Unfortunately, my DVDs got packed away, so I'm going on memory (for what it's worth.) Anyway, I was under the impression that it was a generic "sometime in the near future" setting.

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somewhere around here there's a thread with the teams dates of birth...

I believe the agreement was that Ken and Joe were both born in 1984, which if you add 18 years on, ( I believe that's the canon age for them at the start of series 1) takes you to 2002.

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I am glad you could locate the answer LB.

I suspect TJ would have known the answer as well, only I also know TJ is away at the moment.

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I've written fics specifically taking place today or in the future, but I don't give a date. I let the readers decide.

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And both Mars and Venus have been terraformed.

(Ill give it terraforming for Mars, yes, but a complete Alternative Reality for Venus!)

I think it is a `long` way in the future

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I like the idea we found out we weren't alone in the near universe and maybe learned from those groups. There's Riga, too.

At the end of the OAV, they show a winged figure that Nambu sees that mirrors birdstyle. I always thought that was an alien who provided Nambu with the birdstyle technonolgy to save Earth. A new interpretation?

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I want to think I've come across suggestions, somewhere, that maybe all of Gatchaman is really taking place in a parallel universe where the Earth is somewhat different because its entire history (and future) aren't quite the same as in this universe. That would be one way around the "What year is it taking place in? issue. And the fact that maps shown often don't seem to correspond to real geography, and there are so many places (Utoland, Hontworl, Ameris etc.) and countries that don't exist here, though they often look very familar.

Doesn't help so much with BOTP though, as it seems like it is meant to be our world. I guess the essence of the "What year is it taking place in?" problem stems from the fact that they took a show that pretty believably could have passed for about the year 2001, in 1972, and then added in interstellar travel to planets that appear to have been long-settled by humans (or very human-looking humanoids) with Earth-like architecture and culture. So it only makes sense that it's taking place much further into the future than 2001 (23rd or 24th century seems about right) -but then they never seemed to clearly address that!

That's one thing that bugged me in the comics, the conversation between Mark and Jason in the first comic on a cell phone instead of their bracelets.

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