Garnet
GatchaFreak
I am a Swallow.
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Thanks for the encouragement, Ebonyswanne. I have one fic posted now at Gatchfanfic. I've got two more that I'm working on. One is a hurmor piece and the other is a angsty, tradgedy. For some reason, I love to torture, in some way, the characters I love the most. Evil, I know.
I agree, UnpublishedWriter. When I checked veoh last night, they had not removd any more eps, but I have a bad feeling that they're going to. God, makes me really wish I had a region-free DVD player.
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11-04-2010 12:49
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Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
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Gatchaman (105 episodes) was altered into BOTP and G-Force (two separate shows about a decade apart).
Gatchaman II (52 episodes) and Gatchaman Fighter (48 episodes) followed a few years later. They were never transalated into English, and most people here haven't seem much of them, and only a select few have seen all of them. Both of these programs were used for Eagle Riders, an Americanized version of the show (similar to BOTP and G-Force).
Just before Gatchaman II was released in Japan, Japanese movie theatres ran a 'Gatchaman' movie, which is almost entirely comprised of clips from regular Gatchaman episodes. It was basically a summary of the main plot points of the first series (Red Impulse and the ending of the series) so that viewers could be reminded before they watched Gatchaman II (It had been a few years and this was in an era where people didn't have VCRs).
The OAV was Tsatsunoko's attempt to revive the Gatchaman franchise, and it failed miserably. It's beautiful, but the character development is practically nil. There are only three 'episodes'.
The radio program/dram was in Japanese, and was also released shortly before Gatchaman II aired. It is entirely in Japanese, and was supposed to explain what happened between series I and series II. I may be wrong, but i think the only person around here who knows anything about those is James, our Gatch Guru.
HTH!
P.S. Littlewolf, is 'dancing in the rain' a Wild boys reference? 
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12-04-2010 13:47
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tatsunokofan
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Hi all!
| quote: | | It is entirely in Japanese, and was supposed to explain what happened between series I and series II. |
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Actually, the main purpose of the radio drama was the same as the Gatchaman movie, to remind people of the series and what happened in it before the start of Gatchaman II. There is a single episode of it that acts as a bridge between the two series, not the entire series. The other episodes of the series consisted of adaptations of episodes from the first series (#'s 1, 20, 11, 52~52 (Condensed into one episode), 101 and 103~105 (All four condensed into one episode), aired in that order), three parody episodes, two stories created by fans in a "You Write Gatchaman" contest (Both done in one episode), and radio versions of the stories that would become Gatchaman II episodes (Episode #'s 1~2 (Done as one episode), 3, 4, 5, and 7). The last episode was a roundtable discussion between the actors about doing the radio drama and about the upcoming Gatchaman II TV series.
| quote: | | The OAV was Tsatsunoko's attempt to revive the Gatchaman franchise, and it failed miserably. |
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It really wasn't an attempt to "revive the franchise." Rather, it was part of a string of made-for-video revivals of the classic Tatsunoko heroes that were made by Tatsunoko for Nippon Columbia. Gatchaman had been preceeded by a four volume Casshan OAV series, and was followed up by a two volume Hurricane Polymer OAV series (Tekkaman was left out because Tekkaman Blade had already handled that character). All three of these series were intended from the start to be self-contained, and the advertising for them told you exactly how many volumes there were going to be before the first one was even released. There were no plans to continue any of them beyond what we saw.
While none of these were huge breakout successes, they did prove commercially viable and financially profitable for Nippon Columbia, so they did succeed in their intent. Where they "failed" was in impressing fans of the original TV series, who found the OAVs to be lacking in many of the aspects that attracted them to the TV series in the first place. On the other hand, the flashiness of the OAV versions, the Gatchaman one in particular, have proven quite popular with people who are unfamiliar with the TV series (For example, it's pretty obvious from what we saw that the OAVs, as well as the NTT commercials, were a major influence on the visual look that Imagi was going for in their Gatchaman movie).
And, if you want to add to the list of Gatchaman appearances, there were two episodes of Gatchaman that were shown in movie theaters in the summer and winter of 1973 as part of the Toho Champion Festival. These festivals consisted of a roughly 3 hour block of episodes from then-airing kids TV shows and a condensed version of a Toho monster movie, and were shown during the times kids were on vacation from school. Gatchaman #22 was shown during the summer, and Gatchaman #37 was shown during the winter.
James
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