Many eons ago as a kid back in the 70′s my favorite after school TV show was Battle Of The Planets AKA G-Force. My siblings and schoolmates would rush home from school to watch it and do our role playing and pretend fighting afterwards. Battle Of The Planets would be my Americanized (subtitled) introduction to the fascinating and nerdy world of Japanese anime. Japanese anime as well as American comics were a huge part of my childhood. As a kid I would spend hours drawing every day and daydreaming about the cool story-lines. I credit this more than anything else to shaping my patient temperament which makes it easy to sit in front of a computer for hours and hours and hours editing. The skill-set of an artist is almost identical to those needed for editing.
Another thing about anime and comics that makes this subject particularly blog worthy is the fact that so many of these series have been or are being made into movies. I thought it would be beneficial to my audience to give this art form it’s own special category on this blog. They are making Battle of the Planets into a film slated for a 2011 release. I loved G-Force as a kid in the 70′s, but hated it when they re-released a new adaptation of the G-Force series back in the 90′s. The storyline was modified a bit and they used different voice actors. There was a certain charm that was lost in the updated version. I just don’t have the appetite for seeing it ruined again in 3D or whatever new slick application they will likely add to give it a modern twist. G-Force is vintage and should remain so. I embedded the opening credits sequence from the original American version below. If you want to pick up the 25th anniversary DVD collection you can get it on Amazon.
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I remember Zoltar. In the final episode when he was unmasked, wasn’t he a chick? I thought those lips looked too red.
Yeah I remember Zoltar, he was actually a transvestite in the original Japanese version. In the American version it was re-edited for kids. We couldn’t handle the truth. haha.