It's been a long time, but I think my first was either "Battle of the Planets", "Speed Racer" or "Space Battleship Yamoto" Can't remember which it was.
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It's been a long time, but I think my first was either "Battle of the Planets", "Speed Racer" or "Space Battleship Yamoto" Can't remember
which it was. ---

Mine would have been the US version of "Speed Racer" with "Battle..." being
a close second.



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It's been a long time, but I think my first was either "Battle of the Planets", "Speed Racer" or "Space Battleship Yamoto" Can't remember which it was.

My first was Gatchaman. My first untranslated piece that I KNEW was anime
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It's been a long time, but I think my first was either "Battle of the Planets", "Speed Racer" or "Space Battleship Yamoto" Can't remember which
it was.

My first was Gatchaman. My first untranslated piece that I KNEW was anime was "Heaven Wars: Shurato". Hence the handle and BBS!

Gatchaman was the anime that was repackaged for US consumption as "Battle of the Planets," right? I thought it could be neat to sit down sometime and watch an episode of each... the original in Gatchaman and then the BotP episode that was created from it. I hear that some of them are quite different!


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"Battle of the Planets," right? I thought it could be neat to sit down sometime and watch an episode of each... the original in Gatchaman and then the BotP episode that was created from it. I hear that some of
them are quite different!

It totally twisted my scivvies when Cartoon Network got the rights to show it and then totally changed everything. The characters names were changed, and even different voice actors.
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"Battle of the Planets," right? I thought it could be neat to sit down
sometime and watch an episode of each... the original in Gatchaman and then the BotP episode that was created from it. I hear that some of them are quite different!

It totally twisted my scivvies when Cartoon Network got the rights to show it and then totally changed everything. The characters names were changed, and even different voice actors.
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They got the rights to show which one, Gatchaman or BotP? That seems weird that they would do that to either of them, unless there was some legal reason they had to.


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They got the rights to show which one, Gatchaman or BotP? That seems weird that they would do that to either of them, unless there was some legal reason they had to.

I'm guessing BotP, though when I was first watching it on TV I'm wanting to say it was called "G-Force".
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They got the rights to show which one, Gatchaman or BotP? That seems weird that they would do that to either of them, unless there was some legal reason they had to.

I'm guessing BotP, though when I was first watching it on TV I'm wanting to say it was called "G-Force".

Yeah, that was another name for Battle of the Planets. Gatchaman was the original Japanese version of the show. When I was watching BotP/G-Force in the 1970s/80s, it had already been overdubbed and edited for US broadcast. I forget the name of the company, but the company that imported it made that decision.

They also added the scenes with the robot "narrator" that lived in the underwater "headquarters." That character was exclusive to the US repackage. Supposedly, that was done to help fill gaps in the edited story-lines and to also capitalize on the Star Wars craze. As Star Wars had R2D2 and C3PO, the importer wanted to add a robot with attitude to the BotP cast.

In addition to overdubbing the voices, several stories were changed significantly. That is why I thought it would be neat to watch an episode of one, and then the other, to see how different the stories were. There were a few episodes of Gatchaman that were not repackaged into BotP, for whatever reason, and were not shown here.


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They also added the scenes with the robot "narrator" that lived in the underwater "headquarters." That character was exclusive to the US

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They also added the scenes with the robot "narrator" that lived in the underwater "headquarters." That character was exclusive to the US

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That sounds familiar. :D

Mike

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