The Puppy Episode

Hello all,
Does anyone know where I can get the blueprints to the God Phoenix? It would help me a lot with the rewrite of the puppy episode.

I have read a lot of the rewrites and reworking of "A Critical moment for the Science Ninja Team. They are all amazing. Most of them fall into the comedy realm.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but, the heart of the challenge is to stay within the guide lines of the story. While, at the same time, eliminating the WTF? moments.

I have been studying our main character, Joe, a lot for this rewrite and have figured out a few things about the Condor. I have been watching the ADV Gatchaman episodes, Japanese with subtitles for this.

Joe is perceived as a rock. Thanks to the great animators for Gatchaman he really isn't. Joe is normally very closed. But when he does emote you can see it on his face.It may be only 1 or 2 frames but it is there.
Joe is very touch sensitive. If Joe really wants to drive a point home he completes it with touch. Jinepi gets a lot of this. Also, the easiest way way to get Joe to drop his mask is with touch. Jun is, really good at doing this to him. Nambu is the only one on the team that can pull Joe's strings with his voice.

I really wanted to post all the pictures I'm referencing in this post but I'm still working out how to do that.

Any feedback would be very helpful.

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You have good insight into the Condor -I look forward to reading your version, Dragonsbain!

Tatsunokofan had once posted some diagrams just of the God Phoenix's bridge, in this thread:

http://www.gatchamania.net/thread.php?postid=43510

But the images are gone now. Someone here might have copies saved, but if I recall, they mostly just showed the seating arrangements and were only of the bridge.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no complete diagram of the interior of the God Phoenix -just the brief glimpses we get in episodes when they're shown going to their g-machines or to the missile bays.

There is this cut-away, but it doesn't show a lot.



(Sorry it's small -I couldn't find it any larger-sized)

Wendy's "Home of the White Shadow" site has been down since early March, though it's supposed to come back once it's been moved.

You can still find it with this link, but it doesn't have any blueprints. It has lots of other useful stuff though.

http://web.archive.org/web/2009050104544....com/gatchaman/

Dragonsbain, I thought this was an interesting observation:

"Joe is very touch sensitive. If Joe really wants to drive a point home he completes it with touch. Jinepi gets a lot of this. Also, the easiest way way to get Joe to drop his mask is with touch. Jun is, really good at doing this to him. Nambu is the only one on the team that can pull Joe's strings with his voice."



Now I am going to have to go back & look at the BotP episodes to see if the same holds true for Jason.

Julie K.

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You have a very good insight of Joe's character, Dragonsbain! I can't wait to see what you'll come up with!

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Hello all,
I finally figured out the picture thing. Now I can show you what I'm talking about.

The first set is Nambu and Joe from "Hell's Speed Race"
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/dc86bed7f9624daeac3f80d053418bc0/px-assets/7bb9e5d5d2ea43a5974eba5dfc9362dd

2 frames later
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/dc86bed7f9624daeac3f80d053418bc0/px-assets/f1075f65d4eb4280820c9b2040b0f89e

Now on to what Jun seems to be able to do. These are both from "Firebird vs. Fire Eating Dragon.
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/dc86bed7f9624daeac3f80d053418bc0/px-assets/69ab8c482b7a4509988cfe0ceba35249

Then the very next frame.
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/dc86bed7f9624daeac3f80d053418bc0/px-assets/fe4c2f374a7949a399238f5777f98ad3

The same basic thing happens between Joe and Jun in GatchII when Joe returns.

Ok this is just a great picture from " Revenge! The Whale Operation"
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/dc86bed7f9624daeac3f80d053418bc0/px-assets/48615c2284d9490aa6fbf0e18490c369

Here is a nice example of Joe getting his point across with touch. This is from the Ibukuron episode.
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/dc86bed7f9624daeac3f80d053418bc0/px-assets/1a625c2b4a0d4a1e8f8bb08df8ae62f3

I hope these illustrate the points.

Be well.

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Even the COndor needs a hug... that's perfect, Dragonsbain!

But seriously, you make some very good points. These are some great insights!

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Hello everybody,
I just submitted Chapter 1 to Gatchafanfic. Hopefully it will be accepted.

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That's great! Could you post a link here so we can find it more easily?

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Good to hear, Dragonsbain!