Hi all! Just so you'll know, both Gatchaman and Gatchaman Fighter are currently being shown as reruns on Japanese satellite channels. Gatchaman is being shown remastered in HD on the Cartoon Network and Gatchaman Fighter is being shown on the Fuji TV One satellite channel. In case anyone cares to look at them, both networks have created web pages for the shows. The Cartoon Network page for Gatchaman can be found here: http://www.cartoon.co.jp/cn_programs/view/00043 The Fuji TV One page for Gatchaman Fighter can be found here: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/otn/b_hp/910200140.html They're not much to look at, but it's nice to know they're there. James

Thank you James. Now if only they could return to American TV. BTW: I seem to have problems with the second link in Safari, but it does seem to work in Firefox. Lets see if any other Mac users experience this problem.

Originally posted by clouddancer Thank you James. Now if only they could return to American TV. BTW: I seem to have problems with the second link in Safari, but it does seem to work in Firefox. Lets see if any other Mac users experience this problem.

Yes & get rid of gay cartoons like Total drama world tour & edd ed & eddy that shit its so gay.

Looks like there's something we agree on for once, LG. And I didn't know they had Cartoon Network in Japan.

Thanks for posting this information and the links, James! You're right, it's great to see the sites.

ITA...wish they would show it again in the US! Thanks for showing us, James!

Oohhhhh!!! Lucky! Lucky lucky lucky! I TOTALLY agree with ladygalactor about those stupid shows. The only show coming out of CN lately that I've liked is the Ben 10 series. And I'm starting to think they're beating that into the ground. If you wiki Cartoon Network, you'll see that each country has its own version.

Thanks for the links, James! For the heck of it, I ran them through Google translate. Heh, who knew that Joe was a "nihilist grandstander," or that Galactor is also known as "Gyarakuta"?

'Southern Doctor'? An exact translation from the Japanese for Nambu Hakushi! This is why 'translation programs' will be inadequate for years to come.

So Jun's last name is Shiratori! And Jinpei's last name is Tsubame! And I didn't know Leader X was really Mr. X.

Hi all!

BotP tanked on the channel, which may be why more episodes weren't aired

The reason why they only aired that small selection of episodes was because those were the only episodes that had been remastered from the 1" reel to reel tapes that Sandy Frank had archived.

or that Galactor is also known as "Gyarakuta"?

That's the phonetic transliteration of the way Gallactor is spelled in Katakana.

So Jun's last name is Shiratori! And Jinpei's last name is Tsubame!

No, they're not. Shiratori is one of the Japanese words for "Swan" (The more common form is "Hakucho," but Jun used "Shiratori") and "Tsubame" is one of the Japanese words for Swallow (Another is "Tsubakuro," which is what Jinpei use). James

Thanks for the links, James, and for your Google translation, LB! I so wish I could have been able to watch Japanese satellite channels!!! I've tried to find them again knowing, from the start, that the effort would have been all in vain!!

Hi all!

At the time of the Boomerang airing, me and several others also believed that the reason only 20 eps aired was because those were close to the amount available on U.S DVD at the time

That was exactly it. The episodes that had been prepared by Rhino (The first 24 BotP episodes and Invasion of Space Center) were the only epiosdes that were used on Boomerang because they were the only episodes on something other than 1" masters. Neither Boomerang nor Sandy Frank were going to spend any money preparing additional episodes, so those were all they had to air.

What's the deal exactly with BotP's prints? Were the prints poorly preserved or damaged, or was it simply age that wore them down?

No, the original film prints actually look very, very good. I have film prints for most of the series, and the vibrancy and clarity can be stunning. The problem with the BotP episodes released onto DVD is that they were remastered from the 1" tape masters that Sandy Frank had produced and archived in the 1980s. This set was done with little care for quality control, hence the fuzzyness of the video as well as all the visible imperfections that came from the well worn syndication prints that were used. Heck, the Zark sequence in the middle of "Siege of the Squids" isn't even the correct one! It was taken from "Raid of the Space Octopus!" What the series really needed was to be completely remastered directly from film prints, but that cost money that Sandy Frank wasn't going to spend.

I think one of the reasons why GoS's prints have held up better is because it was produced on tape, according to a convo I had with Jason.

Yes, G-Force was produced from Beta SP masters. There are no "prints" to speak of for G-Force, only videotape masters. James

Thanks for the info and the links James. Yet another reason why I would love to go to Japan! LB, those translations are hysterical! I love that Ken has a "burning hot heart of justice." Nice. CloudD - I'm using safari and the links seem to work okay for me. They work on firefox, too.

Those translations are awesome, LB! And I love that Ken is described as the 'burning hot heart of justice'!

Hi all! Less mechanically translated, that sentence should read more along the lines of, "Burning with the heart of hot justice, he is the Leader of the Science Ninja Team." More colloquially and less literally, it should be along the lines of, "His heart burning with a passion for justice, he is the Leader of the Science Ninja Team." Translation programs can be helpful tools, but you still need a human looking at the original to properly edit what they come up with. James

Originally posted by tatsunokofan Hi all! No, the original film prints actually look very, very good. I have film prints for most of the series, and the vibrancy and clarity can be stunning. The problem with the BotP episodes released onto DVD is that they were remastered from the 1" tape masters that Sandy Frank had produced and archived in the 1980s. This set was done with little care for quality control, hence the fuzzyness of the video as well as all the visible imperfections that came from the well worn syndication prints that were used. Heck, the Zark sequence in the middle of "Siege of the Squids" isn't even the correct one! It was taken from "Raid of the Space Octopus!" James

I noticed that little thing when I did my review of 'Siege of the Squids' off the Veoh site. Zark's talking about problems with the Phoenix, when there weren't any.

Ohhhhh, but James, sometimes it is much more fun to take the literal translation. If we didn't then we would have nothing to laugh at or complain about. Thank you though for the more colloquial translation though.

I'm with CD> I appreciate the correct translation, but sometimes the 'automated' one is more fun...

LB, that translation is hilarious! It's fun to see what comes up when you allow the computer to take control!

Originally posted by tatsunokofan Translation programs can be helpful tools, but you still need a human looking at the original to properly edit what they come up with. James

Definitely! I used Google translate on some articles, in Chinese, about Imagi's situation back in February and while I could follow the gist of what the articles were saying, the phrasing and vocabulary that google came up with was peculiar. I've had somwhat better results using google to translate Spanish to English -maybe the more related the two languages are, the better google is able to translate one to the other. I also confess I enjoy the odd translations that google comes up with. I'm still wondering what the original Japanese was that got translated by google as "nihilist grandstander," and what words a proper translator would have used.

Hi all! That sentence for Joe should read, "At first glace, he seems like a nihilist who rushes into grandstand plays, but his heart cares for his companions more than anyone." James

Not having seen Gatachman II or F, just going from the three different versions of the original that I have seen. I would argue that there is nothing about the Condor that makes him seem like a nihilist not even a grandstander.