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).

Newer Gatchaman teaser from Imagi

Imagi is trying to resurrect their Gatchaman movie. There are two teasers up on their website. Wendy Dinsmore points out that they were done at different stages, so the armor looks different from one teaser to the next.

You guys know me...I'm a little freaked out by how the whole 3D thing looks on my beloved characters.

I had trouble getting each trailer to load all the way, and what I could get to load took a looonnnng time...I hope you'll have an easier time!

Gatchaman Teaser Trailer

Some clever people recorded the 45-second Gatchaman teaser trailer being shown at Anime Expo. Personally, I am SO not crazy about the way Joe looks (like, does he need Botox or what?), but has ANYBODY gotten it right since the original? I think not...

Read a little more speculation on MTV's Splash Page, or watch the teasers below:

Unique Gatchaman t-shirts for sale!

Over the past 12 years, Gatchaman fans have met at the San Diego Comicon. The mini-gathering is known as GatchaCon. And during each of those years, a unique t-shirt was created for GatchaCon goers.

Really exciting news -- the creator has some extras and is selling them to the public. These are a big deal -- people often stop us at the Cons and ask how to get one, and until now, the answer has usually been...you can't. Visit www.tatsunokousa.com/conshirts.html to see which shirts are still available and order one for yourself!