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Hola James, This is awesome! I hope we will have the chance to enjoy it in English (it would be too much to ask for it in Spanish) Any idea if the producer will have any America release? Thank you so much for sharing!

Hi all! As of now, no one has announced obtaining the rights to release the series on home video in America. However, that usually doesn't happen until a series is on the air, or immediately before. Before (Or concurrently to) that happening, we should be hearing about a legal streaming service that will be carrying the series, with English subtitles, as it airs in Japan. Those deals are always finalized last minute, but with just over three weeks before the broadcast premiere, it's getting to be last minute enough! These services can take several different forms. Crunchyroll and Funimation are the largest, and they offer their paid subscribers access to the latest episodes of the series they carry literally as they are being broadcast in Japan. For people without paid subscriptions, these episodes become free to view a week later, after the next episode has aired. Services like Amazon Prime or Hulu offer the same type of simulcasting of episodes as Crunchyroll and Funimation, but you must be a paid subscriber to watch any of their material, even after the next episodes have aired. Netflix is another pay-to-watch service, but doesn't offer simulcasts. Instead, they wait until the series has finished airing in Japan, then release the entire series all at once, aiming for the binge watching crowd. I'm sure there are others I've forgotten, but as of right now, these are the major players in the anime streaming service game. I'm hoping that Crunchyroll or Funimation get Infini-T Force, so people can see it without being forced to subscribe to a particular service. A major caveat regarding these services are that they only cover the United States, and possibly Canada. For people in other parts of the world, you will need to check the streaming services with anime options in your area to see if they will be carrying the series. This lack of international coverage has led to a number of groups that provide free, but definitely not legal, torrent streams of the shows, copied from the legal services within hours of their being released. Sites like nyaa.si and anidex.info can provide links to some of these, if you are otherwise shut out from viewing the series and wish to use them. Those same sites also offer links to torrents of those shows with subtitles in languages other than English, either taken from legal streaming services in those regions or created by fans in non-English speaking countries who have translated the English subtitles into their native language for their fellow fans to watch. If Infini-T Force is not legally streaming in any Spanish-speaking countries, or if those legal streaming services are not available where you live, this may be your best option to view the series with Spanish language subtitles. Let me be clear that I am not trying to encouraging people to use the illegal torrent options. I'd highly recommend using a legal, licensed service to view the series. I'm only mentioning the other options to give a more complete answer. James

Thanks for the info, James. Are all of the heros completely unrecognizable in their civilian appearances? :/ Or are we Gatch fans just special?

Hi all!

Originally posted by ChrisW Are all of the heros completely unrecognizable in their civilian appearances? :/ Or are we Gatch fans just special?

I posted images of the other characters for comparison in this thread: http://gatchamania.net/thread.php?threadid=5463&sid= As I noted there, people make complaints regarding the civilian versions of the characters when the OAVs were released back in 1994. Heck, the earliest organized Battle of the Planets fans were complaining about the Gatchaman II civilian clothes back when we first saw them in 1979! So, criticizing any sort of redesigning is a very old tradition. James

Originally posted by ChrisW Are all of the heroes completely unrecognizable in their civilian appearances? :/ Or are we Gatch fans just special?

Having looked at the website and the thread James posted, I suspect Ken got off lightly, albeit it appears he has undergone brain surgery to remove his ability to accessorise effectively, poor lamb.

Originally posted by tatsunokofan As I noted there, people make complaints regarding the civilian versions of the characters when the OAVs were released back in 1994. Heck, the earliest organized Battle of the Planets fans were complaining about the Gatchaman II civilian clothes back when we first saw them in 1979! So, criticizing any sort of redesigning is a very old tradition. James

I responded to the images in another thread. I'm sure people did complain. However, to me, at least the characters are recognizable and got a change of clothes, LOL. I liked that in the later series you'd sometimes see them in entirely different clothing from their civilian uniforms!

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl Having looked at the website and the thread James posted, I suspect Ken got off lightly, albeit it appears he has undergone brain surgery to remove his ability to accessorise effectively, poor lamb.

Hehe. I totally get that they had to make enough changes so that the characters didn't all basically look like Ken, but it would have been nice if Ken was even a little bit himself.