Gatchamania.net (http://www.gatchamania.net/index.php)
- [Speak Up!] (http://www.gatchamania.net/board.php?boardid=500)
-- General Discussion (http://www.gatchamania.net/board.php?boardid=2)
--- Favorite One-Shot Character... (http://www.gatchamania.net/threadid.php?threadid=3376)
Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-09-2010 at 14:44:
Favorite One-Shot Character...
Favorites Week continues, and this thread is for discussing your favorite characters who showed up only once (or twice, if you're talking about a two-parter). WHich of these people intrigued you? Which ones did you wish to see again? And yes, you can include the puppy from episode 20 if you want...
I know there's *someone* on this board who loves Koji, and others like the CotW from Iron Beast Snake 828. I think for me, I'd have to say Eva Douglas... a poor victim of Galactor in Gatchaman II. I'm so predictable... 
__________________
Posted by nuni on 08-09-2010 at 16:59:
I would say my favoritie one-shot character has got to be Taro, the St. Bernard from ep. 37. Not exactly a person, but as Ken says, he's the only dog that saved the world!
Posted by yul on 08-09-2010 at 17:02:
Hmmm, may be Rumi? 
It would have been a potential love triangle, if creators had paid more attention to her 
__________________
Breathe in and breathe out
Posted by amethyst on 08-09-2010 at 17:14:
I'll take the puppy! None of the others really stand out to me as being a favorite. Fun to play with in fanfiction maybe, but not favorites.
__________________
Perspective Alters Reality
Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-09-2010 at 17:19:
So, two animals and a few women... I can see what kind of characters we like here! 
__________________
Posted by gatchamarie on 08-09-2010 at 18:00:
The first character that's coming to my mind is Alan! Strange choice, for me, perhaps, but I so wished there could have been more time, and a chance, for reconciliation, and further explanations, and that, for once, Joe would not have had to face such a type of tragedy again!
I have mentioned this character as he has left a huge impact over me, but I won't exclude some of the female characters that had the potential of involving our heroes into some kind of intriguing relationship, either!
__________________
To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!
Posted by RIgirl on 08-09-2010 at 20:26:
Orion! (Or Taro, if you prefer...)
This was one of the two episodes that I actually preferred the BotP version over the original Gatch version. At least Orion lived to see the end of his episode!
__________________
"It is a rare man that is taken for what he truly is...We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream...." Peter S. Beagle
Posted by yul on 08-09-2010 at 20:50:
Oh, I forgot about Cathy! It seems she and Joe match each other.
__________________
Breathe in and breathe out
Posted by lborgia88 on 08-09-2010 at 21:53:
| quote: | |
|
I agree, he's always interested me, with all the past history that he shares with Joe. Actually, all the female one-episode characters connected to Joe tend to interest me a lot, and make me wish there was more time in an episode to flesh them out more fully with regard to where they came from, how they got involved with Galactor (and why they want to leave).
Lucy knows Joe, but we never find out how she met him or how well they knew each other.
Or Maya -what might have happened with her and Joe if she hadn't died?
Or this Devil Star, whose name we never learn (but who was engaged to Alan).
There's a couple characters in Gatch II's ep 21 that have always interested me too -Ken's two classmates from the flight academy he'd attended, Carl and Lisa, who he sees at the reunion. I've always had the feeling, from all the sad, longing looks that Lisa keeps casting at Ken and from Carl's hostility to him, that there must have been some kind of love triangle going during their student days together.
Posted by yul on 08-09-2010 at 22:22:
IMHO, Lisa is incredibly doleful (because of her never-smiling face I even don`t like the episode). I can`t belive that Ken might love such a girl. May be she loved him (as practically all other girls he met ).
__________________
Breathe in and breathe out
Posted by Transmute Jun on 09-09-2010 at 01:57:
He only loved her because she looked just like Jun.
__________________
Posted by PalyNerd on 09-09-2010 at 02:19:
I liked Taro as well. I also liked the guy Jinpei called G6 (sorry cant remember his name or the episode).
Posted by gatchamarie on 09-09-2010 at 05:20:
| quote: | |
|
Good point!
__________________
To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!
Posted by yul on 09-09-2010 at 10:01:
| quote: | |
|
IMHO, there are too many look-like-Jun girls in the series, so it can`t be the only reason
__________________
Breathe in and breathe out
Posted by Transmute Jun on 09-09-2010 at 13:03:
Yul! That's awesome! I love it!!!!!
__________________
Posted by lborgia88 on 09-09-2010 at 21:03:
That's great, Yul! 
I guess this also explains Kena in Gatch II's ep. 32. It was more than just amnesia -she reminded him of Jun!
Posted by Springie on 09-09-2010 at 21:12:
Yul, that's great! One of them is even wearing Ken's shirt!
You know, many of the one shot girls looked like Jun... I always thought that Jinpei's "Maria" looked like Jun with blonde hair...
...and yes, I'm the one who likes Koji...he reminds me a lot of Ken in looks (although Ken is waaaaay better looking), but they give him sort of a Joe attitude...and he'd a great rival for Ken. There was so much they could've done with that character.
__________________
Posted by yul on 09-09-2010 at 21:41:
| quote: | |
|
I think, the explanation is easy, and is called «tatsunoko`s drawing style»
Ðppearances of all good young female characters have much in common.
The same thing is with male characters. Koji looks for me mid-transformation from Ken to Joe.
__________________
Breathe in and breathe out
Posted by gatchamarie on 10-09-2010 at 05:33:
| quote: | |
|
And, this happened to many of the heroes in other Tatsunoko's productions also, finding many of the main characters having a lot in common with Ken!
__________________
To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!
Posted by Transmute Jun on 10-09-2010 at 14:05:
Well in Kena's case, she even had the name like Ken's!!!!
__________________
Powered by: Burning Board Lite 1.1.2c 2001-2004 WoltLab GmbH
English translation by Satelk
Site Coded by Cep