There are tons of purists who prefer the original series, and that’s totally understandable. They all wore bird costumes, which appeared on their bodies when they swung a wrist communicator (early Apple Watch?) and said, “Transmute!” The costumes, complete with wings would appear, and their vehicles would change as well, as they were all taken up onto the ship The Phoenix, which could change to a fiery bird form. OK, so we have a gang of very attractive young people who fight space crime. They also cut out a lot more, including civilian deaths, and Zark would explain that the people had been evacuated when we saw destruction. Zoltar was from the planet Spectra and reported to The Great Spirit, the ruler of Spectra.
They were created by merging twins in the Japanese version, giving Katse both male and female forms, but post-translation, Zoltar’s female forms were split into other characters, including his sister.
Japanese cartoon making love series#
The big bad of the series was Zoltar (named Berg Katse in the original series). Tiny’s family, present in the original, didn’t exist. We lost Jason/Joe’s backstory, and Keyop was changed to a genetically engineered child with the odd speech. The Ready Room where the gang would chill out together was added, and there was some new music. There were actually a lot of changes from the original series. She was the girlfriend who lived in Canada of this series. He had a love interest called Susan who lived on Pluto, but who we never saw.
He was really there to give a sort of narration which covered the things they cut out from the original Japanese cartoon, a common trope in early American translations of anime. They were all coordinated by a robot who loved and worried about them called 7-Zark-7, who lived a mostly solitary existence in an underwater outpost off the coast of California called Center Neptune, accompanied by a little robot dog named 1-Rover-1. Somewhere in my head, Mark became Luke Skywalker, Jason became Han Solo, Keyop became R2-D2, Tiny became C-3PO (sort of), and Princess was, of course, Leia. The Force Five team consisted of Mark, the leader (voiced by Ken Washio in the original Japanese series), Jason, the hotheaded second in command (Joe Asakura), Princess (Jun), the engineer, Keyop (Jinpei), the young kid who had a series of beeps and clicks in his speech patterns, and Tiny Harper (Ryu Nakanishi), the pilot.
Japanese cartoon making love tv#
This is set in the future where, apparently, Earth gives away resources, so why would anyone steal them? Seriously, this is a plot in the first episode of the American series adaptation. Of course, there was only one girl in the group of guys, but back then, that was business as usual, and something we’d already seen in Star Wars, among many other films and TV series.īattle of the Planets: Episode 1: "Attack of the Space Terrapin" From the intro with the trumpet music and old-timey voiceover, we learned that the show told the tale of five young orphans who were trained almost from birth to battle the forces of evil from other planets. The series was totally engrossing, especially for young geeks. For many kids, it was their first glimpse at the vibrant world of Japanese animation. You probably also watched Battle of the Planets.īattle of the Planets premiered in September of 1978 and was the first English-language adaptation of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, a popular anime. You pretended those metal structures at the playground were spaceships. You wanted the giant Millennium Falcon toy that nobody had enough money for.
If you were a kid in the late '70s then you likely had Star Wars fever, meaning that anything space-related was a big deal in your life.
0 kommentar(er)
