Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

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科学忍者隊ガッチャマン (Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman)
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

Genre	Adventure, science fiction,mecha
TV anime
Directed by	Hisayuki Toriumi
Produced by	Ippei Kuri
Written by	Jinzo Toriumi
Music by	Bob Sakuma
Studio	Tatsunoko Productions
Licensed by	A.D. Vision
Network	Fuji TV
Original run	October 1, 1972 –September 29, 1974^[1]
Episodes	105 (List of episodes)
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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (科学忍者隊ガッチャマン Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman^?) is a 5-member superhero team that is composed of the main characters in several Japanese anime created by Tatsuo Yoshida and originally produced in Japan by Tatsunoko Productions and later adapted into several English-language versions. It is also known by the abbreviated name Gatchaman.

The original series, produced in 1972, was eponymously named Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and is most well known to the English-speaking world as the adaptation titled Battle of the Planets. The title is unofficially called G-Force (not to be confused with the subsequent 1980s English-language adaptation ofGatchaman, known as G-Force: Guardians of Space). Tatsunoko also uses the official translation Science Commando Gatchaman, as shown in numerous related products and media.

The original 1972 Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman series was followed by two sequel series, Gatchaman II (1978) and Gatchaman Fighter (1979). In 1994, the original series was remade as a condensed OVA series (see Gatchaman (OVA)). Additionally, the original and sequel series were adapted and translated into several English-language versions, with the most well known being Battle of the Planets. Because the English-language versions are notoriously inconsistent not only with one another but also with the original Japanese series, viewers most familiar with the English versions often experience some confusion upon re-examining the series after a long hiatus.

The first feature film was released in 1978. A second feature film version of Gatchaman had been in production by Imagi Animation Studios for release in 2012, but was ultimately canceled due to the studio's financial problems.

05	"The Ghost Fleet From Hell" "Jigoku no Yūrei Kantai" (地獄の幽霊艦隊)
Ocean-going ships from the ISO keep disappearing. It always happens in the vicinity of a place called the Cemetery of the Sea. Director Andāson and Nambu ask the Science Ninja Team to go to a base on the ocean floor that is most likely to be struck next. The Science Ninja Team gets Nambu's message and takes the God Phoenix toward the base at the bottom of the sea. Then the team encounters a mysterious submarine, which leads them to the Cemetery of the Sea, where they see countless sunken ships.But when Joe says that all the ships are actually battleships, Ken gets suspicious and has the God Phoenix surface. There's fog everywhere on the surface, and from the middle of the fog, a ghost fleet attacks the team, but they guess correctly that the fog is man-made. The team destroys the device that's creating the fog, but from the ghost fleet appear countless disks that attack them using light rays. The Science Ninja Team has to fight a hard battle. Just when all the missiles are used up and they don't know what to do, three red planes appear and shoot down the enemy machines using superior flying techniques. The commander of the fighter plane unit introduces himself to the baffled Science Ninja Team as Reddo Imparusu. He then flies away, leaving the words "we'll meet again" behind.

Gatchaman - Episode 5 "The Ghost Fleet from Hell"

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