How Did YOU Come to Gatchaman?

Yes, here's the poll to find out how we came to Gatchaman.

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Benefits, not features; benefits, not features

I came to Gatchaman through BOTP, but I confess that the theme song had dropped completely out of my memory until I re-heard it a few years ago. When I first started watching the Gatch episodes, though, I did keep finding myself referring to the characters by their BOTP names instead of their Gatch names.

Though I watched BOTP first and then, afterwards, discovered Gatchaman, as I said in the other thread it did not take me long to do so! I've enjoyed Gatchaman, Gatch II and Gatch F from a tender age, watching Gatch II and Gatch F series a couple of times when they were aired on Italian Channels!

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

Great Poll UW.

Like many others so far, I started with BOTP, and it has remained with me for 30 years so much so that I created my own Universe from what I remembered. Then a few years back, as I started to learn how to navigate around computers, emails and the Web. I decided to do a search on theTV show I had based so much of my free time on only to discover it was based on something called GATCHAMAN .....

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Hi all!

I'm still BotP. Gatchaman is great, but I still prefer BotP...

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Sighhh

Why do men snore when lying on their backs?
Because their balls fall over their butt holes and they vapour lock.

I started on BoTP too, and back then, BoTP was the only series I knew about. When I was in college, though, one of my friends was deeply into comics and anime. He was the one who told me that BoTP was based on a Japanese anime series called Gatchaman. This was wayyyyy before my Gatch obsession hit, so it was just one of those pieces of info that you said "oh really? That's interesting." and kinda filed it away in the back of your head. Fast forward about 10 years, and, as James said, I was reliving my childhood by watching the Rhino BoTP releases, which has a Gatch ep on each disc. I watched that first Gatch ep, and I was hooked!! As horrified as I was to see what Zark was really like, I was that amazed at Gatch and its storyline and characters.

I still have a very soft spot in my heart for BoTP, but Gatch is the one that stole it.

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Hinotori
Eagle in Charge

Keep in mind that many of us are native English speakers, and so for us, BOTP would have been the way we first saw Gatchaman. And as James aptly pointed out, the GoS viewers are still a little too young to be nostalgic for their youth, unlike a old fogey like me.

I envy people like Marie and Saturn and Daniela who saw rel Gatchaman as kids... oh, I would have loved that! But I'm making up for it now.

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I did the third option, though it might count as Other too.

I had always heard the name G-Force here and there, but never really knew what it was about. I remember when G-Force was being shown on CN's Late night run, but I think I passed on it thinking it was just old and corny (I was a reckless teen in that whole "I'm too grown up and mature to watch most cartoons" stage)

It was then last year that Tatsunoko vs Capcom was announced that I wanted to learn about these characters (because I was honestly curious and didn't want to feel "left out" from people's appreciation of the characters). I had watched a few episodes of BotP and as corny and obvious as the edits look now, I still found the show endearing and entertaining. Unlike my teens I've become a real appreciator of all kinds of Animation.

As I familiarized myself with the series more, I found this place, and thanks to (I think) Miss T.J.'s post about a Rightstuf sale, I decided to take the plunge and buy the whole series for about $100.

As of now, I'm still in the process of catching up when I can, seen 54 episodes so far. I've really learned a LOT this past year (a huge thanks to you guys ^_^), but I try not to sound like some "Oh I've been a Gatchafan for YEARS" Poser fan (feel free to remind me whenever I start sounding like that ^^;;. Though it really does feel like that now.

I'm honestly really envious of you guys, because I'll never have that childhood appreciation of the series you guys do from "missing the boat" the first time.

Hope that, in the future, the poll could include: "Watched the movie and wanted to know its origins!"

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!