Gatchaman - Episode 6 "The Great Mini Robot Operation"

While Galactor use mini-robots to steal gold? Of course!

Curated by Christopher Belz

Total Runtime: 0:22:10

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Sun, Oct 1

Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

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.

06	"The Great Mini-Robot Operation" "Mini Robotto Dai Sakusen" (ミニ・ロボット大作戦)
Gold bars are stolen from the vault of the World Bank. It is the deed of Galactor's Mini Robots. The Science Ninja Team gets its instructions and starts a search on the islands in the vicinity of the place where gold bars seem to have been taken. Joe makes sure that Ken, Jun, and Jinpei, in civilian wear, attract the enemy's attention and get taken off to the base. He proposes that if this is the headquarters, it should be destroyed right away. However, Nambu stops him by saying it's not the Science Ninja Team's duty to attack. Joe leaves a bored Ryu behind in the God Phoenix on the bottom of the sea and sneaks into the base in order to prepare for retaking of the gold bars. While Ken and the other create a lot of confusion in the interior of the base, Joe goes looking for the gold bars. He learns that a missile is about to be fired at the God Phoenix when it is detected by the surveillance cameras. He contacts Ryu in the God Phoenix immediately Ryu, who is always on stand-by, is taking a nap, although he manages to evade the missile by a hair's breadth. With Joe's guidance, they store the stolen gold bars in the God Phoenix's interior. Ken and the others are contacted and escape from the base. Galactor destroys the base and all its inhabitants because of the missing gold bars.

Gatchaman - Episode 6 "The Great Mini Robot Operation"

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