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Gatchaman Collector's Box 1 (Vols. 1-2)
starring: Katsuji Mori, Isao Sasaki, Kazuko Sugiyama, Yoku Shioya, Shingo Kanemoto
directed by: Fumio Kurokawa, Hisayuki Toriumi, Masami Anô

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781413911985
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1413911986
Label: Adv Films
Manufacturer: Adv Films
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Adv Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Running Time: 300 minutes
Studio: Adv Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1979-11
Sales Rank: 46456

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Gatchaman Collector's Box 2 (Vols. 3 & 4)

Gatchaman Collector's Box 3 (Vols. 4, 5 & 6)

Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
As Battle of the Planets (syndication, 1978), the Japanese series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (1972) helped to build an audience for anime in America. For Battle, the original 105 episodes were recut to 85, with much of the violence deleted from the fight scenes. New animation featuring the comic robot 7-Zark-7 linked what remained. Turner Broadcasting recut the series into 85 different episodes, restoring much of the violence and eliminating Zark for G-Force (Cartoon Network, 1995). The Gatchaman collections present the series in its original form.

Five teen-age adventurers--Ken the Eagle, Jun the Swan, Ryu the Owl, Jinpei the Swallow, and Joe the Condor--make up the Science Ninja Team. Dressed in bird suits, these stalwart heroes fight the Galactor Group, an evil cabal bent on conquering the world. Galactor henchmen use mecha monsters to steal uranium, hurl meteors at the Earth, interrupt air travel, and, incongruously, capture the world's supply of sugar. The Ninja Scientists thwart these nefarious schemes.

Gatchaman shows its age, not only in details like Ken's shoulder-length hair and bell-bottoms, but in the stolid pacing, minimal character development, and rudimentary special effects. Gen-Xers who grew up on Battle of the Planets will love this uncut version. Among the extras are "karaoke" episodes (the dialogue appears only in subtitles, so the viewers can supply the voices) and scenes of six actors auditioning for Ken, including Leraldo Anzaldua, who got the part. (Rated TV PG, suitable for ages 8 and older: violence, occasional grotesque imagery, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Classic Cartoon!
I was a huge fan of Battle of the Planets as a kid, but of course I never realised at the time that it was a cut down version of a Japanese classic with strange robots thrown in! I was keen to see the original uncut version, 'Gatchaman' so I ordered the first few collectors sets.
BOTP was always a great show and still watchable from a purely nostalgic point of view, but Gatchaman is a completely different show. It is more adult in tone, and nasty things do happen - there is no 7-Zark-7 to explain that the squadron of fighter aircraft that has been destroyed were 'only robot fighters'. I have watched most of the episodes with the American dub, which is very good, and the voices do grow on you; Berg Katse (aka Zoltar) does take some getting used to, and some of the Galactor commanders ... Read More

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- Gatchaman or G-Force Battles for the Planet
Wow! Here it is. Gatchaman aired in Japan in 1972 and is one of the early greats of anime. Many of us remember rushing home at lunch hour to watch "Ken", "Jason", "Princess", "Keyop" and "Tiny" in the watered-down American variant called Battle of the Planets. Battle of the Planets cut down the adult themes and took great pains to cut out the violence, which it replaced with poorly drawn scenes featuring a retarded R2D2 clone called 7-Zark-7 and his pet dog, 1-Rover-1. The result was a much lesser, but still entertaining, hack job. ADV Films has taken great pains to translate and voice the original Gatchaman as it was meant to be seen (and was originally seen, in Japan). This set is comprised of two discs of episodes, #1 through #12, and a Special Features disc. This is a great set, and ... Read More

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- More like a Question...
Hello all, I am more like asking Questions about this two box-sets than reviewing... I grew up watching the Mandarin-dubbed version of this great cartoon, I saw a total of 3 seasons-1st season they have the main ship called the "Phoenix" and it looks like an ordinary futuristic "dagger-shapped" spaceship; In the 2nd season, the "New Phoenix" looks like an eagle/falcon with a head and a beak, wings in a folded manner...; In the last and final 3rd season, they don't have a main ship, but instead their 5 main vehicles combine to form a triangular-pyramidal shape ship...

So my question is, which season is this box set?? I don't really like the 1st season, but the 2nd and 3rd is quite awesome!

So someone please enlighten me! Thanks!!

Cheers

Rating:

- Great!
All waht is said before this is very true. It is a great show and finally after 20 I can watch it uncut the way it was shown in Japanese. The Great thing is we should finally see the last episodes where Zoltar dies!
I just like to add that you get 12 episodes and actually get 3 DVD's in this Box set. 2 + 1 Bonus, and the bonus is outstanding.

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- good stuff
This is something I thought I'd never see, the planned release of every Gatchaman episode unedited.

I watched the first few episodes in Japanese but I decided to get lazy and switch to the dubbed version, which isn't that bad. I think the worst voiceover is for Berg Katse, the main bad guy. They make him sound almost like Paul Lynde. I think the idea was to riff on his sexual ambiguity or something but it comes off sounding too 60s Batman style campy. But I will always remember Keye Luke's vocal performance in Battle of the Planets as definitive.

The extras on these DVDs focus around the english voiceacting. More thought and effort went into that than I thought.

The translation seems okay, but they throw in some slang every now and then "dynomite!!". ... Read More

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