Full Gatchaman Episodes on YouTube

A YouTube user has begun posting the original Gatchaman eps in their entirety dubbed in English. They sound like the Section 23 dubs.

New Gatchaman Movie: Live Action Trailer Subbed in English

Retroboy sent me a link to the trailer with English and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. You will probably have to click the CC symbol (closed captioning) at the bottom of the movie player to turn on the appropriate subtitles.

Bonus: Retroboy also sent this link to a teaser from the now-defunct Imagi 2007 project with some different footage than you've probably seen before.

New Gatchaman Movie: Live Trailer

Check out the new live-action Gatchaman trailer. The film is scheduled to open in Japan on August 24th, 2013. Now, if only we spoke Japanese...




Thank you to retroboy for the link!

Get Subtitled Gatch II and F Episodes Free!

Interested in watching all of Gatchaman II subtitled in English? A wonderful fansubber has completed the entire series. You can download most of them from Gatchamania.net. (Or at least you should be able to until at least April or May of 2013. If you don't have a Gatchamania.net account, you may need to create one to access the thread with the fansub links.)

The first 19 episodes are not available via Gatchamania for one reason and one reason only -- we can't find a website that will store files for free that works consistently. Most of the episodes in the link above use PackUpload, but we weren't able to get the site to work well for the first 19 episodes. (Also, the links expire after 6 months if they're not being used frequently, which is why we can't guarantee they will be available after April or May of 2013.) As the person who was doing the uploading wrote:

That PackUpload site was giving me fits, which is why I wasn't able to get the rest of the GII eps up for you. It would hang right as the episode finished uploading and then refuse to give me the URL. 

Does anybody know of a site where you can upload files that will

1. Stay in place for a while
2. Be accessible through an account (no matter what I did, PackUpload wouldn't store the episodes for me in an account. I did everything it said to do, and it refused) 

I really love Dropbox, but that only provides 2 GB worth of space, and each ep is about 300-600 MB. I would be more than happy to upload all of the episodes somewhere if you guys would help me find a site to use!

If you're interested in seeing Gatchaman Fighter subbed in English, we need your help! We need a translator who speaks Japanese who is interested in helping us out! If you know someone, please have them contact me directly. My email address is on the GatchOnline Contact page.

Live Gatchaman Movie: Set Footage and Interviews

There was a little feature on the upcoming live Gatchaman movie on the Japanese morning show Zip! The clip is about 7 minutes long and it's completely in Japanese, but (for those who don't speak Japanese), it's still interesting to see the actors who have been cast and little snippets from the set. For a little more information, visit Anime News Network. The film is slated for an August 24, 2013 release in Japan.

I think the woman playing Jun is super cute -- what do you think of the cast?

Gatchaman II Lego set?

LEGO® CUUSOO lets Lego fans submit their ideas for Lego products. If a project proposal gets 10,000 votes, it has the potential to become a real Lego product. On November 1st, a Gatchaman fan submitted a Gatch II-based idea: a Lego set for each of the characters' Gatch II vehicles. Check it out, and while you're there, click the big green Support button to support the idea!

To see more, visit the creator's MOC (My Own Creation) page. You will need a free MOC account to view them.

Live Action Gatchaman Movie & Gatch I Blu-Rays

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Two interesting pieces of news:

First, Gatchaman I is being released on October 19th, 2012 in a Blu-Ray box set in Japan for retail ¥81,900 (Amazon has it for around ¥60,055). There is also a special edition Blu-Ray box set with a World Tatsunoko Memorial Visual Book (limited release).

Second...yet another possible Gatchaman movie? This live-action version is slated for release in the summer of 2013, and according to crunchyroll, filming started yesterday (October 15th, 2012). The official website is http://gatchaman-movie.jp/, though there's nothing there right now other than a graphic and links to a Twitter page (the updates are in Japanese, but you can use a tool like Google Translate -- which appears automatically if you're using Google Chrome -- to read them).