I remember watching this on TV when I was younger and being a huge fan and this was my start into anime in general. To my 10 year old eyes the stories were tense, action packed and something really new. And I carried that with me long after I had stopped watching it.
Since then I've discovered the original Gatchaman this was based off of and need to say this is a pale imitation of the original. Not only was the whole space thing really overplayed, due of course to "Star Wars" being really hot during that time. But any time you saw somebody die, they didn't really die or they were a robot or something happened. Even the baddies in this, Spectra, were polite enough to warn of their attacks so people were able to evacuate the cities. To make up for this material that was left on the cutting room floor they needed to add some new material and so they created new characters, new scenes which looked really cheap in comparison to the original material and Battle of the Planets was born.
It's not really a bad show and I'll admit that the opening still gives me goosebumps all these years later. But it's just not what I would call a good show. If you're interested check out the original this was based off of. It's much better.
Since then I've discovered the original Gatchaman this was based off of and need to say this is a pale imitation of the original. Not only was the whole space thing really overplayed, due of course to "Star Wars" being really hot during that time. But any time you saw somebody die, they didn't really die or they were a robot or something happened. Even the baddies in this, Spectra, were polite enough to warn of their attacks so people were able to evacuate the cities. To make up for this material that was left on the cutting room floor they needed to add some new material and so they created new characters, new scenes which looked really cheap in comparison to the original material and Battle of the Planets was born.
It's not really a bad show and I'll admit that the opening still gives me goosebumps all these years later. But it's just not what I would call a good show. If you're interested check out the original this was based off of. It's much better.