Thankfully, the live-action version of my other childhood anime staple was pretty kick-ass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrApvq1YXw
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I think also it had a US release just as Gatchaman (no science ninjas). So maybe they tried permutations of all these different names to see what worked?
Probably. I hear that all the Zark malarkey was added by the US market because of Star Wars - and wasn’t he voiced by Casey Kasem or something? (haven’t bothered to google)
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And a pretty cool reboot, a few years ago…
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As a kid, I enjoyed the soundtrack, so I wrote to Sandy Frank Productions to ask if recordings existed. And they sent me a little package with a cassette of the music! Ultra-cool.
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“When I was a kid customer service meant something!”
That is a totally awesome story, I would have been overjoyed.
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Because R2D2 and C3PO never rocked theme music like this.
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The memories are flooding back!
He also was a source of exposition for the scenes that had to be cut for content (violence, nudity) considered inappropriate for American kid’s TV.
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Jason was Han Solo before Han Solo
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Another reboot apparently. I recall coming across a more traditional anime looking Gatchaman 2000.
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That video looked unwatchable… but I want to watch!
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Goes to Fiery Phoenix
Same here.
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BotP and Star Blazers what great things to hold your imagination as a child. So crunchy to watch as an adult though.
I will kill you with feather quills! Condor Joe is da beast.
<3 <3 <3
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I wonder how that worked; I mean, each episode re-used the same animated segments repeatedly. If each episode’s battles consisted of the same footage over and over, how did they make a whole feature from it?
Oh, man, that is truly, truly wonderful.
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