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Why Gatchaman
Apr. 15th, 2007 01:55 amHey.
After I posted my previous blog, I found that the live-action Gatchaman will be preceded by a CGI version. Unless they are one and the same. Who knows?
Anyway, I suppose I was a bigger fan of Gatchaman (when it was "Battle of the Planets", of course) than any other superhero franchise as a kid. The G-Force could do just about everything any other superhero team of the time could do--and they all were young! Believably young too, unlike so many of the Hanna-Barbera teenager heroes. The artstyle was amazing for its time. (The stuff from H-B, Filmation and the like was so FLAT by comparison.) The machines were all supercool.
So was I a Ken or a Joe? That's kind of tough to judge even now. I know I wasn't a Ryu. I suppose I was annoying enough to be a Jimpei, in all fairness.
And I didn't know what color the costumes were--or the Phoenix. I watched it all on a monochrome TV.
FP
After I posted my previous blog, I found that the live-action Gatchaman will be preceded by a CGI version. Unless they are one and the same. Who knows?
Anyway, I suppose I was a bigger fan of Gatchaman (when it was "Battle of the Planets", of course) than any other superhero franchise as a kid. The G-Force could do just about everything any other superhero team of the time could do--and they all were young! Believably young too, unlike so many of the Hanna-Barbera teenager heroes. The artstyle was amazing for its time. (The stuff from H-B, Filmation and the like was so FLAT by comparison.) The machines were all supercool.
So was I a Ken or a Joe? That's kind of tough to judge even now. I know I wasn't a Ryu. I suppose I was annoying enough to be a Jimpei, in all fairness.
And I didn't know what color the costumes were--or the Phoenix. I watched it all on a monochrome TV.
FP
