Blu Rays, in hand and viewed
I admit, I have not yet watched ALL of Gatchaman on Blu Ray. But I have completed 2 discs on Blu Ray, and spot checked others.
The good news is, if you want Gatchaman with the best image quality available, this is the set to buy.
The bad news is, if you hate Sentai's subtitle font on other releases (they are GIGANTIC because they use their old DVD subs I believe), that hasn't changed. The other bad news is the extras. What's wrong with the extras?
1) Not all of the extras from the original DVD releases are included. Where is the translated Manga they had? Gone, that's where.
2) 1080p. S T R E T C H E D from SD sources. Yes, they cropped this into a 16x9 format. Graphics look ugly, people look fat. Why did they do that here, in the extras, but left the original video intact? I'm not sure, maybe they assume no one cares about the extras like they would the series proper?
If you can live with stretched extras, some of the original DVD...
The Best, but is it upgrade worthy?
For some reason Best Buy shipped this to me sooner than the tenth of December. So I will go ahead and review this.
First this is the unedited Gatchaman, known mostly in the United States as "Battle of the Planets" or "G-Force: Guardians of Space".
This unedited edition contains all 105 unedited dubbed episodes. It has wonderful dub work and the voice actors seem to fit the characters rather well. I have no complaints about the dubbing. I can say it's a lot better voice work than "Battle of the Planets" which made Jinpei a babbling idiot.
What does unedited mean? Simply put, it really is nothing more than what you saw on "Battle of the Planets" or "G-force", however, this unedited edition of the show does not sugar coat death. Soldiers of the evil organization the team fights die, unlike the other shows passing them off as robots or the deaths are just softened. Also the issue of Transgenderism is taken out of the show all together in both...
Absolutely Addicting! Perfect Collection!
I remember watching Battle of the Planets when I was a child and understood much later that the show was edited which included ridiculous scenes of a robot who was never originally there to begin with. So brings the reality of Gatchaman! Having bought some bootleg DVD sets in the past, this OFFICIAL BLU-RAY release is the ONLY way to go! I usually consider myself a purist and prefer to watch the show in its original Japanese language with the English subtitles, but the newly created English language track is fantastic and the voices appropriately match the characters spot on (not the English dub crap that was in Battle of the Planets).
Both Japanese and English tracks are included here with optional English subtitles. For sound quality, the Japanese track seems to sound weak and loses depth, whereas the English track sounds full and rich. For this reason, I watch Gatchaman in English.
The video quality is superb! Many of the scenes look as if it was produced...
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