Hi all!
Well, when it comes to the official layout of the God Phoenix's Control Room, these might help.
As for what equipment each person is supposed to handle, that was a lot more vague. Much of the specifics of the controls were left undefined, allowing the writers to have them do anything they needed in any particular episode.
There probably was some sort of logic behind having Joe taking Ken's seat when they went to the Firebird, but it was never expressed in the series. My assumption is that they had a reason for Joe to do this in the first episode, and then it became stock footage and the reasons behind it were forgotten.
When it comes to having the characters in different seats, in particular Joe, Jun, and Jinpei, lborgia88 actually came pretty close to guessing it. It wasn't the Animators who made that choice, it was the Directors.
If you examine the episodes handled by different Directors, you'll start to notice that each Director seemed to have preferences as to who sat where. Fortunately for me, a group of diehard Japanese fans who call themselves "Gatchaman Countermeasure Headquarters" did just such an examination of the styles and habits of some of the main "Gatchaman" Directors, and published a fanzine with their results.
Their research focused on three of these Directors, which might seem like a small sampling until you consider that these three men were the Directors for a whopping 89 of the 105 "Gatchaman" episodes.
For the episodes that "Gatchaman" Chief Director Hisayuki Toriumi handled himself, he tended to prefer having Jun and Jinpei facing the front of the ship, with Joe facing the Super Radar screen. Borrowing an image from the Japanese fans (With English text added in for the sake of the Japanese-impaired), the seating looked like this:
The Episodes for which Toriumi was the Director were #'s 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 18, 22, 28, 31, 35, 37, 39, 40, 46, 50, 52, 53, 57, 58, 67, 68, 71, 78, 81, 88, 90, 92, 94, 95, 98, 102, and 105. This is even more impressive when you consider that Toriumi also wrote the scripts for 5 episodes (#'s 52, 68, 88, 102, and 105) and co-wrote 4 more (#'s 22, 53, 71, and 92, all with Satoshi Suyama). He was the only Director to also work as a Writer on the series.
Anyway, Director Hideo Nishimaki tended to prefer having Joe facing the front of the Control Room, with Jun and Jinpei facing the Super Radar screen. This had them seated like this:
The Episodes for which Nishimaki was the Director were #'s 4, 7, 10, 12, 17, 21, 24, 29, 33, 34, 38, 41, 45, 48, 51, 56, 60, 52, 63, 65, 73, 74, 76, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 93, 96, 97, 101, and 104.
Director Masami Anno tended to follow the same pattern used by Hisayuki Toriumi, so his seating arrangements also looked like :
The Episodes for which Anno was the Director were #'s 5, 6, 30, 32, 35, 42, 44, 49, 54, 61, 64, 69, 70, 75, 77, 79, 82, 87, 91, 99, 100, and 103.
All three of these Directors left Ken and Ryu in the same seats at the front of the Control Room.
Bear in mind that these seating arrangements were how these Directors tended to have things, but were not necessarily a 100% hard and fast rule for any of them.
For the sake of completeness (And in case anyone cared), Fumio Kurokawa was the Director for 10 episodes (#'s 13, 16, 19, 25, 43, 47, 55, 59, 66, and 72), Setsuo Omura was the Director for 3 episodes (#'s 14, 20, and 27), and 1 episode apiece had Director chores handled by Hiroshi Sasagawa (#15), Katsuhisa Yamada (#23), and Kazunori Tanahashi (#26).
As for the Snack Jun, it may seem like the layout of it changes at random, but there really is a fairly consistent nature to it. To the right of the front door, you'll find a couple of tables and chairs (Though there are a few times when these are shown as booths instead of separate tables and chairs), with a painting of mountains hanging on the wall beside them. To the left is the counter with stools in front of it. At the back of the place is a stage for a band, which can be used as a dance floor when the music is provided by the juke box. The space in front of the stage can be used as additional dance floor space, or have additional tables set up for patrons.
Based on observations of the place by that same group of Japanese "Gatchaman" fans, they came up with this as the basic floor plan of the ground floor for the Snack Jun (With the Japanese text replace by me for easier comprehension):
The restroom was really the only part of this that wasn't actually shown in the series. All the rest is based on what was shown on-screen in various episodes.
While I am sure that model sheets for the Snack Jun were created, I have yet to ever see any of them. So, alas, I can't provide them here.
Anyway, I hope this helps!
James
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