wrist device that, aside from being a communicator and tracking device, enabled the change when the proper gesture and voice command, "Bird Go!", is given. Their vehicles are docked in the team's main vehicle, the GodPhoenix, a supersonic plane capable of underwater travel and minor spaceflight as necessary. The GodPhoenix is armed with an unspecified but large (roughly 30+) number of BirdMissiles that are fired from a rack system mounted atop the center section. After the original GodPhoenix was destroyed by an octopus-based mecha, an improved version carried a pair of Super BirdMissiles in twin drop down pods from the bottom center section. In addition, when necessary, the plane can temporarily transform into a massive bird of flame like the legendary Phoenix to escape danger although the process is highly taxing to the team.

Shot of the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman/G-Force team in their "birdstyle"/battle uniforms. From left to right: Ken/Mark/Ace, Ryu/Tiny/Hooty, Jinpei/Keyop/Pee-Wee, Jun/Princess/Aggie, and Joe/Jason/Dirk.

Source: Gatchaman @ Wiki

Saludos Lobi

I LIKE THE LOGO...


LOOKS TOCLOSE TO A VIEDO GAME. YOU THINK THEY MIGHT JUST BE SOMETHING CLOSE BUT NOT TO CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL WORK?

Fan since I was a child.

So what happened to the effort that was around 2000 or 2004? The live action commercial when Mark was on top of a skyscraper and jumped down to the ground?

Anyway, thought you might like this pic...




Mesh: By Major Racal, converted to Freespace2 by me...

Animators of CG Astro Boy Shift Gears After Box Office Disappointment



www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/06/2...ffin-now-nailed-shut


Scott Green
June 21, 2011 1:12pm PDT (13 hours ago)


In 2000, artificial christmas tree producer Boto diversified when founder Michael Kao's son Francis opened CG animation house Imagi Animation Studio. After TV series Zentrix and Dreamworks' Father of the Pride, they met with success on the 2007 TMNT movie. (In between, they helped put together the Highlander: The Search for Vengeance anime production). A number one box office open for TMNT and $95.6 million gross revenue on a $34 million budget encouraged them to build a business model around CG movie adaptations of internationally recognized heroes, starting with Astro Boy, with Tatsunoko Productions' Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (aka G-Force or Battle of the Planets) in the pipeline and granddaddy of giant robot heroes Tetsujin 28 (aka Gigantor) under consideration.



2009's Astro Boy earned less than $40 million on versus a $65 million budget, and, in its wake, on February 7, 2010, Imagi Animation Studios closed down. Yet, Imagi Holdings was still in business, and there was the suggestion Gatchaman, produced with outsourced animation, could still be a viable project.



Instead, early this year Imagi decided to bet on Chinese characters Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, along with their related consumer goods. "We choose to buy the copyright of Pleasant Goat because of its influence as a national brand, like Mickey Mouse in the United States and the Japan's Hello Kitty," said Leung Pak To, director and chairman of the company. And, with the purchase of copyright manager Toon Express, Imagi began as relaunch as a character brand company.



IMAGI's Chairman Francis Leung Pak To said, "The acquisition will enable the Group to build a bigger and much more solid consumer products licensing business in Greater China and international markets. Over the past few months, we have formed a new management team and carried out a restructuring programme to focus our resources on Greater China and self-owned animated cartoon brands. We are pleased to report that the restructuring of the Group's previous operations has been completed and its financial and accounting effects have been fully reflected in the results of the year ended 31 March 2011. Moving ahead, TE Group is now our main operating entity and we are now looking forward to a brighter future."



With their 2011 financial results, Imagi announced that they're closing the financial books on Astro Boy and Gatchaman.



-- Excluding the accounting losses due to the redemption of prints and advertising loan, a bridge loan and convertible loan notes, the loss for the year was significantly narrowed down by 89.9% to HK$122.2 million, of which HK$81.2 million was attributable to the provision for impairment loss relating to Astro Boy and Gatchaman

-- The Restructuring commenced in May 2010 (including the above-mentioned provision) wiped the Group's past slate clean. Astro Boy and Gatchaman will no longer have any adverse financial effect on the Group beyond last financial year

Maybe Imagi will have another garage sell with more Gatchaman themed merchandise.

Its a real shame, the trailer they released last year looked really good. Like I posted a while ago, I think it would have done really well as a Battle of the Planets movie in the US. Then it could have taken advantage of the name recognition, nostalgia, and 80's revival movement.

Maybe it was jinxed by keeping bad company, apparently Gatchaman had a distribution deal with HG in the 90/00's and this new movie would have reportedly been distributed by WBs.

At least they admitted that it ain't gonna happen unlike the Robotech LAM which is supposed to be alive and well despite any evidence.