I've never seen the original Gatchaman, but along with the original versions of "Starblazers" and "Speed Racer", that's not unusual for an American viewer...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@lycos.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2009 8:05:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe Keith, the guy who posted the link there is *very* new to anime (he'd just taken in "Akira" for the first time earlier this year), and only knew it as "G-Force". One of my godchildren, born and raised in England, went to Japan when his parents were posted there, and had his world rocked when he first saw "Gatchaman" as Deity intended. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe Date : Sat, 8 Aug 2009 06:28:34 +0000 (UTC) >From : Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Yeah, and for the record, I know that "G-Force" is the Americanized name of the Gatchaman team, based on the Americanized, watered-down "Battle of the Planets", which differs in major ways from the original Japanese anime. For example, Seven-Zark-Seven was created for the Americanized version in order to pad out the length, after all the objectionable, more adult Japanese stuff was cut. And I think even aspects of Keeops (sp?) were changed as well. The comic that was released in the last couple of years was pretty good... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 9:18:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe Keith, you're *not* alone there. In another of my forums, a fellow anime fan posted a link to what he thought was a trailer for the new "G-Force" movie, apparently without looking at the trailer. I was the first in the group to watch it, and seeing talking hamsters was a shock to the system. (For the record, there *is* an anime Gatchaman movie rolling out soon. There are some cool pics previewed at io9, but the site appears to be on vacation, so I can't link to them. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe Date : Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:39:41 +0000 (UTC) >From : Keith Johnson To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com So that means i'm the only one who keeps thinking the movie "G-Force" should be about a bunch of teens with winged birdlike costumes who can fly and have wild weapons and a cool airship/spaceship? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:09:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe That's how it works. If it "didn't happen after you were born it doesn't exist." On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: I'd like to think everyone knew that--but I guess I'll have to settle for people realizing there were toys before the TV cartoon! ----- Original Message ----- From: "ravenadal" < ravena...@yahoo.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:20:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover G.I. Joe existed over twenty years before Hasbro remade him as a literal boy-toy. Shoot, the movie "The Story of G.I. Joe," starring Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith, came out in 1945, a full eighteen years before Hasbro created the "11 1/2 inch realistic action figures" "Rocky" and "Ace." Who knew? ~rave! http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-gijoe-html,0,445585.htmlpage -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds